In this live accredited symposium, acute hepatic porphyrias (AHP), characterized by potentially life-threatening attacks as well as chronic symptoms, will be discussed including treatment strategies and consensus recommendations using real patient cases seen in clinical practice.
Patients with some inherited metabolic disorders often present with porphyria-like attacks. To improve an understanding of AHP and to better differentiate from other disorders that mimic symptoms associated with AHP, a broad differential diagnosis of the main acute presentations of acute porphyrias (including abdominal pain, neuropathy, psychosis) will be reviewed, including other diseases with similar signs such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis. Disorders that do have real porphyria-like attacks as a manifestation (i.e., tyrosinemia, lead poisoning) will be addressed, with recommended strategies to personalize patient treatment.
This educational Satellite Symposium is not a part of the official ACMG Annual Meeting program. ACMG does not approve nor endorse any commercial products or services discussed during the session or offered for sale by the grant supporter of the activity.
Schedule |
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| * Times are EST | |
| 07:50 AM | Breakfast Buffet |
| 08:00 AM | Welcome, Disclosures, Supporter Acknowledgement |
| 08:05 AM | Brief Overview of Acute Hepatic Porphyrias |
| 08:20 AM | Diagnosis, Misdiagnosis, and Clinical Manifestations |
| 08:35 AM | Hereditary Tyrosinemia Type 1 and other Porphyria-like Diseases |
| 08:55 AM | Discussion of Patient Cases including Evidence-based Treatment Recommendations |
| 09:10 AM | Audience Q&A |
| 09:30 AM | Adjourn / Evaluation form online |
Amy Dickey, MD, MSC
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Porphyria Center
Instructor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Angelika Erwin, MD, PhD
Clinical Geneticist
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western University
Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA
EXCEL Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
EXCEL Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Genetic Counselors CEUs: Can claim Category 2 credit directly from the NSGC for this activity.
Canadian CME: Through an agreement between the ACCME and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, medical practitioners participating in the Royal College MOC Program may record completion of accredited activities registered under the ACCME’s “CME in Support of MOC” program in Section 3 of the Royal College’s MOC Program.
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- Discuss disease pathophysiology of clinical manifestations of AHP to distinguish from other porphyria-like diseases such as hereditary tyrosinemia type 1.
- Review patient cases whose symptoms include abdominal, neuro, and other acute attacks
- Implement long-term strategies to manage and minimize disease burden in patients with AHP