ABCP Perfusion Basic Science Exam Questions with Correct
Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: The most common type of anomalous venous return is:
a. supracardiac
b. cardiac
c. infracardiac
d. cardiac
Answer: a
Question 2: A Pott's operation is an anastomosis of the:
a. ascending aorta to the left pulmonary artery
b. descending aorta to the pulmonary artery branch
c. subclavian artery to the pulmonary artery branch
d. ascending aorta to the subclavian artery
Answer: a
Question 3: The basic hemodynamic fault in a patent ductus arteriosus is a -to- shunt at the
pulmonary artery level
a. right, left
b. left, right
c. superior, inferior
d. inferior, superior
Answer: b
Question 4: Which of the following statements is not true if viewing the heart through a median
sternotomy?
a. the right atrioventricular sulcus may bee seen
b. the left atrium is predominant
c. the apex point anteriorly
d. the inter ventricular sulcus may be visualized
Answer: b
Question 5: The posterior hepatic vein connects to the
a. inferior vena cava
b. hemiazygous system
c. azygous system
d. accessory-azygous system
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, Answer: a
Question 6: What is the most common type of valvular defect?
a. AI
b. AS
c. MI
d. MS
Answer: d
Question 7: Which of the following is not evident in Tetralogy of Fallot?
a. VSD
b. pulmonary stenosis
c. ASD
d. overriding aorta
e. RV hypertrophy
Answer: c
Question 8: Of the following arteries, which is most superior?
a. Celiac
b. Mesenteric
c. Renal
d. Iliac
Answer: a
Question 9: Where is the most common site for a coarctation of the aorta?
a. ascending aorta distal to the coronary ostia
b. transverse aorta between the innominate and the carotid arteries
c. descending aorta distal to the subclavian artery
d. ascending aorta proximal to the innominate artery
Answer: c
Question 10: Closure of the small valve that overlies the foramen ovale in the (A-atrial,
V-ventricular) septum is associated with (D-decreased, I-increased) right chamber pressure
a. A, D
b. A, I
c. V, D
d. V, I
Answer: a
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,Question 11: Which of the following is not true?
a. sinusoids are a type of capillary
b. the intimal of veins and arteries is continuous with the capillary endothelium
c. the opening of a precapillary sphincter will force blood to flow through arteriovenous shunts
d. the vaso-vasorum is the blood supply for the tunica adventitia of veins and arteries
Answer: c
Question 12: Which of the following statements is true?
a. the SA nodal branch of the RCA is almost always responsible for the blood supply to the SA node
b. the major blood supply of the septum is the circumflex artery
c. cardiac venous blood drains either into the coronary sinus or directly into the right atrium
d. metarterioles and arteriovenous anastomoses both circumvent the capillary beds
Answer: c
Question 13: Which of the following arteries would be found in the posterior interventricular sulcus?
a. posterior descending artery
b. left circumflex
c. acute marginal branch
d. distal portion the obtuse marginal branch
Answer: a
Question 14: Pick the most correct statement:
a. the Rastelli procedure is a cath lab technique in which a balloon catheter is used to enlarge or
create an ASD
b. the Fontan operation facilitates complete correction of tricuspid atresia by placement of a tube
graft conduit between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery system
c. a VSD is necessary for survival in a child born with tricuspid atresia
d. a Blalock-Hanlon procedure creates an enlarged ASD and is done under cardiopulmonary bypass
Answer: c
Question 15: Which valve is commonly replaced with IHSS?
a. tricuspid
b. pulmonary
c. mitral
d. aortic
Answer: c
Question 16: The initiation of respiration in the newborn infant pulmonary vascular resistance and
the pulmonary arterial pressure (I-increase, D-decrease)
a. I, I
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, b. I, D
c. D, I
d. D, D
Answer: d
Question 17: In a Waterston-Cooley shunt you create a/an:
a. VSD
b. aorta-pulmonary window
c. ASD
d. subclavian to PA shunt
Answer: b
Question 18: A PFO in a newborn can be categorized as what type of shunt?
a. restrictive
b. non-restrictive
c. complex
d. cyanotic
Answer: b
Question 19: Which of the following is a type III endocardial cushion defect?
a. ostium primum defect
b. ostium primum defect with a cleft in the mitral and tricuspid leaflet
c. atrioventricular communis
d. sinus venosus
Answer: c
Question 20: Which type of VSD is located between the pulmonary valve and the crista
supraventricularis?
a. Type I
b. Type II
c. Type III
d. Type IV
Answer: a
Question 21: Regarding a VSD, which is correct?
