• An 11- to 15-year clinical outcome study of the Advance Medial Pivot total knee arthroplasty: Pivot knee arthroplasty 

      Karachalios Th., Varitimidis S., Bargiotas K., Hantes M., Roidis N., Malizos K.N. (2016)
      Aims The Advance Medial-Pivot total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was designed to reflect contemporary data regarding the kinematics of the knee. We wished to examine the longterm results obtained with this prosthesis by extending ...
    • A 13- to 16-year clinical and radiological outcome study of the genesis II cruciate retaining total knee arthroplasty with an oxidised zirconium femoral component 

      Papasoulis E., Karachalios T. (2019)
      Purpose: The Genesis II Total Knee Arthroplasty with an oxidized zirconium (OxiniumTM) femoral component (Smith & Nephew, Memphis, TN, USA) was introduced in an attempt to reduce polyethylene wear and osteolysis. Methods: ...
    • (2-Heremans-schmid glycoprotein (fetuin A) downregulation and its utility in inflammatory bowel disease 

      Manolakis A.C., Christodoulidis G., Kapsoritakis A.N., Georgoulias P., Tiaka E.K., Oikonomou K., Valotassiou V.J., Potamianos S.P. (2017)
      AIM: To investigate the impact of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) on α2-Heremans-Schmid Glycoprotein (AHSG/fetuin A) and potential associations with disease and patient characteristics. METHODS: AHSG serum levels were ...
    • 20-year trends of characteristics and outcomes of stroke patients with atrial fibrillation 

      Ntaios G., Sagris D., Gioulekas F., Galanis P., Pardali C., Vemmou A., Koroboki E., Papavasileiou V., Vassilopoulou S., Manios E., Makaritsis K., Spengos K., Mitsikostas D.-D., Milionis H., Vemmos K. (2018)
      Background: The accurate knowledge of secular trends in prevalence, characteristics and outcomes of patients with ischemic stroke and atrial fibrillation allows better projections into the future. Aim: We aimed to report ...
    • Age- A nd sex-specific analysis of patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source 

      Ntaios G., Lip G.Y.H., Vemmos K., Koroboki E., Manios E., Vemmou A., Rodríguez-Campello A., Cuadrado-Godia E., Roquer J., Arnao V., Caso V., Paciaroni M., DIez-Tejedor E., Fuentes B., Pérez Lucas J., Arauz A., Ameriso S.F., Pertierra L., Gómez-Schneider M., Hawkes M.A., Bandini F., Chavarria Cano B., Iglesias Mohedano A.M., Garciá Pastor A., Gil-Núñez A., Putaala J., Tatlisumak T., Barboza M.A., Athanasakis G., Gioulekas F., Makaritsis K., Papavasileiou V. (2017)
      Objective: To investigate whether the correlation of age and sex with the risk of recurrence and death seen in patients with previous ischemic stroke is also evident in patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source ...
    • The antiphospholipid syndrome and infection 

      Dalekos, G. N.; Zachou, K.; Liaskos, C. (2001)
      Infectious agents have been implicated in the induction of antiphospholipid (aPL) antibodies and the development of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). This review focuses on the types of aPL antibodies detected in ...
    • Autoantibodies in patients with systemic sclerosis and cancer: A case-control study 

      Derk, C. T.; Sakkas, L. I.; Rasheed, M.; Artlett, C.; Jimenez, S. A. (2003)
      Objective. To determine the prevalence of specific autoantibodies in a cohort of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and a diagnosis of cancer, and to compare it to that in a group of patients with SSc who were never ...
    • Beneficial Effect of Multidomain Cognitive Training on the Neuropsychological Performance of Patients with Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease 

      Nousia A., Siokas V., Aretouli E., Messinis L., Aloizou A.-M., Martzoukou M., Karala M., Koumpoulis C., Nasios G., Dardiotis E. (2018)
      Background and Purpose. There is an increasing interest in the effect of nonpharmacological interventions on the course of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The objective of the present study is to determine the ...
    • “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. (2016)
      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 ± ...
    • Clinical features and outcomes of patients with tubercular uveitis treated with antitubercular therapy in the collaborative ocular tuberculosis study (COTS)-1 

