• Heterogeneity of Baló’s concentric sclerosis: a study of eight cases with different therapeutic concepts 

      Tzanetakos D., Vakrakou A.G., Tzartos J.S., Velonakis G., Evangelopoulos M.E., Anagnostouli M., Koutsis G., Dardiotis E., Karavasilis E., Toulas P., Stefanis L., Kilidireas C. (2020)
      Background: Baló’s Concentric Sclerosis (BCS) is a rare heterogeneous demyelinating disease with a variety of phenotypes on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Existing literature lacks data especially on the therapeutic ...
    • Increasing incidence of melanoma in central Greece: A retrospective epidemiology study 

      Roussaki-Schulze, A. V.; Rammos, C.; Rallis, E.; Terzis, A.; Archontonis, N.; Sarmanta, A.; Klimi, E.; Zafiriou, E. (2005)
      The increasing incidence of melanoma in the general population during the last few decades has provoked a great deal of research, aiming to identify the possible relationship between old and new etiological factors involved ...
    • Indicators to assess physiological heat strain–Part 1: Systematic review 

      Ioannou L.G., Mantzios K., Tsoutsoubi L., Notley S.R., Dinas P.C., Brearley M., Epstein Y., Havenith G., Sawka M.N., Bröde P., Mekjavic I.B., Kenny G.P., Bernard T.E., Nybo L., Flouris A.D. (2022)
      In a series of three companion papers published in this Journal, we identify and validate the available thermal stress indicators (TSIs). In this first paper of the series, we conducted a systematic review (registration: ...
    • Integrated care for optimizing the management of stroke and associated heart disease: a position paper of the European Society of Cardiology Council on Stroke 

      Lip G.Y.H., Lane D.A., Lenarczyk R., Boriani G., Doehner W., Benjamin L.A., Fisher M., Lowe D., Sacco R.L., Schnabel R., Watkins C., Ntaios G., Potpara T. (2022)
      The management of patients with stroke is often multidisciplinary, involving various specialties and healthcare professionals. Given the common shared risk factors for stroke and cardiovascular disease, input may also be ...
    • An Integrated Platform for Skin Cancer Heterogenous and Multilayered Data Management 

      Maglogiannis I., Kontogianni G., Papadodima O., Karanikas H., Billiris A., Chatziioannou A. (2021)
      Electronic health record (EHR) systems improve health care services by allowing the combination of health data with clinical decision support features and clinical image analyses. This study presents a modular and distributed ...
    • Investigating perceptions and beliefs of roma about healthcare services in a provincial general hospital 

      Kotrotsiou S., Zachari I., Malliarou M., Barbouta C., Barbouta A., Paralikas T., Gouva M. (2019)
      Introduction: According to estimates, about 7 to 9 million Roma live in Europe, nowadays, out of whom two thirds are living in Central and Eastern Europe. Available studies in various countries show that Roma are experiencing ...
    • Mitral and tricuspid annuloplasty ring dehiscence: A systematic review with pooled analysis 

      Arjomandi Rad A., Naruka V., Vardanyan R., Viviano A., Salmasi M.Y., Magouliotis D., Kendall S., Casula R., Athanasiou T. (2021)
      OBJECTIVES: Mitral and tricuspid ring annuloplasty dehiscence with consequent recurrent valve regurgitation is a rare but challenging procedural failure. The incidence and predisposing risk factors for annuloplasty ring ...
    • Moving to a double-blind review system 

      Fosgate G.T., Doherr M.G., Kostoulas P. (2022)
      [No abstract available]
    • Occult hepatitis B virus infection in Greek patients with chronic hepatitis C and in patients with diverse nonviral hepatic diseases 

      Georgiadou, S. P.; Zachou, K.; Rigopoulou, E.; Liaskos, C.; Mina, P.; Gerovasilis, F.; Makri, E.; Dalekos, G. N. (2004)
      Occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection has been reported in patients with chronic hepatitis C who are negative for HBV surface antigen (HBsAg). However, the significance of 'silent' HBV in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection ...
    • Procedural recommendations of cardiac PET/CT imaging: standardization in inflammatory-, infective-, infiltrative-, and innervation (4Is)-related cardiovascular diseases: a joint collaboration of the EACVI and the EANM 

