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21 Cards in this Set
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1. The two major criteria for the diagnosis of endocarditis are Echo evaluation of the endocardial involvement and: |
Persistent bacterium |
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2. On 2D echocardiography, which features do not typify a valvular vegetation |
Downstream attachment |
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3. Aortic valve vegetations are most often detected in which of the following views? |
PLAX |
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4. A vegetation that causes the rapid oscillation motion can be appreciated on |
M-MODE |
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5. Aortic valve is associated with normal structures that can be mistaken for vegetation. What are these structures called? |
Nodule of Aransas lambl's excrescence |
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6. Which valve is associated with vegetation due to IV drug use? |
Tricuspid valve |
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7. Which of the following is the most common origin of metastatic cardiac tumor |
Lungs |
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8. Cardiac malignancies most often involve which area of the heart? |
Epicardium |
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9. Where is metastatic disease rarely seen? |
In the endocardium |
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10. What percentage of primary cardiac tumors are benign? |
75% |
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11. I'd malignant vs benign tumors. |
. |
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12. What is the most common abnormality of the aorta |
Dilation |
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13. Which of the following will result in a water balloon appearance of the proximal aorta |
Loeys-Dietz syndrome |
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14. An aneurysm of the left coronary cusp will protrude into the blank |
LA |
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15. Your patient has atherosclerosis in the aorta, what could this be a marker for |
Coronary artery disease |
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16. Which setting control is useful in obtaining normal flow patterns of the descending aorta |
Well filter |
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17. Measurements of the ascending aorta corresponds to what phase of the EKG |
Most reliable at and diastole |
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18. Identify the sinus of valsalva aortic root sign of Jupiter Duck shirt and the ascending aorta |
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19. How is corrected transposition described |
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Which of the following is not considered a characteristic of a complex atheroma |
Uniform echogenicity |
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And interatrial septum aneurysm is defined as a transient bulging of the fossa ovalis region where total Excursion of the septal plane exceeds |
15 mm |