CCI RVS Exam (New 2024/ 2025) More than
200 Questions and Verified Answers| 100%
Correct- A Grade
QUESTION
In the US, the most common cause of portal hypertension is
Answer:
cirrhosis
QUESTION
The Splanchnic arteries are?
And where do they supply blood?
Answer:
Celiac artery, SMA and IMA.
They supply blood to the gut.
QUESTION
Define chronic mesenteric ischemia
Answer:
caused by inability of blood to reach the intestines due to stenosis or occlusion of the SMA, CA
or IMA, postprandial abdomnal pain.
QUESTION
Define portal hypertension
Answer:
,Caused by an incresed blood pressure in the portral vein usually resulting from an increased
resistancee to blood flow caused by cirrhosis, trauma, previous thrombus, small portal vein
radicals, hepatic parenchyma and hepatic veins.
QUESTION
When examining a patient with weight loss, post, prandial, pain, and an abdominal bruit, what
vessel is most likely to be partly responsible
Answer:
SMA through CA and IMA may be involved
QUESTION
Patient presents with an enlarged coronary vein with retrograde flow. What is the finding?
Answer:
Portal, hypertension
QUESTION
True or false
non-invasive diagnosis of renal arteries stenosis can be made by B mode images of
atherosclerotic plaque
Answer:
False - it required a duplex system of spectrum analysis
QUESTION
What abdominal artery demonstrates higher, diastolic flow post prandial
Answer:
SMA
,QUESTION
Normal arterial waveforms, and the renal hilum are high resistance or low resistance?
Answer:
low resistance
QUESTION
Proximal renal arteries stenosis, greater than 60% is diagnosed when
Answer:
Systolic renal/ aortic velocity ratio is greater than 3.5
QUESTION
What will happen to the Doppler signal from the subclavian vein during inspiration?
Answer:
It will augment
QUESTION
What will pulsatile Venus Doppler from the portal veins suggest
Answer:
Portal, hypertension
QUESTION
True or false
In duplex assessment of the portal vein flow is normally continuous with respiration
Answer:
False
it is normally phasic with respiration
, QUESTION
Is a normal spectral wave form from the hepatic veins
unidirectional or bidirectional
Answer:
Bidirectional
QUESTION
Define TIPS
Answer:
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt or (TIPS) is a shunt (tube) placed between the
portal vein which carries blood from the intestines and intraabdominal organs to the liver and the
hepatic vein which carries blood from the liver back to the vena cava and the heart.
QUESTION
The TIPS procedure relieves, excess pressure from what abdominal abnormality
Answer:
portal hypertension
QUESTION
What is the most common cause for impotence
Answer:
vascular disease
QUESTION
When scanning a newly transplanted kidney, you see patency in both renal artery/vein.... when
scanning the intrarenal arteries there is only systolic flow. What is happening?
200 Questions and Verified Answers| 100%
Correct- A Grade
QUESTION
In the US, the most common cause of portal hypertension is
Answer:
cirrhosis
QUESTION
The Splanchnic arteries are?
And where do they supply blood?
Answer:
Celiac artery, SMA and IMA.
They supply blood to the gut.
QUESTION
Define chronic mesenteric ischemia
Answer:
caused by inability of blood to reach the intestines due to stenosis or occlusion of the SMA, CA
or IMA, postprandial abdomnal pain.
QUESTION
Define portal hypertension
Answer:
,Caused by an incresed blood pressure in the portral vein usually resulting from an increased
resistancee to blood flow caused by cirrhosis, trauma, previous thrombus, small portal vein
radicals, hepatic parenchyma and hepatic veins.
QUESTION
When examining a patient with weight loss, post, prandial, pain, and an abdominal bruit, what
vessel is most likely to be partly responsible
Answer:
SMA through CA and IMA may be involved
QUESTION
Patient presents with an enlarged coronary vein with retrograde flow. What is the finding?
Answer:
Portal, hypertension
QUESTION
True or false
non-invasive diagnosis of renal arteries stenosis can be made by B mode images of
atherosclerotic plaque
Answer:
False - it required a duplex system of spectrum analysis
QUESTION
What abdominal artery demonstrates higher, diastolic flow post prandial
Answer:
SMA
,QUESTION
Normal arterial waveforms, and the renal hilum are high resistance or low resistance?
Answer:
low resistance
QUESTION
Proximal renal arteries stenosis, greater than 60% is diagnosed when
Answer:
Systolic renal/ aortic velocity ratio is greater than 3.5
QUESTION
What will happen to the Doppler signal from the subclavian vein during inspiration?
Answer:
It will augment
QUESTION
What will pulsatile Venus Doppler from the portal veins suggest
Answer:
Portal, hypertension
QUESTION
True or false
In duplex assessment of the portal vein flow is normally continuous with respiration
Answer:
False
it is normally phasic with respiration
, QUESTION
Is a normal spectral wave form from the hepatic veins
unidirectional or bidirectional
Answer:
Bidirectional
QUESTION
Define TIPS
Answer:
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt or (TIPS) is a shunt (tube) placed between the
portal vein which carries blood from the intestines and intraabdominal organs to the liver and the
hepatic vein which carries blood from the liver back to the vena cava and the heart.
QUESTION
The TIPS procedure relieves, excess pressure from what abdominal abnormality
Answer:
portal hypertension
QUESTION
What is the most common cause for impotence
Answer:
vascular disease
QUESTION
When scanning a newly transplanted kidney, you see patency in both renal artery/vein.... when
scanning the intrarenal arteries there is only systolic flow. What is happening?
