March 2023 JVU: SVU 2022 Annual Conference - Abstracts Selected for Poster Session

Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 12:00 AM - Saturday, February 28, 2026, 11:00 PM, Online Course

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.50 hours), AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Designated (0.50 hours)


This issue contains a letter to the editor, a review on the IAC QI self-assessment tool, the usefulness of the external carotid artery in detecting internal carotid artery stenosis, a review of transcranial Doppler in detecting a patent foramen ovale, various abstracts selected for the SVU Poster Session, a case report on the migration of an Amplatzer Vascular Plug II, and images of a portal venous aneurysm.

To view this course please go to www.svu.org

Release Date: 3/1/2023
Expiration Date: 2/28/2026
Estimated time to complete activity: 30 minutes

Free to Members

$20.00 or $40.00 Non-members

1. State the various components of the IAC– QI self-assessment tool.
2. Describe the characteristics of juvenile temporal arteritis.
3. List the technical errors the vascular technologist revealed on the venous duplex exam.
4. Explain the factors that may result in an incomplete or non-optimized exam.
5. List the limitations of using CT angiography as the gold standard for external carotid artery stenosis.
6. Describe the technical limitations of visualizing the internal carotid artery with duplex ultrasound.
7. List the parameters used to categorize internal carotid stenosis with duplex ultrasound.
8. State the most common injection site for an agitated saline bubble study.
9. Explain the Muller maneuver.
10. Explain the importance of performing a Valsalva maneuver after injection of the agitated saline bubbles.
11. Describe the ultrasound characteristics of fibromuscular dysplasia.
12. State the clinical presentation of reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome.
13. Describe an Amplatzer Plug II.
14. Explain why the left arterial pulsed Doppler waveform remained multiphasic with a greater than seventy-five percent stenosis.
15. State the most common location for portal venous aneurysms.
16. Explain hepatopetal flow.
17. Compare the difference between an acquired and congenital portal venous aneurysm.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Cincinnati and the Society for Vascular Ultrasound. The University of Cincinnati is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Cincinnati designates this Enduring Material activity for a maximum of .5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™ per article.  Physicians should claim only the credits commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


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No faculty are available for this activity at this time.