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“Blame it on the Comorbidities”: A 5-Year Follow-Up of 53 Chronic Dialysis-Dependent Patients Who Underwent Cardiac Surgery
Deutsch, O.; Rippinger, N.; Spiliopoulos, K.; Eichinger, W.; Gansera, B. (2014)Objectives This study evaluates midterm survival rates and risk factors for mortality of chronic dialysis-dependent patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Methods Fifty-three dialysis-dependent patients (34 males, aged 67 ± ... -
Cardiac Surgery in Dialysis-Dependent Patients: Impact of Gender on Early Outcome in Single-Center Experience with 204 Consecutive Cases
Deutsch, O.; Spiliopoulos, K.; Kiask, T.; Katsari, E.; Rippinger, N.; Eichinger, W.; Gansera, B. (2013)Background This study evaluates the impact of gender in dialysis-dependent patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Methods We retrospectively identified 204 dialysis-dependent patients (68.6% male, aged 66.6 +/- 9.9 years) ... -
Chronic stress and coping among cardiac surgeons: A single center study
Spiliopoulos, K.; Gansera, L.; Weiland, H. C.; Schuster, T.; Eichinger, W.; Gansera, B. (2014)Results: Participants mean age was 40±14.1 years and 13 were male; eight were senior physicians and 14 were residents. Mean values for the Trier Inventory for Chronic Stress were within the normal range. Unexperienced ... -
Comments on "Impact of type of procedure and surgeon on EuroSCORE operative risk validation"
Spiliopoulos, K.; Deutsch, O.; Eichinger, W.; Gansera, B. (2014) -
Current status of mechanical circulatory support: A systematic review
Spiliopoulos, K.; Giamouzis, G.; Karayannis, G.; Karangelis, D.; Koutsias, S.; Kalogeropoulos, A.; Georgiopoulou, V.; Skoularigis, J.; Butler, J.; Triposkiadis, F. (2012)Heart failure is a major public health problem and its management requires a significant amount of health care resources. Even with administration of the best available medical treatment, the mortality associated with the ... -
An insight into short- and long-term mechanical circulatory support systems
Ferrari, M.; Kruzliak, P.; Spiliopoulos, K. (2015)Cardiogenic shock due to acute myocardial infarction, postcardiotomy syndrome following cardiac surgery, or manifestation of heart failure remains a clinical challenge with high mortality rates, despite ongoing advances ... -
Performance of EuroSCORE II compared to EuroSCORE I in predicting operative and mid-term mortality of patients from a single center after combined coronary artery bypass grafting and aortic valve replacement
Spiliopoulos, K.; Bagiatis, V.; Deutsch, O.; Kemkes, B. M.; Antonopoulos, N.; Karangelis, D.; Haschemi, A.; Gansera, B. (2014)Objective: The performance comparison of the recently introduced European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II in predicting operative as well as mid-term mortality, with its previous version in patients after ... -
The route of a bullet through the chest and its minimal effect: A report of a "lucky" case sustained gunshot-induced penetrating thoracic injury and review of the literature
Spiliopoulos, K.; Chnaris, A.; Tsantsaridou, A.; Tsilimingas, N. B. (2012)Thoracic trauma due to blunt or penetrating injury is a major cause of hospitalization worldwide, associated with high mortality rates ranging from 15 to 77%. The majority of thoracic injuries requiring surgical intervention ... -
Scalp Metastasis as the First Sign of Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Management and Literature Review
Salemis, N. S.; Veloudis, G.; Spiliopoulos, K.; Nakos, G.; Vrizidis, N.; Gourgiotis, S. (2014)Cutaneous metastasis from primary visceral malignancy is a relatively uncommon clinical entity, with a reported incidence ranging from 0.22% to 10% among various series. However, the presence of cutaneous metastasis as the ... -
Surgical Management of Infective Endocarditis: Early and Long-Term Mortality Analysis. Single-Center Experience and Brief Literature Review
Spiliopoulos, K.; Giamouzis, G.; Haschemi, A.; Karangelis, D.; Antonopoulos, N.; Fink, G.; Kemkes, B. M.; Gansera, B. (2014)Introduction: In this study we evaluated factors that affect the early and long-term postoperative outcomes of patients with infective endocarditis. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 94 patients (68 male, 26 female, ... -
Synchronous occurrence of breast cancer and pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma: Management and review of the literature
Salemis, N. S.; Seretis, C.; Nakos, G.; Kantounakis, I.; Stoumpos, C.; Spiliopoulos, K. (2013)Pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma (PSH) is a rare tumor accounting for 0.2-1% of all primary lung tumors. Simultaneous occurrence of PSH with breast cancer has very rarely been reported in the literature. We describe here a ...