Vascular Trivia

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This is exclusively associated with cigarette smoking and more prevalent in the Middle East and Asia

(Thromboangiitis obliterans )Buerger's disease

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ABI range for claudicants

0.5 to 0.7 range

The classic presentation of patients with acute ischemia of the extremities may be recalled by the “five Ps”

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Pain, pallor, pulselessness, paresthesias, and paralysis.

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Aneurysms that affect only part of the arterial circumference are termed

Saccular.

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There is increased expression and activity of -------------------- in the wall of aortic aneurysms

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs)

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Bulldog clamps

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In AAAs, MMP activation favors degradation of what 2 substances.

Elastin and collagen

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The most common aneurysms with symmetrical enlargement involving the whole circumference of the artery

Spindle-shaped fusiform aneurysms

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The annual risk for rupture of an AAA between 4 and 5.4 cm.

About 0.5% to 1%

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This is approached through a anterolateral incision between the tibialis anterior and the extensor hallucis longus muscles.

Anterior tibial artery

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Small intradermal varicosities

Telangiectasias

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Left-sided medial visceral rotation exposes the entire length of the abdominal aorta and its branches.

Mattox maneuver

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This is exposed below the knee through a medial approach, and dissection is continued distally by detaching the soleus muscle from the posterior border of the tibia.

Distal popliteal artery

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ePTFE

Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene

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CastroviejoCastroviejo

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Potts Scissors

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Satinsky clamp

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External carotid artery

$400Name the technique!

Eversion endarterectomy

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Opium alkaloid used primarily in the treatment of visceral spasm.

Papaverine

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Blood flow into the aneurysm sac due to incomplete seal or ineffective seal at the end of the graft

Type I endoleak

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The 5-year patency rate for PTA of common iliac lesions.

70% to 80%

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Five-year patency rates for external iliac disease.

50%-60%

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Dates back to 1991 when Juan Parodi introduced this revolutionary

treatment .

Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR)

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One of the EVAR criteria is : The angle between the normal aorta above and the aneurysm below must be less than _____%

60%.

Final JeopardyFinal Jeopardy

Surgical HistorySurgical History

In 1963, he received a patent for his balloon catheter.

Thomas Fogarty

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