Week 1 Material
What is the best indicator of a hemodynamically significant stenosis?
spectral broadening
A patient comes in with a contender, pulsatile mass in the neck, what do they have?
carotid aneurysm
What veins do not contain valves?
innominate, SVC, IVC, iliac veins, and soleal sinus
What is the key sign/symptom for superficial venous thrombus?
palpable cord
What is venous claudication?
Pain while exercising that is relieved by elevation
What wall layer of arteries is the site for atherosclerosis?
tunica intima
What is a hemodynamically significant indicator of stenosis when you have tortuous vessels?
PST
Which veins are the main conduit for blood returning to the heart?
deep veins
A catheter is used to deliver thrombolytic drugs to break up the clot and is then sucked out:
a Percutaneous Mechanical Thrombectomy
What is primary reflux?
Incompetent valves in the superficial system
What is the vaso vasorum?
the blood supply within the blood supply
FMD is most common in what artery?
renal artery
What does Virchow's Triad help us understand?
why we form clots
What do they put IVC filters in to prevent?
a pulmonary embolism
A catheter based procedure that uses heat to fibrose the vein and shuts it down:
RFA
What is the strongest risk factor for stroke?
hypertension
Carotid body tumors are classified as what?
paragangliomas
What is the number 1 nonvascular finding?
a baker's cyst
A Venous Stent is most commonly used to treat what?
May Thurner Syndrome
spider veins (telangiectasia)
How do you determine CCA stenosis severity?
@ stenosis/pre stenosis
How do you differentiate a true aneurysm from a false one?
a false aneurysm has a neck
Why do thrombi usually form at valve cusps?
due to stagnation
Why do we always need to identify perforators while vein mapping?
so an AV fistula does not form
stab phlebectomy