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3 causes of venous thrombosis also called, Virchow's Triad -
Correct Answer ✅Venous stasis, trauma/endothelial
damage, hypercoagulability
Venous stasis - Correct Answer ✅Slowed blood flow in
veins. Caused by immobility, myocardial infarction, CHF,
hypotension, COPD, obesity, pregnancy, previous DVT,
extrinsic compression, SVC syndrome, paraplegia, surgery
associated conditions.
2 types of Trauma/endothelial damage - Correct Answer
✅Intrinsic and extrinsic
Intrinsic trauma is - Correct Answer ✅Damage to the
vessel wall from intravenous drugs or a catheter. Increased
use of PICC line results in higher incidence of upper extremity
thrombus, usually developing at most proximal portion of
PICC line.
Extrinsic trauma is - Correct Answer ✅Damage caused by
an accident, which can occur at any site of the body.
Hypercoagulability is associated with - Correct Answer
✅Pregnancy, cancer, oral contraceptives and/or hormone
replacement therapy, inherited states,e.g., factor V Leiden or
protein C, protein S, or Antithrombin III deficiency
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Sensitivity, and
How to calculate? - Correct Answer ✅-Ability of a test to
detect disease, how many tests are correctly called positive.
- # of true positives divided by # of all positive tests by gold
standard, or TP/TP+FN
Specificity, and how to calculate? - Correct Answer ✅-
Ability of a test to identify normality, or how many results
were correctly called negative.
- # of true negative divided by # of all negative tests by gold
standard, or TN/TN+FP
Positive predictive value, and how to calculate? - Correct
Answer ✅-percentage of test results that accurately predict
abnormality, or what % correctly predicted disease.
- # of true positive test divided by # of all positive tests, or
TP/TP+FP
Negative predictive value, and how to calculate? - Correct
Answer ✅- percentage of test results that accurately predict
normality, or what % correctly predicted absence of disease.
- # of true negatives divided by # of all negative tests, or
TN/TN+FN
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Accuracy, and how to calculate? - Correct Answer ✅- % of
correct tests, or how well does the test both detect and rule
out disease.
- total # of correct tests divided by total # of all tests, or
TP+TN/TP+FP+FN+TN
Brachiocephalic/ Innominate vien formed from confluence of?
- Correct Answer ✅Subclavien and Internal jugular vein
Vascular disease more common in women? - Correct
Answer ✅Takayasu's arteritis-tennage to young women
more common.
FMD- younger women.
Celiac band syndrome- young athletic women.
Vascular disease more common in men? - Correct Answer
✅Obliteritis angitis(bergers disease)- younger <40 men,
heavy smokers.
Popliteal artery entrapment syndrome- young athletic men.
Celiac artery supplies blood to what organs? - Correct
Answer ✅Stomach, liver, pancreas, duodenum, and spleen.
Celiac artery branches into? - Correct Answer ✅Left
gastric, splenic, common hepatic arteries.