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| What type of imaging study will show a general overveiw of anatomy and gross pathology? |
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| What assists in the detection of cardiomegaly, pulmonary vascular congestion, aortic disease (aneurysm, coarctation)? |
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| What imaging study does not give accurate assessment of chamber size/irregularity? |
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| You should not use a portable Xray maching to estimate what? |
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| What direction of CXR should you use to estimate the heart size? |
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| In Massive cardiomegaly, the borders of the heart exceed ____ the diameter of the chest. |
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| What typically shows up in the shape of "bat wings" on a CXR? |
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| What shows up on an CXR when one has dilated lymphatics of the lung due to increased interstitial fluid – most times due to Heart Failure? |
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| L Ventricular Hypertrophy |
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| What is happening when the CXR shows the L ventricle buldging out? |
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Echocardiography
*digital or stress |
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| What type of imaging detects congenital, valves, HF, and detects perfusion abnormalities – CHD? |
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| Radionucleotide Stress Testing & Echoardiography |
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| What two imaging studies detect perfusion abnormalities? |
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| What is the Multiple Gated Acquisition "MUGA" scan used to detect? |
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| What is the best test to detect calcified coronary plaques? |
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| Percutaneous Catheter Angiography |
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| What type of procedure is done now for people who would have previously had to have open surgery for? |
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| Frequency of sound from an ultrasound is how much? |
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travels thru
*until it hits a harder surface under it then it bounces back |
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| Does US travel thru or bounce off of liquid? |
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poorly
*it can get in the way of an US |
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| Does air conduct sound well or poorly? |
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| What type of pt would you NOT be able to use an ECHO on? |
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| What type of imaging study gets the closest to the heart? |
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| What type of imagining is useful for detecting pericardial effusion, valvular dysfunction/stenosis or insuffiency? |
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| What should you do next if you hear a heart murmur? |
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| What type of test is best for evaluating chamber size and wall thickness? |
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valve: mitral
Ventricle: L |
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What valve is the closest to the Trans-Esophageal Echo when done?
What ventricle is? |
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| What type of imaging can compare the movement of the ventricular walls at rest and during stress/exercise? |
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Yes
*It will NOT work during exercise |
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| Will myocardium that is ischemic work during rest? |
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| When will myocardium that is infarcted not work, during stress or exercise? |
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Dobutamine
*B1 adrenergic effect increases inotropy and O2 demand |
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| If a pt is unable to exercise for a stress echo, what drug would you give to "stress" the heart? |
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| reversible coronary ischemia |
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| What can a stress echo detect about 90% accurately? |
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| Optical Frequency Domain Imaging (OFDI) |
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| What type of imaging has a fiberoptic probe with a constantly rotating laser tip emits a light beam with an ever-changing wavelength? |
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| What drug would you use for a technetium sestamibi SPECT stress test if the pt cannot exercise? |
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| Technetium Sestamibi SPECT stress test |
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| What type of test identifies areas of reversible ischemia upon stress and demonstrates areas of old infarct in the resting state? |
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arteriogram
*can give exact locations of a lesion. SPECT cannot |
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| Which test is more precise, a technetium sestamibi SPECT stress test or an arteriogram? |
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| Technitium sestimibi SPECT stress test |
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| What test is unable to detect valvular disease, chamber and wall dimensions? |
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