a. the type I defect is located in the muscular septum
b. early in life, the direction of shunt across a VSD (in the absence of other anomalies) will be right to
left
c. cyanosis due to a right to left shunt across a VSD can occur when the pulmonary vascular
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Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: The most common type of anomalous venous return is:
a. supracardiac
b. cardiac
c. infracardiac
d. cardiac
Answer: a
Question 2: A Pott's operation is an anastomosis of the:
a. ascending aorta to the left pulmonary artery
b. descending aorta to the pulmonary artery branch
c. subclavian artery to the pulmonary artery branch
d. ascending aorta to the subclavian artery
Answer: a
Question 3: The basic hemodynamic fault in a patent ductus arteriosus is a -to- shunt at the
pulmonary artery level
a. right, left
b. left, right
c. superior, inferior
d. inferior, superior
Answer: b
Question 4: Which of the following statements is not true if viewing the heart through a median
sternotomy?
a. the right atrioventricular sulcus may bee seen
b. the left atrium is predominant
c. the apex point anteriorly
d. the inter ventricular sulcus may be visualized
Answer: b
Question 5: The posterior hepatic vein connects to the
a. inferior vena cava
b. hemiazygous system
c. azygous system
d. accessory-azygous system
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, Answer: a
Question 6: What is the most common type of valvular defect?
a. AI
b. AS
c. MI
d. MS
Answer: d
Question 7: Which of the following is not evident in Tetralogy of Fallot?
a. VSD
b. pulmonary stenosis
c. ASD
d. overriding aorta
e. RV hypertrophy
Answer: c
Question 8: Of the following arteries, which is most superior?
a. Celiac
b. Mesenteric
c. Renal
d. Iliac
Answer: a
Question 9: Where is the most common site for a coarctation of the aorta?
a. ascending aorta distal to the coronary ostia
b. transverse aorta between the innominate and the carotid arteries
c. descending aorta distal to the subclavian artery
d. ascending aorta proximal to the innominate artery
Answer: c
Question 10: Closure of the small valve that overlies the foramen ovale in the (A-atrial,
V-ventricular) septum is associated with (D-decreased, I-increased) right chamber pressure
a. A, D
b. A, I
c. V, D
d. V, I
Answer: a
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,Question 11: Which of the following is not true?
a. sinusoids are a type of capillary
b. the intimal of veins and arteries is continuous with the capillary endothelium
c. the opening of a precapillary sphincter will force blood to flow through arteriovenous shunts
d. the vaso-vasorum is the blood supply for the tunica adventitia of veins and arteries
Answer: c
Question 12: Which of the following statements is true?
a. the SA nodal branch of the RCA is almost always responsible for the blood supply to the SA node
b. the major blood supply of the septum is the circumflex artery
c. cardiac venous blood drains either into the coronary sinus or directly into the right atrium
d. metarterioles and arteriovenous anastomoses both circumvent the capillary beds
Answer: c
Question 13: Which of the following arteries would be found in the posterior interventricular sulcus?
a. posterior descending artery
b. left circumflex
c. acute marginal branch
d. distal portion the obtuse marginal branch
Answer: a
Question 14: Pick the most correct statement:
a. the Rastelli procedure is a cath lab technique in which a balloon catheter is used to enlarge or
create an ASD
b. the Fontan operation facilitates complete correction of tricuspid atresia by placement of a tube
graft conduit between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery system
c. a VSD is necessary for survival in a child born with tricuspid atresia
d. a Blalock-Hanlon procedure creates an enlarged ASD and is done under cardiopulmonary bypass
Answer: c
Question 15: Which valve is commonly replaced with IHSS?
a. tricuspid
b. pulmonary
c. mitral
d. aortic
Answer: c
Question 16: The initiation of respiration in the newborn infant pulmonary vascular resistance and
the pulmonary arterial pressure (I-increase, D-decrease)
a. I, I
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, b. I, D
c. D, I
d. D, D
Answer: d
Question 17: In a Waterston-Cooley shunt you create a/an:
a. VSD
b. aorta-pulmonary window
c. ASD
d. subclavian to PA shunt
Answer: b
Question 18: A PFO in a newborn can be categorized as what type of shunt?
a. restrictive
b. non-restrictive
c. complex
d. cyanotic
Answer: b
Question 19: Which of the following is a type III endocardial cushion defect?
a. ostium primum defect
b. ostium primum defect with a cleft in the mitral and tricuspid leaflet
c. atrioventricular communis
d. sinus venosus
Answer: c
Question 20: Which type of VSD is located between the pulmonary valve and the crista
supraventricularis?
a. Type I
b. Type II
c. Type III
d. Type IV
Answer: a
Question 21: Regarding a VSD, which is correct?
a. the type I defect is located in the muscular septum
b. early in life, the direction of shunt across a VSD (in the absence of other anomalies) will be right to
left
c. cyanosis due to a right to left shunt across a VSD can occur when the pulmonary vascular
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