Abdominal Vasculature - Part 3

Question 1

GDA

Answer 1

Gastroduodenal artery

Question 2

What does the GDA a branch of?

Answer 2

The common hepatic artery

Question 3

What does the GDA lie between?

Answer 3

The superior portion of the duodenum and the anterior surface of the
pancreatic head

Question 4

What does the common hepatic artery branch off of?

Answer 4

The celiac axis

Question 5

What does the common hepatic artery give rise to?

Answer 5

GDA

Question 6

What does the common hepatic artery name change to after it gives rise the the GDA?

Answer 6

Proper hepatic artery

Question 7

Where does the hepatic artery course?

Answer 7

Adjacent to the portal vein

Question 8

What does the proper hepatic artery bifurcate into? Where?

Answer 8

Bifurcates into the right and left hepatic arteries

At the hepatic hilum

Question 9

What does the right hepatic artery give rise to?

Answer 9

Cystic artery

Question 10

What does the cystic artery supply?

Answer 10

GB

Question 11

What kind of resistance is in the hepatic artery?

Answer 11

Low-resistance blood flow

- with continuous flow through diastole

Question 12

What is increased flow in the hepatic artery associated with? (3)

Answer 12

1. Jaundice
2. Cirrhosis, lymphoma
3. Metastases

Question 13

What does the left gastric artery a branch of?

Answer 13

Common hepatic artery

Question 14

Where does the left gastric artery course?

Answer 14

Toward the left to supply the stomach

Question 15

Where does the left gastric artery often originate from?

Answer 15

From the splenic artery

Question 16

What does the splenic artery a branch of?

Answer 16

Celiac axis

Question 17

What does the splenic artery give rise to?

Answer 17

The left gastroepiploic artery and additional branches to the pancreas
and stomach

Question 18

Where does the splenic artery course?

Answer 18

Along the superior margin of the pancreatic body and tail

Question 19

What kind of resistance is seen in the splenic artery?

Answer 19

Low-resistance blood flow

- with continuous flow through diastole

Question 20

What can the splenic artery be mistaken for?

Answer 20

A dilated pancreatic duct

Question 21

Where is the IVC formed?

Answer 21

At the junction of the right and left common iliac veins

Question 22

What does the IVC carry?

Answer 22

Oxygen-depleted blood from the body superiorly to the right atrium of the heart

Question 23

What are the major abdominal branches of the IVC? (6)

Answer 23

1. Lumbar veins
2. Right gonadal vein
3. Renal veins
4. Right suprarenal vein
5. Inferior phrenic vein
6. Hepatic veins

Question 24

What are the main venous tributaries? (3)

Answer 24

1. Common iliac veins
2. Renal veins
3. Hepatic veins

Question 25

What does the common iliac veins drain?

Answer 25

Blood from the lower extremities and pelvis

Question 26

Where is the common iliac veins formed?

Answer 26

At the junction of the external and internal iliac veins

Question 27

Where does the renal veins course?

Answer 27

Anterior to the renal arteries

Question 28

Where does the left renal vein course compared to the SMA and abdominal aorta?

Answer 28

Posterior to the superior mesenteric artery Anterior to the abdominal aorta

Question 29

What kind of flow is demonstrated by the renal veins?

Answer 29

Spontaneous phasic blood flow

Question 30

Where does the right hepatic vein course?

Answer 30

Coronally between the anterior and posterior segments of the right hepatic lobe

Question 31

Where does the middle hepatic vein course?

Answer 31

Oblique course between the left and right hepatic | lobes

Question 32

Where does the left hepatic vein course?

Answer 32

Posterior between the medial and lateral segments of the left hepatic lobe

Question 33

What does doppler demonstrate in the hepatic veins?

Answer 33

Spontaneous, multiphasic, and pulsatile blood flow toward the IVC - hepatofugal

Question 34

What happens to the blood flow in the hepatic veins during inspiration?

Answer 34

Increase in blood flow

Question 35

What happens to the blood flow in the hepatic veins during valsalva maneuver?

Answer 35

Diminished blood flow