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ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY STUDY GUIDEEXAM
Endocarditis - Answer Inflammation of the inner heart wall and valves
Aortic stenosis: Narrowing of the aorta.
Fusiform aneurysm - ANSWER Bulges or protrudes from all sides of the blood
vessel.
Saccular aneurysm - ANSWER Bulges on one side of the vessel
Aortic regurgitation: ANSWER Leaking backward flow
Cardiomyopathy is a disease affecting the heart's muscles.
Ebstein's anomaly - Answer The displacement of the septal and posterior tv leaflets
high in the ventricle causes a wide right atrium and can cause TR.
Mitral regurgitation: ANSWER Backward flow at mv during systole.
Ischemia - ANSWER Insufficient blood supply.
Ischemic cascade - ANSWER A stress echo is used to detect a series of metabolic
processes that begin in the brain after seconds to minutes of ischemia.
PTCA = percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
, ST segment: ANSWER represents the interval between ventricular depolarization
and repolarization.
Dipyridamole - A blood thinner and vasodilator.
Adenosine - Anti-arrhythmic agent.
Dobutamine - ANSWER Blood pressure support
Left anterior descent (lad) - ANSWER Blood supply to the ant wall, ant septum,
and the LV apex.
ANSWER: The left circumflex supplies blood to the lateral and posterior walls.
Right coronaries - ANSWER Blood is supplied to the inf wall, inf septum, RV
apex, RV free wall, and, most commonly, the SA and AV nodes.
Right dominance - answer This is when the RCA gives rise to the post-descending
artery. 85 percent of the time.
Hyperkinesis - Answer More than usual wall motion.
Hypokinesis - Answer Less than average wall motion
Akinesis - Answer No motion, no thickening.
Dyskinesis - Answer Motion in the opposite direction from usual
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