The left renal vein courses:

The overall ability of a test to identify disease as well as to exclude it.  It indicates how confident you are that the noninvasive study is correct.  It is calculated by dividing the number of true positive and true negative noninvasive studies by the total number of noninvasive studies whether  the studies were correct or incorrect.

Occlusion of the hepatic veins is termed

Because of the location of the inferior vena cava, the left renal vein:

Which describes a communication between an artery and a vein?

A typical Pre AV Fistula protocol would include which test?

The left gastric artery is most often visualized in real-time 

What is the typical place for a Dialysis shunt or fistula to be placed?    

A patient who is on corticosteroid therapy for treatment of an autoimmune disorder has the following additional drugs ordered. Which one is used to prevent corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis? 

The nurse will plan to monitor a patient diagnosed with a pheochromocytoma for