Pain (cramping or aching) that occurs due to a chronic decrease in arterial blood flow to the nerves of the feet.
What is Claudication?
Vessels with the greatest resistance?
Arterioles
Direct connection between two blood vessels of similar size is called what?
What is anastomosis?
Used to keep the blood from clotting during vascular surgery.
What is heparin?
What is a surgery that vascular surgeons can perform to reestablish blood flow in peripheral arteries?
Peripheral vascular bypass, angioplasty, atherectomy.
Hoarseness/Cough are symptoms of this type of aneurysm.
What is Thoracic Ascending Aneurysm?
Bonus question: What nerve compression causes hoarseness?
Artery that is commonly affected in patients with strokes
Carotid Artery
The ABI measures for what vascular related disease?
What is peripheral arterial disease?
Use for coagulation of small areas of bleeding.
Thrombin
Imaging modality utilized to determine degree of stenosis for PAD?
What is Arterial Duplex Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA), Computed Tomographic Angiography (CTA)?
This pathology is caused by a rapid decrease in lower limb blood flow, the clinical features of which can be described by the 6 p's: pain, paralysis, pulseless, pallor, paresthesia, poikilothermia
acute limb ischemia
Platelet rich "white clots" are seen in this kind of thrombosis
What is arterial thrombosis?
It is used to chemically dissolve an embolus/thrombus.
What is tPA (will also accept urokinase).
What surgery can be used to treat carotid artery stenosis via atherosclerotic disease?
Carotid Endarterectomy
“Tearing” chest pain is a symptom of what clinical emergency?
What is aortic dissection?
What type of artery is pictured here? (Elastic vs. Muscular vs. Arterioles)
What is a muscular artery?
What is the pathogenesis of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)? (Think Virchow's Triad)
1) Venous Stasis, 2) endothelial/vessel injury, 3) Intrinsic Hypercoagulability
Anticoagulant that is completely contraindicated in pregnancy
What is Warfarin?
What can you give instead?
What is the surgical criteria for thoracic aneurysms?
Diameter > 5.5 cm, Growth >0.5cm/year, Symptoms
What arterial abnormality is pictured below?
What is fibromuscular dysplasia?
*Congenital arterial abnormality of fibrous, muscular, and elastic components. Can have stroke like symptoms.
What arteries are considered elastic arteries?
Large arteries close to the heart (aorta, pulmonary trunk, and their large branches)
Regions where blood-tissue exchange occurs
Capillary Beds
Blood enters via arteriole, exits through venule
Antidote for Heparin?
What is Protamine
Vascular surgeons treat this common disease that affects 8.5 million American adults aged 40 years or older.
What is Peripheral Artery Disease?