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OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to - (1) Recognize and appreciate the most common forms of infiltrative and other restrictive cardiomyopathies, (2) Review the different types of cardiac amyloidosis, and their distinct on diagnostic and therapeutic ramifications, (3) Review the current status on diagnostic criteria, imaging modalities and treatment options for cardiac sarcoidosis, (4) Explain the major cardiac and non-cardiac manifestations, diagnosis and available therapies for cardiac hemochromatosis, (5) Identify with Fabry cardiomyopathy as a prototype of metabolic “storage cardiomyopathies”,  (6) Value the need, and appreciate the challenges and opportunities for multi-disciplinary care of patients with those complex, systemic clinical conditions.

FACULTY DISCLOSURE:  Lazaros Nikolaidis, MD, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

PLANNER DISCLOSURE:  John D. Myers, MD and Tresa McNeal, MD, have no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

ACCREDITATION: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

DESIGNATION:  The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC:  Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

For information, please contact Denise Ralston at [email protected]