RVT ARDMS COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS FULLY VERIFIED
●● What is the biggest difference between the layers of arteries and
veins?
Answer: Tunica Media
●● What is the Tunica Intima?
Answer: Innermost layer
●● What type of cells are in the Tunica Intima?
Answer: Smooth Endothelial Cells
●● What is the blood supply to the blood supply?
Answer: Vasa Vasorum
●● Where is the site of proliferative activity for atherosclerosis?
Answer: Subendothelial space
●● Which vessel layer is composed of smooth muscle cells?
Answer: Tunica Media
,●● First branches of the aorta are what?
Answer: coronary arteries
●● What is another name for the brachiocephalic artery?
Answer: innominate artery
●● What does the innominate artery bifurcate into?
Answer: The right subclavian and right CCA
●● Where does the subclavian artery terminate?
Answer: The first rib
●● Does the axillary artery pass behind or in front of the clavicle?
Answer: behind
●● What is the main blood supply to the arm, forearm and hand?
Answer: The Brachial artery
●● What is the radial arteries terminal branch?
Answer: Deep palmar arch
,●● What is the Ulnar arteries terminal branch?
Answer: Superficial palmar arch
●● Is the palmar arch always complete?
Answer: No sometimes it is incomplete
●● The left gastric artery supplies what?
Answer: The stomach and esophagus
●● What comes off the celiac trunk?
Answer: left gastric artery, common hepatic artery, splenic artery
●● Where is the SMA located?
Answer: 1 cm distal to the celiac artery
●● What does the Superior Mesenteric Artery supply?
Answer: small intestine, cecum and parts of the colon
●● What might the SMA and Celiac artery have?
Answer: a common trunk
●● Which Renal artery is longer?
, Answer: The right
●● Does the right renal artery pass behind or in front of the IVC?
Answer: behind
●● The inferior mesenteric artery arises from where?
Answer: The abdominal aorta
●● The IMA is what distance above the aortic bifurcation?
Answer: 2-4 cm
●● What does the IMA supply?
Answer: Descending colon, transverse colon and rectum
●● What are the 2 potential collateral connections between the IMA and
SMA?
Answer: Marginal artery of the colon and the Arc of Riolan
●● What is the Marginal Artery of the Colon also known as?
Answer: The Marginal Artery of Drummond
●● What is the landmark for the Aortic bifurcation?
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS FULLY VERIFIED
●● What is the biggest difference between the layers of arteries and
veins?
Answer: Tunica Media
●● What is the Tunica Intima?
Answer: Innermost layer
●● What type of cells are in the Tunica Intima?
Answer: Smooth Endothelial Cells
●● What is the blood supply to the blood supply?
Answer: Vasa Vasorum
●● Where is the site of proliferative activity for atherosclerosis?
Answer: Subendothelial space
●● Which vessel layer is composed of smooth muscle cells?
Answer: Tunica Media
,●● First branches of the aorta are what?
Answer: coronary arteries
●● What is another name for the brachiocephalic artery?
Answer: innominate artery
●● What does the innominate artery bifurcate into?
Answer: The right subclavian and right CCA
●● Where does the subclavian artery terminate?
Answer: The first rib
●● Does the axillary artery pass behind or in front of the clavicle?
Answer: behind
●● What is the main blood supply to the arm, forearm and hand?
Answer: The Brachial artery
●● What is the radial arteries terminal branch?
Answer: Deep palmar arch
,●● What is the Ulnar arteries terminal branch?
Answer: Superficial palmar arch
●● Is the palmar arch always complete?
Answer: No sometimes it is incomplete
●● The left gastric artery supplies what?
Answer: The stomach and esophagus
●● What comes off the celiac trunk?
Answer: left gastric artery, common hepatic artery, splenic artery
●● Where is the SMA located?
Answer: 1 cm distal to the celiac artery
●● What does the Superior Mesenteric Artery supply?
Answer: small intestine, cecum and parts of the colon
●● What might the SMA and Celiac artery have?
Answer: a common trunk
●● Which Renal artery is longer?
, Answer: The right
●● Does the right renal artery pass behind or in front of the IVC?
Answer: behind
●● The inferior mesenteric artery arises from where?
Answer: The abdominal aorta
●● The IMA is what distance above the aortic bifurcation?
Answer: 2-4 cm
●● What does the IMA supply?
Answer: Descending colon, transverse colon and rectum
●● What are the 2 potential collateral connections between the IMA and
SMA?
Answer: Marginal artery of the colon and the Arc of Riolan
●● What is the Marginal Artery of the Colon also known as?
Answer: The Marginal Artery of Drummond
●● What is the landmark for the Aortic bifurcation?
