Headache in Patients with Rheumatic Disease: When to Worry

Accreditation

0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

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 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity may be submitted for American Osteopathic Association Continuing Medical Education credit in Category 2.

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. Review the frequency of headache disorders in patients with rheumatic diseases.
2. Discuss the unique headache disorders seen in giant cell arteritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes, and Behcet’s disease.
3. Evaluate a patient who has an underlying rheumatic disease and a headache.

Activity Director

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

Faculty

Glen D. Solomon, 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 that they may have a relationship, which in the context of their presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

The following faculty has indicated he has no relationship which, in the context of his presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest: