Curious Clinicians - “On sinusoids and SAAGs” (2025-2026) is organized by VCU Health Continuing Education.
Date:
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 12:30 PM - Thursday, December 31, 2026, 11:59 PM
Description:
Why does cirrhosis cause high SAAG ascites?
Other than when there’s Thai food at noon conference, it’s the best part of the day on inpatient medicine. A patient comes in with ascites, they get a diagnostic paracentesis, you look at the fluid albumin and subtract it from that serum albumin that you pray you remembered to order before the tap. This is the serum ascites-albumin gap (SAAG). You google that chart that you’ve somehow never remembered to bookmark, and, unlike most other lab values in medicine, it gives you a clear answer: If the SAAG is = 1.1 g/dL, the ascites is due to portal hypertension, and your differential has just been narrowed to cirrhosis … and then cirrhosis … and then cirrhosis … and then finally some other causes like heart failure and various types of thrombosis.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:
Accreditation:
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Curious Clinicians and VCU Health Continuing Education. VCU Health Continuing Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
VCU Health Continuing Education designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.50 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.
It is the responsibility of the participant to provide the correct information [ABIM ID Number and DOB (in MMDD format)] in order to receive MOC credit for participating in a CE activity.
Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.50 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (0.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (0.50 hours)
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