ARDMS Echocardiography
Boards with 100% correct
answers 2025
what forms the septal leaflets of the TV MV IAS & IVS - answer
endocardial cusion
•A patient comes in with a difference of 30 mmHg between their upper
and lower extremity blood pressures what could this indicate? - answer
•Coarctation of the aorta
What does the third heart sound represent? - answer •is associated with
heart failure
•may be normal in people under 40 years of age and some trained
athletes but should disappear before middle age
•Which pulmonary vein is anomalous in PAPVR? - answer •RUPV
In a patient with MS the PHT is 100 what can you expect the MVA to be? -
answer •MVA = 220 ÷ PHt
•
•220 ÷ 100 = 2.2cm2 MVA
•When would you diagnose a bicuspid AoV?
•PLAX in systole
•PLAX in diastole
•PSAX in systole
•PSAX in diastole - answer •PSAX in systole
•Where are you most likely to see a membranous VSD?`
,•12-3 o'clock
•3-6 o'clock
•6-9 o'clock
•9-12 o'clock - answer •9-12 o'clock
•What is the most emergent finding on echo?
•Type B Dissection
•Tamponade
•EF <10%
•AS - answer •Tamponade
`•What type of regurgitation does most of the population have? - answer
PI or tr
•Showed a PEDOFF from right sternal border and asked based off the
velocity (2.6) what was the degree of stenosis? - answer mild
•A patient four days S/P MI presents with dyspnea, what is most likely the
cause?
•Septal rupture
•Dissection - answer •Septal rupture
•What is Dressler's syndrome usually a response to? - answer MI
•In a patient with known tamponade, will the MV inflow increase or
decrease with inspiration? - answer decrease ????
•In a dobutamine stress test does the LV cavity get smaller or larger? -
answer smaller
, •In what view can you see all of the MV scallops? - answer PSAX
•What would be most likely to embolize and cause a stroke?
•Vegetation
•Flail MV - answer veg
•What can help differentiate the right side of the heart?
•Visualizing all three leaflets
•Moderator band
•Trabeculations - answer moderator band
•What is another term for pulmonary wedge pressure? - answer to
provide an indirect estimate of LAP
•Showed four different CW profiles through the aortic valve and asked
what one was the proper measurement - answer •Three of them were
after a PVC and had elevated velocity
What does negative contrast in the RA indicate? - answer shunt
What pathology would you see pulsus paradoxus with? - answer
tamponade
•What part of the continuity equation causes the biggest error? - answer
LVOT diameter
•Which of the following represents a normal dp/dt? - answer >1200
•What would cause both MS and MR? - answer rheumatic
•What cardiomyopathy is stress induced and causes 'apical ballooning' -
answer takosubo
Boards with 100% correct
answers 2025
what forms the septal leaflets of the TV MV IAS & IVS - answer
endocardial cusion
•A patient comes in with a difference of 30 mmHg between their upper
and lower extremity blood pressures what could this indicate? - answer
•Coarctation of the aorta
What does the third heart sound represent? - answer •is associated with
heart failure
•may be normal in people under 40 years of age and some trained
athletes but should disappear before middle age
•Which pulmonary vein is anomalous in PAPVR? - answer •RUPV
In a patient with MS the PHT is 100 what can you expect the MVA to be? -
answer •MVA = 220 ÷ PHt
•
•220 ÷ 100 = 2.2cm2 MVA
•When would you diagnose a bicuspid AoV?
•PLAX in systole
•PLAX in diastole
•PSAX in systole
•PSAX in diastole - answer •PSAX in systole
•Where are you most likely to see a membranous VSD?`
,•12-3 o'clock
•3-6 o'clock
•6-9 o'clock
•9-12 o'clock - answer •9-12 o'clock
•What is the most emergent finding on echo?
•Type B Dissection
•Tamponade
•EF <10%
•AS - answer •Tamponade
`•What type of regurgitation does most of the population have? - answer
PI or tr
•Showed a PEDOFF from right sternal border and asked based off the
velocity (2.6) what was the degree of stenosis? - answer mild
•A patient four days S/P MI presents with dyspnea, what is most likely the
cause?
•Septal rupture
•Dissection - answer •Septal rupture
•What is Dressler's syndrome usually a response to? - answer MI
•In a patient with known tamponade, will the MV inflow increase or
decrease with inspiration? - answer decrease ????
•In a dobutamine stress test does the LV cavity get smaller or larger? -
answer smaller
, •In what view can you see all of the MV scallops? - answer PSAX
•What would be most likely to embolize and cause a stroke?
•Vegetation
•Flail MV - answer veg
•What can help differentiate the right side of the heart?
•Visualizing all three leaflets
•Moderator band
•Trabeculations - answer moderator band
•What is another term for pulmonary wedge pressure? - answer to
provide an indirect estimate of LAP
•Showed four different CW profiles through the aortic valve and asked
what one was the proper measurement - answer •Three of them were
after a PVC and had elevated velocity
What does negative contrast in the RA indicate? - answer shunt
What pathology would you see pulsus paradoxus with? - answer
tamponade
•What part of the continuity equation causes the biggest error? - answer
LVOT diameter
•Which of the following represents a normal dp/dt? - answer >1200
•What would cause both MS and MR? - answer rheumatic
•What cardiomyopathy is stress induced and causes 'apical ballooning' -
answer takosubo