      Agrawal R., Gunasekeran D.V., Grant R., Agarwal A., Kon O.M., Nguyen Q.D., Pavesio C., Gupta V., Gupta B., Aggarwal K., Murthy S.L., Westcott M., Phaik C.S., McCluskey P., Ling H.S., Teoh S., Cimino L., Biswas J., Narain S., Agarwal M., Mahendradas P., Khairallah M., Jones N., Tugal-Tutkun I., Babu K., Basu S., Carreño E., Lee R., Al-Dhibi H., Bodaghi B., Invernizzi A., Goldstein D.A., Herbort C.P., Barisani T., González-López J.J., Androudi S., Bansal R., Moharana B., Mahajan S., Esposti S., Tasiopoulou A., Nadarajah S., Agarwal M., Abraham S., Vala R., Singh R., Sharma A., Sharma K., Zierhut M., Raje D., Cunningham E., Kempen J., Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS)-1 Study Group (2017)
      IMPORTANCE Eradication of systemic tuberculosis (TB) has been limited by neglected populations and the HIV pandemic. Whereas ocular TB often presents as uveitis without any prior evidence of systemic TB, the existing ...
    • Clinical significance of organ- and non-organ-specific autoantibodies on the response to anti-viral treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis C 

      Gatselis, N. K.; Georgiadou, S. P.; Koukoulis, G. K.; Tassopoulos, N.; Zachou, K.; Liaskos, C.; Hatzakis, A.; Dalekos, G. N. (2006)
      Background: Development of organ- and non-organ-specific autoantibodies has been reported in hepatitis C virus patients treated with interferon-α plus/minus ribavirin. Aims: To address whether prevalence and the titre of ...
    • The Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study (COTS)-1 Report 3: Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Diagnosis and Management of Tubercular Uveitis: Global Trends 

      Agarwal A., Agrawal R., Gunasekaran D.V., Raje D., Gupta B., Aggarwal K., Murthy S.L., Westcott M., Chee S.P., McCluskey P., Ling H.S., Teoh S., Cimino L., Biswas J., Narain S., Agarwal M., Mahendradas P., Khairallah M., Jones N., Tugal-Tutkun I., Babu K., Basu S., Carreño E., Lee R., Al-Dhibi H., Bodaghi B., Invernizzi A., Goldstein D.A., Herbort C.P., Barisani-Asenbauer T., González-López J.J., Androudi S., Bansal R., Moharana B., Mahajan S., Esposti S., Tasiopoulou A., Nadarajah S., Agarwal M., Abraham S., Vala R., Singh R., Sharma A., Sharma K., Zierhut M., Kon O.M., Cunningham E., Nguyen Q.D., Pavesio C., Gupta V. (2019)
      Purpose: To analyze the role of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of ocular fluids in management of tubercular (TB) anterior, intermediate, posterior, and panuveitis. Methods: In Collaborative Ocular Tuberculosis Study ...
    • Common variants in Alzheimer’s disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores 

