Medical Terminology CIRCC 2025 Expert
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Aneurysm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Weakness in all 3 layers of the vessel (intima,
media, adventitia) resulting in ballooning of the vessel with potential rupture
Pseudo aneurysm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A hole through all 3 layers in an arterial
wall resulting in an aneurysm like expansion of blood around the vessel
(stab wound, gunshot, deceleration injury, iatrogenic with needle)
Atherectomy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Percutaneous removal of atheromatous
material
, Stent - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A metallic or catheter based device (balloon
expandable or self expanding) placed in vessels and ducts to treat a
stenosis or occlusion (vascular, ureteral, or biliary stents)
Covered Stent - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A metallic stent covered with graft material.
Drug eluting stent - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A metallic stent that releases a
thrombolytic drug after placement
Arteriovenous malformations - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A type of abnormal
communication between and artery and a vein. Many arteries flow into a
central nidus with rapid AV shunting with potential for ischemia, skin or
tissue necrosis, and congestive heart failure.
Embolization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Using a material (gel foam, autologous blood
clot, glue, coil, suture, PVA, ethiodol, lipiodol, embosphere, therasphere,
sirsphere) to cause cessation of blood flow to a vessel or organ
Fibroids - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Benign smooth muscle tumors in the uterus which
may cause bleeding or pain; treated by hysterectomy, endoscopic surgery
or Embolization.
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Aneurysm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Weakness in all 3 layers of the vessel (intima,
media, adventitia) resulting in ballooning of the vessel with potential rupture
Pseudo aneurysm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A hole through all 3 layers in an arterial
wall resulting in an aneurysm like expansion of blood around the vessel
(stab wound, gunshot, deceleration injury, iatrogenic with needle)
Atherectomy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Percutaneous removal of atheromatous
material
, Stent - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A metallic or catheter based device (balloon
expandable or self expanding) placed in vessels and ducts to treat a
stenosis or occlusion (vascular, ureteral, or biliary stents)
Covered Stent - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A metallic stent covered with graft material.
Drug eluting stent - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A metallic stent that releases a
thrombolytic drug after placement
Arteriovenous malformations - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A type of abnormal
communication between and artery and a vein. Many arteries flow into a
central nidus with rapid AV shunting with potential for ischemia, skin or
tissue necrosis, and congestive heart failure.
Embolization - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Using a material (gel foam, autologous blood
clot, glue, coil, suture, PVA, ethiodol, lipiodol, embosphere, therasphere,
sirsphere) to cause cessation of blood flow to a vessel or organ
Fibroids - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Benign smooth muscle tumors in the uterus which
may cause bleeding or pain; treated by hysterectomy, endoscopic surgery
or Embolization.
