CNS Vasculitis

Estimated Time of Completion

30 minutes

Accreditation

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of  0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.

Target Audience

This activity will be directed to rheumatologists, neurologists and other specialists managing patients with rheumatic and other autoimmune and inflammatory diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system who are being treated with immunosuppressive and/or biologic therapies.

Description

The Cleveland Clinic has developed this webcast series entitled Neuroinflammatory Aspects in Rheumatology which discusses the CNS and PNS aspects of rheumatic diseases. This series covers four topics NP-SLE, Vasculitis of the CNS, Vasculitis of the PNS and Infectious complications of the CNS in immunosuppressed patients.

Objectives

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

1. Describe the preliminary diagnostic criteria for identifying vasculitis of the CNS.
2. Compare the accuracy and use of available diagnostic tests for differential diagnosis of primary angiitis of the CNS.
3. Identify the different subsets of primary angiitis of the CNS and review the analytic testing results needed for their differential diagnosis.
4. Discuss how the reversible cerebral vasoconstrictive syndromes differ from primary angiitis of the CNS.

Activity Director/ Faculty

Leonard H. Calabrese, DO
Professor of Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Vice Chairman
Department of Rheumatic & Immunologic Diseases
R.J. Fasenmyer Chair of Clinical Immunology
Cleveland, OH

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 member has indicated that he may have a relationship which, in the context of his presentation, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest: