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. Emphasize the established link between hepatitis C cirrhosis and development of hepatocellular carcinoma.
2. Discuss options, shortcomings and current recommendations for hepatocellular carcinoma screening in the setting of HCV cirrhosis.
   
3. Review diagnostic and therapeutic modalities for hepatocellular carcinoma in the patients with HCV cirrhosis.

Author

Nizar Zein, 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:

Nizar Zein, MD
     — Grant/Research Support: Intermune & Roche Laboratories