ARDMS ABDOMEN EXAM PREP KIT WITH
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What is suggested with a high resistance hepatic artery post liver
transplant? Correct Answer venous congestion or organ rejection
What type of waveform suggests a proximal anastomotic hepatic
artery stenosis? Correct Answer Parvus Tardus
What tethers the liver to the abdominal wall? Correct Answer
Falciform ligament
What ligament suspends the liver from the diaphragm? Correct
Answer Coronary ligament
The coronary ligaments surrounds what? Correct Answer The
bare area of the liver
Hepatomegaly is liver length greater than... Correct Answer 15.5
cm
An inferior projection of the right lobe of the liver is termed what?
Correct Answer Reidel's lobe
A reidels lobe is More common in ___ Correct Answer women
Reidel's lobe has to do with which lobe of the liver? Correct
Answer Right
Echogenicity of normal abdominal anatomy from hyper to
hypoechoic: Correct Answer Renal sinus, Pancreas,
Liver/Spleen, Renal Cortex
,Calcifications within the liver and spleen are termed... Correct
Answer Granulomas
What are granulomas caused by? Correct Answer histoplasmosis
and tuberculosis
liver inflammation resulting from infectious or non-infectious
agents is termed... Correct Answer Hepatitis
What lab values are elevated with hepatitis? Correct Answer
ALT, AST, conjugated ad unconjugated bilirubin
How is hepatitis A transmitted? Correct Answer Fecal-Oral route
How is hepatitis B transmitted? Correct Answer Blood/body fluids
How is hepatitis C transmitted? Correct Answer Blood/body fluids
What is the most common cause of hepatitis C today? Correct
Answer sharing needles to inject drugs
What pathology is associated with "Starry Night" appearance,
Hypoechoic tissue, enlargement, and hyperechoic portal vein
walls? Correct Answer Acute Hepatitis
What pathology is associated with hyperechoic liver, small liver,
and decreased echogenicity of the portal vein walls? Correct
Answer Chronic Hepatitis
What is the most common source of pyogenic (bacterial) liver
abscess? Correct Answer Biliary tract disease
Which lobe of the liver is most commonly affected in the case of a
pyogenic abscess? Correct Answer Right
, If you see an air filled mass in the liver, what should you
immediately think? Correct Answer Pyogenic abscess
What is needed to confirm diagnosis of a pyogenic abscess?
Correct Answer Aspiration
What is the most common form of liver abscess? Correct Answer
Pyogenic
If a patient who has recently traveled outside of the US comes in
and you see a liver abscess, what type of abscess should you
think it is? Correct Answer Amebic Abscess
an amebic abscess may reach the liver through the Correct
Answer portal vein
Early presentation of a wheel within a wheel in the liver is
common with what pathology? Correct Answer Fungal Abscess
(Candidiasis)
When the hypoechoic center calcifies within the "wheel within a
wheel" appearance of a fungal liver abscess, what is the new
lesion appearance described as? Correct Answer Bull's eye
What is the most common presentation of a fungal abscess in the
liver? Correct Answer uniformly hypoechoic focus
An echinococcal cyst is also known as... Correct Answer Hydatid
disease
What type of relationship is described with an echinococcal cyst?
Correct Answer Carnivore-herbivore relationship, or dog-sheep
cycle
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