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$100 $200 $300 $400 $500 A BCDE

$100 This is exclusively associated with cigarette smoking and more prevalent in the Middle East and Asia

(Thromboangiitis obliterans )Buerger's disease

$200 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” $300

Pain, pallor, pulselessness, paresthesias, and paralysis.

$400 Aneurysms that affect only part of the arterial circumference are termed

Saccular.

$500 There is increased expression and activity of in the wall of aortic aneurysms

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs)

$100

Bulldog clamps

$200 In AAAs, MMP activation favors degradation of what 2 substances.

Elastin and collagen

$300 The most common aneurysms with symmetrical enlargement involving the whole circumference of the artery

Spindle-shaped fusiform aneurysms

$400 The annual risk for rupture of an AAA between 4 and 5.4 cm.

About 0.5% to 1%

$500 This is approached through a anterolateral incision between the tibialis anterior and the extensor hallucis longus muscles.

Anterior tibial artery

$100 Small intradermal varicosities

Telangiectasias

$200 Left-sided medial visceral rotation exposes the entire length of the abdominal aorta and its branches.

Mattox maneuver

$300 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

$400 ePTFE

Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene

$500

Castroviejo

$100

Potts Scissors

$200

Satinsky clamp

$300 ?

External carotid artery

$400 Name the technique!

Eversion endarterectomy

$500 Opium alkaloid used primarily in the treatment of visceral spasm.

Papaverine

$ 100 Blood flow into the aneurysm sac due to incomplete seal or ineffective seal at the end of the graft

Type I endoleak

$ 200 The 5-year patency rate for PTA of common iliac lesions.

70% to 80%

$ 300 Five-year patency rates for external iliac disease.

50%-60%

$ 400 Dates back to 1991 when Juan Parodi introduced this revolutionary treatment.

Endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR)

$ 500 One of the EVAR criteria is : The angle between the normal aorta above and the aneurysm below must be less than _____%

60%.

Final Jeopardy

Surgical History

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

Thomas Fogarty

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