      Slart R.H.J.A., Glaudemans A.W.J.M., Gheysens O., Lubberink M., Kero T., Dweck M.R., Habib G., Gaemperli O., Saraste A., Gimelli A., Georgoulias P., Verberne H.J., Bucerius J., Rischpler C., Hyafil F., Erba P.A., 4Is Cardiovascular Imaging: a joint initiative of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) (2021)
      With this document, we provide a standard for PET/(diagnostic) CT imaging procedures in cardiovascular diseases that are inflammatory, infective, infiltrative, or associated with dysfunctional innervation (4Is). This ...
    • RNAcentral: A comprehensive database of non-coding RNA sequences 

      Petrov A.I., Kay S.J.E., Kalvari I., Howe K.L., Gray K.A., Bruford E.A., Kersey P.J., Cochrane G., Finn R.D., Bateman A., Kozomara A., Griffiths-Jones S., Frankish A., Zwieb C.W., Lau B.Y., Williams K.P., Chan P.P., Lowe T.M., Cannone J.J., Gutell R.R., Machnicka M.A., Bujnicki J.M., Yoshihama M., Kenmochi N., Chai B., Cole J.R., Szymanski M., Karlowski W.M., Wood V., Huala E., Berardini T.Z., Zhao Y., Chen R., Zhu W., Paraskevopoulou M.D., Vlachos I.S., Hatzigeorgiou A.G., Ma L., Zhang Z., Puetz J., Stadler P.F., McDonald D., Basu S., Fey P., Engel S.R., Cherry J.M., Volders P.-J., Mestdagh P., Wower J., Clark M., Quek X.C., Dinger M.E., The RNAcentral Consortium (2017)
      RNAcentral is a database of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) sequences that aggregates data from specialised ncRNA resources and provides a single entry point for accessing ncRNA sequences of all ncRNA types from all organisms. Since ...
    • Scientometrics approach to research in ovine mastitis from 1970 to 2019 (With a complete list of relevant literature references) 

      Lianou D.T., Fthenakis G.C. (2020)
      The present study is a scientometrics evaluation of refereed publications on bacterial mastitis in sheep; the objectives were the evaluation of the relevant papers and the presentation of quantitative characteristics ...
    • A survey of safety and health at work in Greece 

      Drakopoulos, S.; Economou, A.; Grimani, K. (2012)
      Purpose - The subject of occupational safety and health (OSH) is increasingly gaining the interest of policy makers and researchers in European countries given that the economic and social losses from work-related injuries ...
    • Th1/Th2 cytokine pattern in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and induced sputum in pulmonary sarcoidosis 

      Tsiligianni, I.; Antoniou, K. M.; Kyriakou, D.; Tzanakis, N.; Chrysofakis, G.; Siafakas, N. M.; Bouros, D. (2005)
      Background: Sarcoidosis is thought to be a T-helper type 1 cytokine (Th2 cytokine) mediated disorder. Induced sputum (IS) has been proposed as a useful non-invasive method, mainly for the assessment of the airway diseases. ...
    • Unravelling data for rapid evidence-based response to COVID-19: A summary of the unCoVer protocol 

      Peñalvo J.L., Mertens E., Ademović E., Akgun S., Baltazar A.L., Buonfrate D., Ĝ Oklo M., Devleesschauwer B., DIaz Valencia P.A., Fernandes J.C., Gómez E.J., Hynds P., Kabir Z., Klein J., Kostoulas P., Llanos Jiménez L., Lotrean L.M., Majdan M., Menasalvas E., Nguewa P., Oh I.-H., O'Sullivan G., Pereira D.M., Reina Ortiz M., Riva S., Soriano G., Soriano J.B., Spilki F., Tamang M.E., Trofor A.C., Vaillant M., Van Ierssel S., Vuković J., Castellano J.M. (2021)
      Introduction unCoVer - Unravelling data for rapid evidence-based response to COVID-19 - is a Horizon 2020-funded network of 29 partners from 18 countries capable of collecting and using real-world data (RWD) derived from ...
    • Verbal working memory and reading abilities among students with visual impairment 

      Argyropoulos V., Masoura E., Tsiakali T.K., Nikolaraizi M., Lappa C. (2017)
      Aim This study investigated the relationship between working memory (WM) and reading abilities among students with visual impairment (VI). Seventy-five students with VI (visually impairment and blindness), aged 10–15 years ...