Signs/Symptoms
Anatomy
Pathophysiology
Meds
Importance of the Vascular Surgeon
100
Cramping pain that occurs at a reproducible distance and is relieved by rest; due to a chronic decrease in arterial blood flow
What is claudication?
100
Which vessels have the greatest resistance?
Arterioles
100
The connection between two blood vessels, or a blood vessel and a bypass graft, is also called an
What is anastomosis?
100
Used to keep the blood from clotting during vascular surgery.
What is heparin?
100
The 5-year mortality for which lower extremity vascular surgery procedure is more than that of advanced cancer
What is amputation?
200
Compression of this can lead to hoarseness in patients with a thoracic aortic aneurysm
Left recurrent laryngeal nerve
200
Artery that is commonly affected in patients with strokes
Carotid Artery
200
The highest pressure between the right or left upper extremity divided by the highest DP or PT pressure?
What is ankle-brachial index (ABI)?
200
Use for coagulation of small areas of bleeding.
Thrombin
200
A patient with coronary artery disease may not have peripheral arterial disease but a patient with peripheral arterial disease always has...
What is coronary artery disease?
300
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
300
What is a descending thoracic aortic aneurysm?
300
A clot that forms where a prior arterial plaque already existed
What is arterial thrombosis?
300
It is used to chemically dissolve an embolus/thrombus.
What is tPA (will also accept urokinase).
300
Theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, then died of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm after attempts to wrap it in cellophane were unsuccessful
Who is Albert Einstein?
400
“Tearing” chest pain is a symptom of what clinical emergency?
What is aortic dissection?
400
What arterial layer is pictured in green? (intima vs media vs adventitia)
What is adventitia?
400
What is the pathogenesis of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)? (Think Virchow's Triad)
1) Venous Stasis, 2) endothelial/vessel injury, 3) Intrinsic Hypercoagulability
400
Anticoagulant that is completely contraindicated in pregnancy
What is Warfarin?
What can you give instead?
400
War during which vascular surgery was born due to the high rate of amputation and the use of prolene suture for the vascular anastomosis
What is World War II?
500
What arterial abnormality is pictured below?
What is fibromuscular dysplasia?
*Congenital arterial abnormality of fibrous, muscular, and elastic components. Can have stroke like symptoms.
500
Blood vessel directly off the aorta that supplies the small and large intestine
What is the superior mesenteric artery (SMA)?
500
Regions where blood-tissue exchange occurs
Capillary Beds
Blood enters via arteriole, exits through venule
500
Heparin reversal agent
What is Protamine?
500
Vascular surgeons treat this common disease that affects 8.5 million American adults aged 40 years or older.
What is Peripheral Artery Disease?