• 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 72-Year-Old Woman With Multiple Pulmonary Nodules and a History of Malignancy 

      Perlepe G., Karetsi E., Papamichali R., Papadopoulos D., Chevas A., Gourgoulianis K.I. (2021)
      A 72-year-old woman, nonsmoker, presented with approximately 2 months of nonproductive cough. The cough was initially intermittent, occurred more regularly during bedtime, but gradually became more frequent throughout the ...
    • A 9-Year Outcome Study Comparing Cancellous Titanium-Coated Cementless to Cemented Tibial Components of a Single Knee Arthroplasty Design 

      Karachalios T., Komnos G., Amprazis V., Antoniou I., Athanaselis S. (2018)
      Background: The cemented Advance Medial-Pivot total knee arthroplasty (TKA) was designed to reflect contemporary knee kinematics data and has shown satisfactory long-term outcomes. Methods: We retrospectively evaluated ...
    • Acro-osteolysis 

      Botou A., Bangeas A., Alexiou I., Sakkas L.I. (2017)
      Acro-osteolysis is an osteolysis of the distal phalanges of the hands and feet and can affect the terminal tuft or the shaft of the distal phalanx (transverse or band acro-osteolysis). It is often associated with distal ...
    • Acute leriche syndrome in pancreatic adenocarcinoma: A case report 

      Mosa E., Manouvelou S., Tolia M., Tsoukalas N., Ardavanis A., Stasinopoulou M., Kyrgias G., Tavernaraki A. (2020)
      Introduction: Coexistance of pancreatic carcinoma and Leriche syndrome is an extremely rare pathological condition. Leriche syndrome is defined as occlusion of the distal aorta at the bifurcation into the common iliac ...
    • AMPA receptor GluA2 subunit defects are a cause of neurodevelopmental disorders 

      Salpietro V., Dixon C.L., Guo H., Bello O.D., Vandrovcova J., Efthymiou S., Maroofian R., Heimer G., Burglen L., Valence S., Torti E., Hacke M., Rankin J., Tariq H., Colin E., Procaccio V., Striano P., Mankad K., Lieb A., Chen S., Pisani L., Bettencourt C., Männikkö R., Manole A., Brusco A., Grosso E., Ferrero G.B., Armstrong-Moron J., Gueden S., Bar-Yosef O., Tzadok M., Monaghan K.G., Santiago-Sim T., Person R.E., Cho M.T., Willaert R., Yoo Y., Chae J.-H., Quan Y., Wu H., Wang T., Bernier R.A., Xia K., Blesson A., Jain M., Motazacker M.M., Jaeger B., Schneider A.L., Boysen K., Muir A.M., Myers C.T., Gavrilova R.H., Gunderson L., Schultz-Rogers L., Klee E.W., Dyment D., Osmond M., Parellada M., Llorente C., Gonzalez-Peñas J., Carracedo A., Van Haeringen A., Ruivenkamp C., Nava C., Heron D., Nardello R., Iacomino M., Minetti C., Skabar A., Fabretto A., Hanna M.G., Bugiardini E., Hostettler I., O’Callaghan B., Khan A., Cortese A., O’Connor E., Yau W.Y., Bourinaris T., Kaiyrzhanov R., Chelban V., Madej M., Diana M.C., Vari M.S., Pedemonte M., Bruno C., Balagura G., Scala M., Fiorillo C., Nobili L., Malintan N.T., Zanetti M.N., Krishnakumar S.S., Lignani G., Jepson J.E.C., Broda P., Baldassari S., Rossi P., Fruscione F., Madia F., Traverso M., De-Marco P., Pérez-Dueñas B., Munell F., Kriouile Y., El-Khorassani M., Karashova B., Avdjieva D., Kathom H., Tincheva R., Van-Maldergem L., Nachbauer W., Boesch S., Gagliano A., Amadori E., Goraya J.S., Sultan T., Kirmani S., