This is an EXCEL Continuing Education continuing medical education activity supported by an educational grant from Recordati Rare Disease.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This activity is intended for hospitalists, emergency room physicians, pediatricians, hematologists, geneticists, genetic counselors, dermatologists, internal medicine and primary care physicians, registered nurses and nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of this activity, participants should:

• Discuss clinical manifestations of Acute Hepatic Porphyrias (AHP)
• Recognize signs and symptoms of AHP in the hospital setting: abdominal, neuro, and other acute attacks
• How to better prepare your hospital for AHP

PROGRAM SUMMARY

Patients with certain inherited metabolic disorders often arrive in the emergency room / hospital setting with porphyria-like attacks. To improve an understanding of AHP (acute hepatic porphyria) and to better differentiate this disorder from others that mimic symptoms similar to AHP, a broad differential diagnosis of the main acute presentations of acute porphyrias (including severe abdominal pain, extensive neuropathy issues, disabling respiratory symptoms, tachycardia, vomiting, and more) will be reviewed using pediatric and adult patient cases, with recommended strategies for immediate treatment.

ACCREDITATION AND DESIGNATION STATEMENTS

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 enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.