Cardiology Imaging and Labs

I want to suck your blood

100

Peaks earliest in ACS and is a test to rule out MI

What is myoglobin?

200

Largest concentration in myocardium, appears early in ACS and returns to normal in 48-72 hours

What is CK-MB?

300

Used to rule in or out congestive heart failure

What is BNP?

400

The definitive rule-in test for AMI

What is Troponin-I?

500

Can be falsly elevated by heterophile antibodies

What are troponins?

How to see through

100

the view that causes a chest x-ray to appear to have cardiomegaly

What is AP view?

200

A widened mediastinum may show this cardiac problem

What is an aortic aneurysm?

300

 Information that can be distinguished about the heart chambers by a CXR

What is the the size or hypertrophy?

400

Cardiomegaly is depicted on the chest x-ray by heart size?

What is at least half the size of the pleural cavity?

500

Important other pathology to view in a CXR than the heart for cardiac etiology?

What is pulmonary pathology?

What is lymph pathology?

Echo..echo..echo..

100

types of echocardiogram include

What are: transthoracic, transesohphageal, color doppler (can be added to either), stress echo?

200

gold standard for valve morphology and motion

What is 2D echocardiogram?

300

Necessary to fully evaluate prosthetic heart valves, source of embolism, vegetations

What is transesophageal echo?

400

superimposed over 2D echo to show normal and abnormal blood flow

What is color doppler echo?

500

exercise or chemically added to echo to evaluate for ischemia

What is a stress echo?

Do I glow?

100

Use of radioactive tracers to assess myocardial perfusion and ventricular function

What is radionuclide (nuclear) imaging?

200

cardiac nuclear imaging indication

What is ischemic heart disease?

300

Name a patient outcome that can be achieved from information gathered by nuclear imaging

What is patients that would benefit from revascularization?

400

Determining ischemia (fixed or exacerbated) may require nuclear imaging performed at what two points (testing circumstances)

What are resting or with stress?

500

Types of cardiac nuclear testing

What are SPECT, PET, Ventriculography?

Toss the heart

100

Assesses heart structures in congenital disease and scarring

What is Cardiac MRI?

200

anatomic map of the vasculature

What is coronary angiography?

300

Invasive procedure used to visualize patency of veins

What is venography?

400

list utilization of ultrasound in the vasculature

What is: Assessment of aortic aneurysm, arterial flow, venous flow and presence of DVT?

500

ratio of systolic blood pressure at the ankle divided by the higher of the 2 arm systolic pressures

What is the Ankle Brachial Index (ABI)?