Rebeca Alvarez, MD, MSPH

Acting Assistant Professor

Director, Breast & Gynecologic Pathology Fellowship

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology

University of Washington

Objectives:

1. Understand the definition and etiologies of Granulomatous mastitis.
2. Understand controversies regarding the diagnosis.
3. Understand the infectious work-up.

Speaker disclosures: 
Dr. Rebeca Alvarez has NOT had any financial relationships with any ineligible entities within the past 24 months.

Why Attend? 

Granulomatous mastitis (GM) is a rare inflammatory breast disease that primarily affects parous women of childbearing age and is particularly important as patients are often prescribed long courses of empiric antimicrobial therapy. Organism identification in GM is essential as current diagnostic methodologies often fail to identify the infectious etiology. Broad-range PCR is a powerful tool for the detection of bacterial, fungal and mycobacterial DNA in clinical specimens and is especially useful for the detection of fastidious microorganisms that are difficult to isolate with routine clinical microbiological methods. Recently, molecular diagnostic methods have been employed to aid in the detection of pathogens from patients with GM and demonstrated increased sensitivity and culture identified a surprising diversity of pathogens and suggested some cases of GM may be polymicrobial. Come to learn more about this rare inflammatory breast disease and what infectious cases may play a role.  

Meeting ID: 983 8715 9855

Passcode: PATHGR

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Planning Committee Disclosure:

The following members have not had any financial relationships with any ineligible entities in the past 24 months: Drs. Rebecca Alvarez, Eleanor Chen, Austin Green, Jose Mantilla, Isaac Miller, Elizabeth Parker, Maria Tretiakova, and Larry True.

The following members disclose financial relations with ineligible entities within the past 24 months: Dr Shreeram Akilesh GoldfinchBio, Inc. (sponsored research) and NanoString, Inc. (sponsored travel); and Dr. Haodong Xu PathomIQ (consultant).

All relevant financial relationships listed have been mitigated.

Grant Acknowledgment:  None

The University of Washington School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 

The University of Washington School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. (Each session is 1.0 credit)