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DVT423-TC5
USIDMS Renal Doppler
Question | Answer |
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What is the Renal Doppler patient prep? | Overnight fast, morning exam, diabetic patients may eat dry toast and clear liquids, no chewing gum/tobacco/no smoking prior to exam |
What type of Renal Doppler exam interrogates the entire renal artery, bilaterally? | Direct method |
What are Renal Doppler indications | Uncontrolled hypertension, decreasing renal function, abdominal bruit |
What may arise form the aorta above or below the main renal arteries? | Accessory (Polar) renal arteries |
What is the purpose of renal Doppler exams? | Identifying vascular etiology of hypertension |
What arteries branch from the interlobars and turn at the cortico-medullary junction | Arcuate arteries |
What evaluates only the segmental renal arteries? | Indirect renal Doppler method |
What is the #1 etiology of renal artery disease? | Atherosclerosis |
What is the #2 etiology of renal artery disease? | Fibromuscular dysplasia |
What age group does fibromuscular dysplasia primarily affect? | Women from 25-50 |