Target Audience

Directed to primary care physicians including family practitioners and internists.

Description

Each lesson within the Disease Management Clinical Decisions series includes a related chapter from The Cleveland Clinic Disease Management Project, an interactive case, and an evaluation.

Throughout the interactive case-based lesson, 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 an opportunity to print your CME certificate for your records.

Objectives

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

1. Describe the presenting complaints of patients with polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and/or giant cell arteritis (GCA).
2. Distinguish the features that should lead to temporal artery biopsy.
3. List the treatment options for PMR and GCA
4. Recognize the short-term and long-term complications of PMR and GCA.
5. Recognize that osteoporosis will be a major issue to be addressed as soon as the diagnosis is made and treatment initiated.

Activity Director

William D. Carey, MD
Director, Center for Continuing Education
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio

Author / Faculty

George W. Meyer, 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 have indicated they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

William D. Carey, MD
George W. Meyer, MD