Quizzies Exam 1 Flashcards
Which of the following causes more clinically significant vascular disorders?
a. Arterial lesions (large to medium sized)
b. Venous lesions
arterial lesions
The tunica media is separated from tunica adventitia by the ______.
a. Endothelium
b. Tunica intima
c. Internal elastic lamina
d. External elastic lamina
external elastic lamina
Atherosclerosis is most likely to involve which of the following?
a. Small arteries (arterioles)
b. Large elastic arteries
c. Postcapillary venules
d. Collecting venules
large elastic arteries
Which layer of the vessel wall contains endothelial cells?
a. Tunica intima
b. Tunica media
c. Tunica adventitia
d. External elastic lamina
tunica intima
Which % of general population has hypertension?
25%
Which of following is standard response following vascular injury?
a. Medial thickening
b. Intimal thickening
c. Intimal narrowing
d. Adventitial narrowing
intimal thickening
Which of the following is not a category of arteriosclerosis?
a. Arteriolosclerosis
b. Monckenberg meidal sclerosis
c. Endothliloslceroiss
d. Atherosclerosis
endothliloslceroisis
Without appropriate treatment, _______ of hypertensive individuals will die from a stroke?
a. 10%
b. 30%
c. 50%
d. 70%
30%
Following vascular injury, extracellular matrix and ______ accumulate within tunica intima?
a. Edema
b. Smooth muscle cells
c. Transudate
d. Skeletal muscle cells
smooth muscle cells
Which of the following is not considered to be a major clinical consequence of atherosclerosis
a. Myocardial infarction
b. Neovascularization
c. Peripheral vascular disease
d. Aortic aneurysm
neovascularization
The 2 key features of atheroma development are intimal thickening and lipid accumulation
a. True
b. False
true
Which of the following are not considered to be a component of a foam cell?
a. T cells
b. Necrotic debris
c. Macrophages
d. B cells
B cells
Virtually everyone older than ______ years will demonstrate the presence of fatty streaks on theluminal surface of their arteries.
a. 10
b. 25
c. 35
d. 45
10
Metabolic syndrome is not associated with which of the following?
a. Insulin resistance
b. Dyslipidemia
c. Foam cells
d. Central obesity
foam cells
Less than 5% of abdominal aortic aneurysms occur in males older than _______.
a. 20
b. 30
c. 40
d. 60
60
When blood splays apart the laminar planes of the media to form a blood-filled channel within theaortic wall, it is termed a _______.
a. True aneurysm
b. False aneurysm
c. Saccular aneurysm
d. Vascular dissection
vascular dissection
The 2 MC pathogenic mechanisms of vasculitis are immune-mediated inflammation and _________.
a. Physical trauma
b. Exposure to toxins
c. Irradiation
d. Direct vascular infection
direct vascular infection
Which type of aortic dissection may be managed without surgery?
a. Debakey I
b. II
c. III
d. IV
III
An abdominal aortic measuring 5.7 cm in diameter is at a(n) _____ risk of rupture each year.
a. 1
b. 11
c. 22
d. 25
11
The mortality rate for elective AAA surgery is _____, while the rate for emergency surgery is 50%.
a. 1%
b. 5%
c. 15%
d. 25%
5%