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Arteries and Veins
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relax?
Are you registered?
What's that?
Which Dr. Did it?
100
This measurement should be taken in a zoomed view, measuring the "neck" or the narrowest portion of the regurgitation jet.
What is vena contracta?
100
This substance builds up in the arteries of patients with Peripheral artery disease.
What is Plaque? Fun Fact: Plaque is made up of fat, cholesterol, calcium, fibrous tissue and other substances in the blood.
100
When a patient has a pseudo-normal mitral inflow pattern, this maneuver is utilized to determine if the impaired relaxation inflow pattern changes with a decrease in preload.
What is the valsalva maneuver?
100
Per registry requirements, a traced area of this valve, must be attained in someone with moderate to severe MR.
What is the Mitral Valve?
100
This doctor loves cardiac MR.
Who Is Dr. Abdallah?
200
This Doppler, commonly mistaken for an LVOT obstruction, is longer in duration that the LVOT Doppler.
What is mitral regurgitation?
200
5-12 million Americans have this disease yet are asymptomatic.
What is Peripheral Arterial Disease?
200
These TWO measurements are taken on the blood flow as it passes from the Left Atrium through the mitral valve to the Left Ventricle. They are used to determine diastolic filling velocity AND diastolic filling time.
What is the mitral valve E/A (ratio) and deceleration time?
200
According to the TAVR registry and ASE TAVR guidelines, this method of measuring is recommended for a LVOT 2D measurement post TAVR.
What is outer edge to outer edge? Fun Fact: SH has put in over 500 TAVR's! Thanks to Lou for this fun fact!
200
This doctor participated in a national spelling bee (once upon a time) and placed 26th!
Who is Dr. Mahajerin? So check it out...In 1992, when Ali Mahajerin was in the 8th grade, he placed 26th in the National Spelling BEE! Hooray!
300
This valve, named after a bishop's hat, is commonly affected in patients with rheumatic fever.
What is the Mitral Valve? Fun Fact: "It is named for its shape, which resembles a tall bishop's hat called a miter." http://drhoffman.com/article/mitral-valve-prolapse-3/
300
This type of vein perforates the deep fascia of muscles and connects superficial veins to deep veins.
What is a perforator vein?
300
If the average heart rate is 69 beats per minute, the heart beats approximately this many times per day.
What is 100,000. (99,360) Fun Fact: At this rate, the heart will beat 36,500,000 times a year. And a 70 year old's heart would have beat 2,555,000,000 times! (two and a half quadrillion times!)
300
This brand of ventricular assist device is subdiaphramatic and because of this has better Doppler signals than the other popular brand.
What is the HeartMate?
300
This doctor does not eat any sugar, no fruit, no ice cream, no desert at all. This doctor also plays soccer on a community team and reports that they lose a lot.
Who is Dr. Hajaar?
400
This measurement is derived from the hydrodynamic principle stating that, as blood approaches a regurgitant orifice its velocity increases, forming concentric, hemispheric shells of increasing velocity.
What is PISA?
400
This disorder is characterized by non-atherosclerotic, non-inflammatory, abnormal growths within the walls of an artery.
What is fibromuscular dysplasia?
400
Per ASE guidelines, these two diastolic Doppler measurements are considered inaccurate in patients with an MVR.
What are lateral and medial TDI measurements?
400
This is the only registry so far that requires the LA diameter.
What is the HCM registry?
400
This doctor was recently ordained as a minister online for $30 in order to perform a marriage ceremony for some good friends this summer.
Who is Dr. Franey? It only took 2 minutes to get ordained and she is certified for baptisms and funerals too! So if anyone is looking for some "ministering", her license is good until 2019!
500
This syndrome is identified by severe immobility of the tricuspid valve leaflets causing them to be described as 'frozen'.
What is Carcinoid Syndrome?
500
Hypertension in neonates, while uncommon, is most frequently the result of this abnormality of the aorta.
What is coarctation of the aorta? Bonus Fact: Congenital renal stenosis also causes hypertension in neonates but happens less frequently than coarctation of the aorta.
500
This music group had these hit songs in the 80's : I Love Rock n' Roll, I Hate Myself for Loving You, and Do You Wanna Touch Me.
Who is Joan Jett and the Blackhearts?
500
Chicken Wing, broccoli, windsock or multi-lobular are words used to describe the shape of this structure in the heart.
What is the left atrial appendage?
500
This doctor majored in Physics and minored in Math before going to medical school.
Who is Michael McNamara?