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ARDMS Adult Echo Board Prep with 100- correct answers 2025.
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ARDMS Adult Echo Board Prepwith 100% correct answers
2025
Dilated CMO Finding on M-Mode: - answer B-Notch
(= due to increased LVEDP)
2D of post-cardiac transplant will show: - answer enlarged LA and RA
HCM EF: - answer 70-80%
Hemochromatosis (restrictive CMO) is excessive: - answer iron
A CMO is a disease that affects what layer of the heart: - answer
myocardium
HCMO has what kind of gradient: - answer late peaking systolic gradient
Dilated CMO symptoms: - answer dyspnea
syncope
tachycardia
(NOT migraine headaches)
Moderate AS (what exceeds what): - answer LV systolic pressure exceeds
AO
Raphe is seen with: - answer BAV
,Raphe definition: - answer a fused commissure line between 2 or 3 aortic
leaflets in a typical BAV.
usually 86% are between the right and left AO leaflets
Severe TR results in: - answer dilated IVC
RVVO
systolic murmur
(NOT PHTN)
MR in patients with rheumatic MS is due to: - answer LAE
(bc annulus stretches)
MS complications: - answer possible PHTN
increased LAP
scarring of MV apparatus
(NOT dilated LV)
A common method for calculating MVA: - answer doppler PHT
A pt has RVSP of 60 mmHg. One year later the RVSP is 30 mmHg. What
happened to this patient? - answer RV infarction
Valve lesion with the highest Doppler peak velocity: - answer MR
(usually 4-5 m/sec)
What is NOT an Ischemic Heart Disease risk factor:
sex (gender)
PHTN
age
systemic HTN
,smoking - answer PHTN
What is NOT an epicardial fat association:
associated with CAD
a measure of visceral fat
posterior echo-free space
anterior echo-free space - answer posterior echo-free space
a small pericardial effusion: - answer less than 1 cm posteriorly only
cardiac tamponade causes: - answer restrictive diastolic filling
LA thrombus seen in pts w/: - answer MS (especially LAA)
stress echo captures: - answer REST & IMPOST
Inferior MI: - answer papillary muscle rupture
Coronary artery that supplies IAS: - answer RCA
Systolic murmur after MI: - answer VSD
A pt w/ myocarditis will have: - answer ventricular dysfunction
percent stenosis considered significant CAD: - answer 70%
What is NOT an Infiltrative CMO:
Hemochromatosis
Carcinoid
sarcoidosis
, amyloidosis - answer carcinoid
LV thrombus will be most likely found in an area of: - answer abnormal
wall motion
A loculated pericardial effusion is rare except for pts w/: - answer post-op
cardiac surgery (or metastatic disease)
Papillary muscle dysfunction usually results from: - answer ischemic
heart disease
What is NOT a cause of MR:
dressler's Syndrome
post MI LVD
Papillary muscle rupture
papillary muscle infarction - answer Dressler's Syndrome
PLAX missing AV would be considered for: - answer truncus arteriosus
Pts develop Eisenmenger's syndrome bc: - answer pulmonary pressures
now exceed systemic
(higher than pts systolic BP)
Normal systemic systolic pressure: - answer 100-140 mmHg
Classic M-Mode findings in pts w/ PHTN: - answer absent "a" wave on
pulmonic valve
Tetralogy of Fallot: - answer large VSD
PS (often infundibular)
RVH
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