Interactive Case Study - June 2010

A 75-year-old woman with history of seronegative rheumatoid arthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica

Alice A. Perlowski, MD ; Michael Jaff, DO

Author Profiles:

Dr. Perlowski is a Vascular Diagnostic and Interventions fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital. She completed her Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology training at UCLA Medical Center.

Michael R. Jaff is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Medical Director of the Vascular Center, Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory, and Vascular Ultrasound Core Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  He is a former President of the Society for Vascular Medicine, and was the first physician to receive the honorary “Masters” of the Society for Vascular Medicine.  He has published extensively in the field of vascular medicine and has interest in the role of endovascular therapy and medical therapy for patients with non-cardiac vascular disease.  He is a founder of the Vascular Interventional Advances annual symposium held in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is course co-director for the first Endovascular Board Review Course co-sponsored by VIVA and the SVM.