      de Rojas I., Moreno-Grau S., Tesi N., Grenier-Boley B., Andrade V., Jansen I.E., Pedersen N.L., Stringa N., Zettergren A., Hernández I., Montrreal L., Antúnez C., Antonell A., Tankard R.M., Bis J.C., Sims R., Bellenguez C., Quintela I., González-Perez A., Calero M., Franco-Macías E., Macías J., Blesa R., Cervera-Carles L., Menéndez-González M., Frank-García A., Royo J.L., Moreno F., Huerto Vilas R., Baquero M., Diez-Fairen M., Lage C., García-Madrona S., García-González P., Alarcón-Martín E., Valero S., Sotolongo-Grau O., Ullgren A., Naj A.C., Lemstra A.W., Benaque A., Pérez-Cordón A., Benussi A., Rábano A., Padovani A., Squassina A., de Mendonça A., Arias Pastor A., Kok A.A.L., Meggy A., Pastor A.B., Espinosa A., Corma-Gómez A., Martín Montes A., Sanabria Á., DeStefano A.L., Schneider A., Haapasalo A., Kinhult Ståhlbom A., Tybjærg-Hansen A., Hartmann A.M., Spottke A., Corbatón-Anchuelo A., Rongve A., Borroni B., Arosio B., Nacmias B., Nordestgaard B.G., Kunkle B.W., Charbonnier C., Abdelnour C., Masullo C., Martínez Rodríguez C., Muñoz-Fernandez C., Dufouil C., Graff C., Ferreira C.B., Chillotti C., Reynolds C.A., Fenoglio C., Van Broeckhoven C., Clark C., Pisanu C., Satizabal C.L., Holmes C., Buiza-Rueda D., Aarsland D., Rujescu D., Alcolea D., Galimberti D., Wallon D., Seripa D., Grünblatt E., Dardiotis E., Düzel E., Scarpini E., Conti E., Rubino E., Gelpi E., Rodriguez-Rodriguez E., Duron E., Boerwinkle E., Ferri E., Tagliavini F., Küçükali F., Pasquier F., Sanchez-Garcia F., Mangialasche F., Jessen F., Nicolas G., Selbæk G., Ortega G., Chêne G., Hadjigeorgiou G., Rossi G., Spalletta G., Giaccone G., Grande G., Binetti G., Papenberg G., Hampel H., Bailly H., Zetterberg H., Soininen H., Karlsson I.K., Alvarez I., Appollonio I., Giegling I., Skoog I., Saltvedt I., Rainero I., Rosas Allende I., Hort J., Diehl-Schmid J., Van Dongen J., Vidal J.-S., Lehtisalo J., Wiltfang J., Thomassen J.Q., Kornhuber J., Haines J.L., Vogelgsang J., Pineda J.A., Fortea J., Popp J., Deckert J., Buerger K., Morgan K., Fließbach K., Sleegers K., Molina-Porcel L., Kilander L., Weinhold L., Farrer L.A., Wang L.-S., Kleineidam L., Farotti L., Parnetti L., Tremolizzo L., Hausner L., Benussi L., Froelich L., Ikram M.A., Deniz-Naranjo M.C., Tsolaki M., Rosende-Roca M., Löwenmark M., Hulsman M., Spallazzi M., Pericak-Vance M.A., Esiri M., Bernal Sánchez-Arjona M., Dalmasso M.C., Martínez-Larrad M.T., Arcaro M., Nöthen M.M., Fernández-Fuertes M., Dichgans M., Ingelsson M., Herrmann M.J., Scherer M., Vyhnalek M., Kosmidis M.H., Yannakoulia M., Schmid M., Ewers M., Heneka M.T., Wagner M., Scamosci M., Kivipelto M., Hiltunen M., Zulaica M., Alegret M., Fornage M., Roberto N., van Schoor N.M., Seidu N.M., Banaj N., Armstrong N.J., Scarmeas N., Scherbaum N., Goldhardt O., Hanon O., Peters O., Skrobot O.A., Quenez O., Lerch O., Bossù P., Caffarra P., Dionigi Rossi P., Sakka P., Hoffmann P., Holmans P.A., Fischer P., Riederer P., Yang Q., Marshall R., Kalaria R.N., Mayeux R., Vandenberghe R., Cecchetti R., Ghidoni R., Frikke-Schmidt R., Sorbi S., Hägg S., Engelborghs S., Helisalmi S., Botne Sando S., Kern S., Archetti S., Boschi S., Fostinelli S., Gil S., Mendoza S., Mead S., Ciccone S., Djurovic S., Heilmann-Heimbach S., Riedel-Heller S., Kuulasmaa T., del Ser T., Lebouvier T., Polak T., Ngandu T., Grimmer T., Bessi V., Escott-Price V., Giedraitis V., Deramecourt V., Maier W., Jian X., Pijnenburg Y.A.L., Smith A.D., Saenz A., Bizzarro A., Lauria A., Vacca A., Solomon A., Anastasiou A., Richardson A., Boland A., Koivisto A., Daniele A., Greco A., Marianthi A., McGuinness B., Fin B., Ferrari C., Custodero C., Ferrarese C., Ingino C., Mangone C., Reyes Toso C., Martínez C., Cuesta C., Muchnik C., Joachim C., Ortiz C., Besse C., Johansson C., Zoia C.P., Laske C., Anastasiou C., Palacio D.L., Politis D.G., Janowitz D., Craig D., Mann D.M., Neary D., Jürgen D., Daian D., Belezhanska D., Kohler E., Castaño E.M., Koutsouraki E., Chipi E., De Roeck E., Costantini E., Vardy E.R.L.C., Piras F., Roveta F., Piras F., Prestia F.A., Assogna F., Salani F., Sala G., Lacidogna G., Novack G., Wilcock G., Thonberg H., Kölsch H., Weber H., Boecker H., Etchepareborda I., Piaceri I., Tuomilehto J., Lindström J., Laczo J., Johnston J., Deleuze J.