Anatomy
Bugs and Bug Juice
Vascular Potpourri
Vascular Rhyme Time
Vascular Before and After
400
This structure lies medial to the femoral vessels, thus creating one border of the femoral canal
What is the lacunar ligament?
400
This feature of Staphylococcus epidermidis makes it resistant to many antibiotics and thus a problem for vascular prostheses
What is biofilm production?
400
Once called "one of the greatest public health catastrophes" of the 20th century in the Surgeon General's semicentennial report, this risk factor is especially important to vascular surgeons due to its role in arterial occlusive disease and aneurysm formation
What is smoking?
400
Supplier to the axillary artery is of, relating to, or derived from birds
What is avian subclavian?
400
American discount chain is also known as a transtibial excision
Five Below knee amputation
800
When performing an extra-anatomic bypass, this artery is most commonly used as the donor site
(be specific, including laterality)
What is the RIGHT axillary artery?
using the right side keeps the left flank available for a retroperitoneal exposure
800
Mechanism of action for rifampin
What is inhibition of RNA polymerase?
800
The Society For Vascular Surgery created and published this classification system in 2014 with the major categories of wound, ischemia and foot infection
What is the WIFi classification?
800
Abbreviated arterial supply below the knee is grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence
What is pop crop?
800
HMG-coenzyme A reductase inhibitor with the trade name Zocor is the southern most borough of New York City
What is Simva-Staten Island?
1200
Some hypothesize that rupture of these blood vessel suppliers leads to the development of intramural hematomas
What are vaso vasorum?
1200
When monitoring therapeutic levels of antibiotics, the dose frequency should be decreased if this value is too high
What is the trough?
1200
First discovered by second year medical student, Jay McLean at Johns Hopkins University, heparin gets its name because it was originally isolated from this specific animal body part
What is dog liver?
1200
Elongated ringed scissors with varying angles can be square, loose, or used to create a slip or hitch.
What are Potts knots?
1200
Non-invasive test that uses high-frequency sound waves to evaluate blood flow is well known for his podcast that bears his name, as well as his work at Drexel and MIT in computer science and electrical engineering
Who is DupLex Fridman?
1600
This represents the most common vascular ring
What is a double aortic arch?
1600
In 1928, while studying the influenza virus, this pioneer noted a zone of inhibition around a colony of Penicillium notatum that grew serendipitously on a plate of Staphylococcus, thus leading to the development of penicillin
Who is Sir Alexander Fleming?
1600
First described by its namesake Hulusi in 1937, this syndrome is characterized by autoimmune vasculitis, mucocutaneous ulcerations and chronic relapsing uveitis
What is Behçet disease?
1600
Southwestern European ethnic group characterized by their own language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians organizes patients with PAD based on severity and type of treatment
What is Basque TASC?
1600
The animated Belcher family suffers from thromboangiitis obliterans
What is Bob's Buerger disease?
2000
This anatomical postulation proposes a mechanical system to explain the physics of blunt aortic rupture where the long arm is the proximal aorta and aortic arch, the short arm is the aortic isthmus, and the great vessels serve as a fulcrum
What is the Archimedes Lever Hypothesis?
2000
This virulence factor produced by some strains of the most common bacteria found in early graft infections causes leukocyte lysis and tissue necrosis
What is Panton-Valentine leukocidin?
2000
A properly created end-to-side anastomosis resembles this shape in the animal kingdom
What is a cobra head?
2000
A variant vascular arcade between the dorsal pancreatic and right gastroepiploic arteries is a German shoe manufacturer known for its sandals and other shoes with contoured cork footbeds
What are Kirk's Birks?
2000
Factor Xa inhibitor chronicles the history of "Easy" company of the 101st Airborne Division in a miniseries directed by Steven Spielberg
What is apixa-Band of Brothers?