ARDMS ADULT ECHO COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What portion of the aorta is located from the valve annulus to the first branch? -
✔✔Ascending Aorta
✔✔The Majority of Pulmonary Venous Flow into the Left Atrium occurs during? -
✔✔Early Systole
✔✔What connects the mitral valve leaflets to the papillary muscles? - ✔✔Chordae
Tendinae
✔✔The Right Ventricular Systolic Pressure Measurement Estimates the? -
✔✔Pulmonary Artery Pressure
✔✔The RVSP Measurement is used to assess? - ✔✔Pulmonary Artery Pressure to
diagnose Pulmonary HTN
✔✔Aortic Isthmus refers to? - ✔✔The Segment Distal to the Origin of Left Subclavian
and the ligamentum arteriosus
✔✔What percentage of of Ventricular Filling occurs with Atrial Contraction? - ✔✔30%
✔✔The Atrioventricular Valve found in the left heart is the - ✔✔Mitral Valve
✔✔Movement of Blood from the Left Atrium into the Left Ventricle in Rapid Filling
Phase? - ✔✔Atrial Pressure Increases, Mitral Valve Opens and Blood is pushed into the
Left Ventricle due to rapidly relaxing ventricle
✔✔Which of the Aortic Valve Leaflets is closest to the Interatrial Septum? - ✔✔Non
Coronary Cusp
✔✔What kind of effect does Dobutamine have on the Left Ventricle? - ✔✔Increases
Oxygen Demand
Increasing LV Contractility
✔✔Normal Fractional Shortening of the Left Ventricle is? - ✔✔>25%
✔✔Normal Ejection Fraction of the Left Ventricle is? - ✔✔>55%
✔✔Refers to the flap of tissue that may be identified at the junction of the IVC and Right
Atrium? - ✔✔Eustachian Valve
, ✔✔Widest Portion of the Heart is referred to as? - ✔✔Base
✔✔Tricuspid Valve Opens Before what Valve - ✔✔Mitral Valve
✔✔Tricuspid Valve Closes After what Valve? - ✔✔Mitral Valve
✔✔What vale opens before and closes after the Mitral Valve? - ✔✔Tricsupid Valve
✔✔Which vessel drains the coronary blood from the right ventricle? - ✔✔Small Cardiac
Vein
✔✔What fetal cardiac shunt closes after birth? - ✔✔Ductus Arteriosus
✔✔How many segments is the left ventricle divided into when assessing wall motion at
the basal level? - ✔✔Six
✔✔Akinesis of the Left Ventricle, which coronary artery is most likely affected by
coronary artery disease? - ✔✔Left Anterior Descending Arota
✔✔Functional LVOT refers to? - ✔✔Area between the IVS to the anterior aortic annulus
and the anterior MV leaflet to the posterior aortic annulus
✔✔What facilitates the contraction of the Atrial Appendage? - ✔✔Pectinate muscles in
the walls provide support and assist in contraction in diastole
✔✔The largest antegrade flow component seen on doppler tracing the of the hepatic
veins is identified during what part of the cardiac cycle? - ✔✔Early Systole
✔✔Blood volume in the Right Ventricle is lowest during early systole which allows the
greatest volume of antegrade flow - ✔✔Into the chambers from the IVC and hepatic
veins
✔✔The blood volume in the right ventricle is lowest during? - ✔✔Early Systole
✔✔RCA supplies blood to the? - ✔✔Aria
Interatrial Septum
Right Ventricular Free Wall
Right Ventricular Apex
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What portion of the aorta is located from the valve annulus to the first branch? -
✔✔Ascending Aorta
✔✔The Majority of Pulmonary Venous Flow into the Left Atrium occurs during? -
✔✔Early Systole
✔✔What connects the mitral valve leaflets to the papillary muscles? - ✔✔Chordae
Tendinae
✔✔The Right Ventricular Systolic Pressure Measurement Estimates the? -
✔✔Pulmonary Artery Pressure
✔✔The RVSP Measurement is used to assess? - ✔✔Pulmonary Artery Pressure to
diagnose Pulmonary HTN
✔✔Aortic Isthmus refers to? - ✔✔The Segment Distal to the Origin of Left Subclavian
and the ligamentum arteriosus
✔✔What percentage of of Ventricular Filling occurs with Atrial Contraction? - ✔✔30%
✔✔The Atrioventricular Valve found in the left heart is the - ✔✔Mitral Valve
✔✔Movement of Blood from the Left Atrium into the Left Ventricle in Rapid Filling
Phase? - ✔✔Atrial Pressure Increases, Mitral Valve Opens and Blood is pushed into the
Left Ventricle due to rapidly relaxing ventricle
✔✔Which of the Aortic Valve Leaflets is closest to the Interatrial Septum? - ✔✔Non
Coronary Cusp
✔✔What kind of effect does Dobutamine have on the Left Ventricle? - ✔✔Increases
Oxygen Demand
Increasing LV Contractility
✔✔Normal Fractional Shortening of the Left Ventricle is? - ✔✔>25%
✔✔Normal Ejection Fraction of the Left Ventricle is? - ✔✔>55%
✔✔Refers to the flap of tissue that may be identified at the junction of the IVC and Right
Atrium? - ✔✔Eustachian Valve
, ✔✔Widest Portion of the Heart is referred to as? - ✔✔Base
✔✔Tricuspid Valve Opens Before what Valve - ✔✔Mitral Valve
✔✔Tricuspid Valve Closes After what Valve? - ✔✔Mitral Valve
✔✔What vale opens before and closes after the Mitral Valve? - ✔✔Tricsupid Valve
✔✔Which vessel drains the coronary blood from the right ventricle? - ✔✔Small Cardiac
Vein
✔✔What fetal cardiac shunt closes after birth? - ✔✔Ductus Arteriosus
✔✔How many segments is the left ventricle divided into when assessing wall motion at
the basal level? - ✔✔Six
✔✔Akinesis of the Left Ventricle, which coronary artery is most likely affected by
coronary artery disease? - ✔✔Left Anterior Descending Arota
✔✔Functional LVOT refers to? - ✔✔Area between the IVS to the anterior aortic annulus
and the anterior MV leaflet to the posterior aortic annulus
✔✔What facilitates the contraction of the Atrial Appendage? - ✔✔Pectinate muscles in
the walls provide support and assist in contraction in diastole
✔✔The largest antegrade flow component seen on doppler tracing the of the hepatic
veins is identified during what part of the cardiac cycle? - ✔✔Early Systole
✔✔Blood volume in the Right Ventricle is lowest during early systole which allows the
greatest volume of antegrade flow - ✔✔Into the chambers from the IVC and hepatic
veins
✔✔The blood volume in the right ventricle is lowest during? - ✔✔Early Systole
✔✔RCA supplies blood to the? - ✔✔Aria
Interatrial Septum
Right Ventricular Free Wall
Right Ventricular Apex