-F., Harris J., Schott J.M., Priller J., Bacha J.I., Snowden J., Lisso J., Mihova K.Y., Traykov L., Morelli L., Brusco L.I., Rainer M., Takalo M., Bjerke M., Del Zompo M., Serpente M., Sanchez Abalos M., Rios M., Peltonen M., Herrman M.J., Kosmidis M.H., Kohler M., Rojo M., Jones M., Orsini M., Medel N., Olivar N., Fox N.C., Salvadori N., Hooper N.M., Galeano P., Solis P., Bastiani P., Mecocci P., Passmore P., Heun R., Antikainen R., Olaso R., Perneczky R., Germani S., López-García S., Love S., Mehrabian S., Bagnoli S., Kochen S., Andreoni S., Teipel S., Todd S., Pickering-Brown S., Natunen T., Tegos T., Laatikainen T., Strandberg T., Polvikoski T.M., Matoska V., Ciullo V., Cores V., Solfrizzi V., Lisetti V., Sevillano Z., Abdelnour C., Aguilera N., Alarcon E., Alegret M., Benaque A., Boada M., Buendia M., Cañabate P., Carracedo A., Corbatón-Anchuelo A., Diego S., Espinosa A., Gailhajenet A., Gil S., Guitart M., Hernández I., Ibarria M., Lafuente A., Macias J., Maroñas O., Martín E., Martínez M.T., Marquié M., Mauleón A., Montrreal L., Moreno-Grau S., Moreno M., Orellana A., Ortega G., Pancho A., Pelejá E., Pérez-Cordon A., Preckler S., Quintela I., Real L.M., Rosende-Roca M., Ruiz A., Sáez M.E., Sanabria A., Serrano-Rios M., Sotolongo-Grau O., Tárraga L., Valero S., Vargas L., Adarmes-Gómez A.D., Alarcón-Martín E., Alonso M.D., Álvarez I., Álvarez V., Amer-Ferrer G., Antequera M., Antúnez C., Baquero M., Bernal M., Blesa R., Boada M., Buiza-Rueda D., Bullido M.J., Burguera J.A., Calero M., Carrillo F., Carrión-Claro M., Casajeros M.J., Clarimón J., Cruz-Gamero J.M., de Pancorbo M.M., del Ser T., Diez-Fairen M., Escuela R., Garrote-Espina L., Fortea J., Franco-Macías E., Frank-García A., García-Alberca J.M., Garcia Madrona S., Garcia-Ribas G., Gómez-Garre P., Hernández I., Hevilla S., Jesús S., Labrador Espinosa M.A., Lage C., Legaz A., Lleó A., Lopez de Munain A., López-García S., Macias-García D., Manzanares S., Marín M., Marín-Muñoz J., Marín T., Marquié M., Martín Montes A., Martínez B., Martínez C., Martínez V., Martínez-Lage Álvarez P., Medina M., Mendioroz Iriarte M., Mir P., Molinuevo J.L., Pastor P., Pérez-Tur J., Periñán-Tocino T., Pineda-Sanchez R., Piñol-Ripoll G., Rábano A., Real de Asúa D., Rodrigo S., Rodríguez-Rodríguez E., Royo J.L., Ruiz A., Sanchez del Valle Díaz R., Sánchez-Juan P., Sastre I., Valero S., Vicente M.P., Vigo-Ortega R., Vivancos L., Macleod C., McCracken C., Brayne C., Bresner C., Grozeva D., Bellou E., Sommerville E.W., Matthews F., Leonenko G., Menzies G., Windle G., Harwood J., Phillips J., Bennett K., Luckuck L., Clare L., Woods R., Saad S., Burholt V., Jansen I.E., Rongve A., Kehoe P.G., Garcia-Ribas G., Sánchez-Juan P., Pastor P., Lopez de Munain A., García-Alberca J.M., Bullido M.J., Álvarez V., Real L.M., Scheltens P., Holstege H., Marquié M., Sáez M.E., Amouyel P., Schellenberg G.D., Williams J., Seshadri S., van Duijn C.M., Mather K.A., Sánchez-Valle R., Serrano-Ríos M., Orellana A., Tárraga L., Blennow K., Huisman M., Andreassen O.A., Posthuma D., Clarimón J., Boada M., van der Flier W.M., Ramirez A., Lambert J.-C., van der Lee S.J., Ruiz A., EADB contributors, The GR@ACE study group, DEGESCO consortium, IGAP (ADGC, CHARGE, EADI, GERAD), PGC-ALZ consortia (2021)
      Genetic discoveries of Alzheimer’s disease are the drivers of our understanding, and together with polygenetic risk stratification can contribute towards planning of feasible and efficient preventive and curative clinical ...
    • Complex distal 10q rearrangement in a girl with mild intellectual disability: Follow up of the patient and review of the literature of non-acrocentric satellited chromosomes 

