VASCULAR ULTRASOUND REVIEW
RIND DEFINITION - ✔️✔️REVERSIBLE ISCHEMIC NEUROLOGIC DEFICIT
USUALLY LASTS LONGER THAN TIA , BUT THE DEFICIT IT CREATES TAKES
SLIGHTLY LONGER THAN 24 HOURS TO RESOLVE. THAT IS THE BRAIN TISSUE
IS DAMAGED BUT RECOVERS COMPLETELY.
3 CAUSES OF ISCHEMIA - ✔️✔️ATHERTHROMBOTIC PATHOLOGIES,
CARDIOGENIC PATHOLOGIES, AND LACUNAR INFARCTIONS
MAJOR BRANCHES OF THE OPHTHALMIC ARTERY ARE: - ✔️✔️FRONTAL,
SUPRAORBITAL AND NASAL
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARISE FROM THE INTRACRANIAL ICA EXCEPT:
MIDDLE CEREBRAL ART
ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ART
ASCENDING PHARYNGEAL ART
POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ART - ✔️✔️ASCENDING PHARYNGEAL
THE OPHTHALMIC ART IS A BRANCH OF THE: - ✔️✔️ICA
IN THE CASE OF ICA OCCLUSION, ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE POTENTIAL
COLLATERAL PATHWAYS TO PERFUSE THE IPSILATERAL CEREBRAL
HEMISPHERE EXCEPT:
A. CONTRALATERAL ICA THROUGH REVERSED FLOW IN THE IPSILATERAL ANT
CEREBRAL ART
B. VERTEBROBASILAR SYSTEM THROUGH THE POST COMMUNICATING ART
C. IPSILATERAL ECA THROUGH THE ORBIT TO THE OPHTHALMIC ART.
D. CONTRALATERAL SUBCLAVIAN ART TO THE INTERNAL MAMMARY ART -
✔️✔️D. CONTRALATERAL SUBCLAVIAN ART TO THE MAMMARY ART
WHICH BRANCH OF THE ECA PROVIDES A COLLATERAL PATHWAY TO THE
VERTEBRAL ART - ✔️✔️OCCIPITAL ART
IN THE CASE OF VERTEBRAL ART OCCLUSION, WHICH VESSEL IS LIKELY TO BE
ENLARGED - ✔️✔️CONTRALATERAL VERTEBRAL ART
WHICH VESSELS MAKE UP THE CIRCLE OF WILLIS? - ✔️✔️DISTAL INTERNAL
CAROTID
ANTERIOR CEREBRAL
POSTERIOR CEREBRAL
, WHICH VESSEL JOINS THE BRACHIAL VEINS TO FORM THE AXILLARY VEIN? -
✔️✔️BASILIC
WHICH VEIN IN THE ANTECUBITAL FOSSA CONNECTS THE CEPHALIC AND
BASILIC VEINS? - ✔️✔️MEDIAN CUBITAL VEIN
LONGEST VEIN IN THE BODY IS ? - ✔️✔️GREAT SAPHENOUS VEIN
PORTAL VEIN IS FORMED BY THE CONFLUENCE OF WHICH TWO VEINS? -
✔️✔️SUPERIOR MESENTERIC AND SPLENIC V
BOYD'S VEIN IS A PERFORATING VEIN THAT CONNECTS THE GASTROCNEMIUS
VEIN TO THE: - ✔️✔️POST TIB VEIN
MAJOR FUNCTION OF THE VASA VASORUM IS: - ✔️✔️PROVIDE NOURISHMENT
TO THE TUNICA ADVENTITIA
THE ECA PROVIDES AN ANASTOMOTIC LINK TO THE ICA THROUGH THE ORBIT
VIA WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING VESSELS - ✔️✔️SUPERFICIAL TEMPORAL
ARTERY
PURPOSE OF SEMILUNAR VALVE OF THE VEINS - ✔️✔️MAINTAIN
UNIDIRECTIONAL FLOW WITHIN THE VENOUS SYSTEM
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING VEINS HAS THE GREATEST NUMBER OF VALVES? -
✔️✔️GREAT SAPHENOUS VEIN
BICUSPID VALVES IN THE VENOUS SYSTEM ARE FORMED BY FOLDS OF THE -
✔️✔️INTIMA
REYNOLDS NUMBER DESCRIBES - ✔️✔️THE POINT AT WHICH FLOW BECOMES
TURBULENT
DEFINITION OF LAMINAR FLOW - ✔️✔️CHARACTERIZED AS NORMAL NON
TURBULENT FLOW
WHAT IS SUBCLAVIAN STEAL? - ✔️✔️SEVERE STENOSIS OR OCCLUSION IN
THE PROXIMAL SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY. RESULTING IN CONTRALATERAL
RETROGRADE FLOW IN VERTEBRAL ARTERY. MOST FREQUENTLY OCCURING
ON THE LEFT.
