Accreditation

0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
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Target Audience

Directed to gastroenterologists, infectious disease physicians, infectious disease and gastroenterology nurse practitioners, infection control nurses, physician assistants, and managed care organizations.

Description

The Hepatitis C Management Series includes interactive cases, corresponding to the Hepatitis C Management Monograph.

Throughout the interactive case, you may proceed to the next question once you answer each question correctly. In addition to allowing you to proceed, the correct answer also reveals the rationale for the answer.

Upon completing the CME activity, the evaluation and registration forms, you will have the opportunity to print a CME certificate. 

Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

1. Associate between chronic hepatitis C with superimposed non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and advanced hepatic fibrosis.
2. Discuss why obese patients with hepatitis C may have lower response rates to antiviral therapy.
3. Explain why the delivering weight-based dose of ribavirin may enhance virologic response in chronic hepatitis C.

Author

Zobair M. Younossi, MD

Faculty Disclosure

In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.

The following faculty has indicated that he does have a relationship which, in the context of his presentation, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Zobair M. Younassi, MD
     — Grant/Research Support: Amgen, Ortho Biotech, Roche, Schering-Plough
     — Consultant: Amgen, Ortho Biotech, Roche, Schering-Plough
     — Speakers' Bureau: Amgen, Ortho Biotech, Roche, Schering-Plough