      Sarri, C.; Douzgou, S.; Gyftodimou, Y.; Tümer, Z.; Ravn, K.; Pasparaki, A.; Sarafidou, T.; Kontos, H.; Kokotas, H.; Karadima, G.; Grigoriadou, M.; Pandelia, E.; Theodorou, V.; Moschonas, N. K.; Petersen, M. B. (2011)
      We report on an intellectually disabled girl with a de novo satellited chromosome 10 (10qs) and performed a review of the literature of the non-acrocentric satellited chromosomes (NASC). Satellites and stalks normally occur ...
    • Daring-B: Discontinuation of effective entecavir or tenofovir disoproxil fumarate long-term therapy before HBsAg loss in non-cirrhotic HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B 

      Papatheodoridis G.V., Rigopoulou E.I., Papatheodoridi M., Zachou K., Xourafas V., Gatselis N., Hadziyannis E., Vlachogiannakos J., Manolakopoulos S., Dalekos G.N. (2018)
      Background: The remission rates after stopping antivirals in hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-negative chronic hepatitis B (CHB) vary among studies, while reliable predictors of relapse have not been identified. This prospective ...
    • Development and Testing of a Novel Anaesthesia Induction/Ventilation Protocol for Patients With Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction 

      Chalkias A., Pavlopoulos F., Papageorgiou E., Tountas C., Anania A., Panteli M., Beloukas A., Xanthos T. (2018)
      Background: Cardiogenic shock is a life-threatening condition and patients might require rapid sequence induction (RSI) and mechanical ventilation. In this study, we evaluated a new RSI/mechanical ventilation protocol in ...
    • Double fixation for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair using AFX body and Endurant proximal aortic cuff: Mid-term results 

      Matsagkas M.I., Kouvelos G., Spanos K., Athanasoulas A., Giannoukas A. (2017)
      Our goal was to evaluate the use of an AFX main body combined with an Endurant proximal aortic cuff to treat selected patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) associated with anatomical challenges, such as a small ...
    • Early recurrence and major bleeding in patients with acute ischemic stroke and atrial fibrillation treated with Non-Vitamin-K oral anticoagulants (RAF-NOACs) Study 

      Paciaroni M., Agnelli G., Falocci N., Tsivgoulis G., Vadikolias K., Liantinioti C., Chondrogianni M., Bovi P., Carletti M., Cappellari M., Zedde M., Ntaios G., Karagkiozi E., Athanasakis G., Makaritsis K., Silvestrelli G., Lanari A., Ciccone A., Putaala J., Tomppo L., Tatlisumak T., Abdul-Rahim A.H., Lees K.R., Alberti A., Venti M., Acciarresi M., D'Amore C., Becattini C., Mosconi M.G., Cimini L.A., Soloperto R., Masotti L., Vannucchi V., Lorenzini G., Tassi R., Guideri F., Acampa M., Martini G., Sohn S.-I., Marcheselli S., Mumoli N., De Lodovici M.L., Bono G., Furie K.L., Tadi P., Yaghi S., Toni D., Letteri F., Tassinari T., Kargiotis O., Lotti E.M., Flomin Y., Mancuso M., Maccarrone M., Giannini N., Bandini F., Pezzini A., Poli L., Padovani A., Scoditti U., Denti L., Consoli D., Galati F., Sacco S., Carolei A., Tiseo C., Gourbali V., Orlandi G., Giuntini M., Chiti A., Giorli E., Gialdini G., Corea F., Ageno W., Bellesini M., Colombo G., Monaco S., Baronello M.M., Karapanayiotides T., Caso V. (2017)
      Background--The optimal timing to administer non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (NOACs) in patients with acute ischemic stroke and atrial fibrillation is unclear. This prospective observational multicenter study evaluated ...
    • The effect of early motion on tibial tunnel widening after anterior cruciate ligament replacement using hamstring tendon grafts 

      Hantes, M. E.; Mastrokalos, D. S.; Yu, J.; Paessler, H. H. (2004)
      The purpose of this study was to evaluate the hypothesis that early motion increases tibial tunnel enlargement in patients who underwent anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) replacement with hamstring autograft. Cohort analytic ...
    • Efficacy and Safety of Rivaroxaban Versus Aspirin in Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source and Carotid Atherosclerosis 

      Ntaios G., Swaminathan B., Berkowitz S.D., Gagliardi R.J., Lang W., Siegler J.E., Lavados P., Mundl H., Bornstein N., Meseguer E., Amarenco P., Cucchiara B., Camps-Renom P., Makaritsis K., Korompoki E., Papavasileiou V., Marti-Fabregas J., Milionis H., Vemmos K., Connolly S.J., Hart R.G. (2019)
      Background and Purpose - The sources of emboli in patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) are multiple and may not respond uniformly to anticoagulation. In this exploratory subgroup analysis of patients ...