UNILATERAL TEMPORARY VISION LOSS ASSOCIATED WITH
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE IS KNOWN AS - ✔️✔️AMAUROIS FUGAX
RIND DEFINITION - ✔️✔️REVERSIBLE ISCHEMIC NEUROLOGIC DEFICIT
USUALLY LASTS LONGER THAN TIA , BUT THE DEFICIT IT CREATES TAKES
SLIGHTLY LONGER THAN 24 HOURS TO RESOLVE. THAT IS THE BRAIN TISSUE
IS DAMAGED BUT RECOVERS COMPLETELY.
3 CAUSES OF ISCHEMIA - ✔️✔️ATHERTHROMBOTIC PATHOLOGIES,
CARDIOGENIC PATHOLOGIES, AND LACUNAR INFARCTIONS
MAJOR BRANCHES OF THE OPHTHALMIC ARTERY ARE: - ✔️✔️FRONTAL,
SUPRAORBITAL AND NASAL
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARISE FROM THE INTRACRANIAL ICA EXCEPT:
MIDDLE CEREBRAL ART
ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ART
ASCENDING PHARYNGEAL ART
POSTERIOR COMMUNICATING ART - ✔️✔️ASCENDING PHARYNGEAL
THE OPHTHALMIC ART IS A BRANCH OF THE: - ✔️✔️ICA
IN THE CASE OF ICA OCCLUSION, ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE POTENTIAL
COLLATERAL PATHWAYS TO PERFUSE THE IPSILATERAL CEREBRAL
HEMISPHERE EXCEPT:
A. CONTRALATERAL ICA THROUGH REVERSED FLOW IN THE IPSILATERAL ANT
CEREBRAL ART
B. VERTEBROBASILAR SYSTEM THROUGH THE POST COMMUNICATING ART
C. IPSILATERAL ECA THROUGH THE ORBIT TO THE OPHTHALMIC ART.
D. CONTRALATERAL SUBCLAVIAN ART TO THE INTERNAL MAMMARY ART -
✔️✔️D. CONTRALATERAL SUBCLAVIAN ART TO THE MAMMARY ART
WHICH BRANCH OF THE ECA PROVIDES A COLLATERAL PATHWAY TO THE
VERTEBRAL ART - ✔️✔️OCCIPITAL ART
IN THE CASE OF VERTEBRAL ART OCCLUSION, WHICH VESSEL IS LIKELY TO BE
ENLARGED - ✔️✔️CONTRALATERAL VERTEBRAL ART
WHICH VESSELS MAKE UP THE CIRCLE OF WILLIS? - ✔️✔️DISTAL INTERNAL
CAROTID
ANTERIOR CEREBRAL
POSTERIOR CEREBRAL
, WHICH VESSEL JOINS THE BRACHIAL VEINS TO FORM THE AXILLARY VEIN? -
✔️✔️BASILIC
WHICH VEIN IN THE ANTECUBITAL FOSSA CONNECTS THE CEPHALIC AND
BASILIC VEINS? - ✔️✔️MEDIAN CUBITAL VEIN
LONGEST VEIN IN THE BODY IS ? - ✔️✔️GREAT SAPHENOUS VEIN
PORTAL VEIN IS FORMED BY THE CONFLUENCE OF WHICH TWO VEINS? -
✔️✔️SUPERIOR MESENTERIC AND SPLENIC V
BOYD'S VEIN IS A PERFORATING VEIN THAT CONNECTS THE GASTROCNEMIUS
VEIN TO THE: - ✔️✔️POST TIB VEIN
MAJOR FUNCTION OF THE VASA VASORUM IS: - ✔️✔️PROVIDE NOURISHMENT
TO THE TUNICA ADVENTITIA
THE ECA PROVIDES AN ANASTOMOTIC LINK TO THE ICA THROUGH THE ORBIT
VIA WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING VESSELS - ✔️✔️SUPERFICIAL TEMPORAL
ARTERY
PURPOSE OF SEMILUNAR VALVE OF THE VEINS - ✔️✔️MAINTAIN
UNIDIRECTIONAL FLOW WITHIN THE VENOUS SYSTEM
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING VEINS HAS THE GREATEST NUMBER OF VALVES? -
✔️✔️GREAT SAPHENOUS VEIN
BICUSPID VALVES IN THE VENOUS SYSTEM ARE FORMED BY FOLDS OF THE -
✔️✔️INTIMA
REYNOLDS NUMBER DESCRIBES - ✔️✔️THE POINT AT WHICH FLOW BECOMES
TURBULENT
DEFINITION OF LAMINAR FLOW - ✔️✔️CHARACTERIZED AS NORMAL NON
TURBULENT FLOW
WHAT IS SUBCLAVIAN STEAL? - ✔️✔️SEVERE STENOSIS OR OCCLUSION IN
THE PROXIMAL SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY. RESULTING IN CONTRALATERAL
RETROGRADE FLOW IN VERTEBRAL ARTERY. MOST FREQUENTLY OCCURING
ON THE LEFT.
UNILATERAL TEMPORARY VISION LOSS ASSOCIATED WITH
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE IS KNOWN AS - ✔️✔️AMAUROIS FUGAX
