FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY EXAM
2025 BRAND NEW ACTUAL EXAM
WITH ANSWERS.
1. In the three vessel view...
a) all vessels should be the same size
b) aorta should be smaller than the SVC and PA
c) the PA should be smaller than the aorta and SVC
d) the SVC should be smaller than the aorta and PA -
correct answer -d) the SVC should be smaller than the
aorta and PA
2. The first organ to function during fetal development is the
a) liver
b) lungs
c) heart
d) skin - correct answer -c) heart
3. The heart normally loops
a) anteriorly and leftward
b) anteriorly and rightward
c) posterior and leftward
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d) posterior and rightward - correct answer -b) anteriorly
and rightward
4. Right or left isomerism with an unpredictable situs arrangement
defintes
a) ambiguous
b) dextrocardia
c) mesocardia
d) mealposition - correct answer -a) ambiguous
5. Polysplenia is associated with ______ atrial isomerism - correct
answer -Left
6. In dextrocardia, the heart loops ______ - correct answer -
anterior and leftward
7. During D-looping, the primitive atria and sinus venosus moves
____________ - correct answer -superior and posterior
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8. At 21-23 days, the heart tube is connected to the _______ at
the cephalic end and the _______ at the caudal end of the
embryo
a) primitive atrium/primitive ventricle
b) bulbus cordis/sinus venosus
c) pharyngeal arch arteries/sinus venosus
d) sinus venosus/truncus arteriosus - correct answer -c)
pharyngeal arch arteries/sinus venosus
9. The fetal heart tube fuses and merges by day ____
a) one
b) seven
c) fourteen
d) twenty one - correct answer -d) twenty one
10. The primitive ventricle is usually a morphologic
a) right ventricle
b) left ventricle
c) septum primum
d) endocardial cushions - correct answer -b) left ventricle
11. During atrial septation, perforations develop deptum primum
resulting in
a) ostium primum
b) foramen ovale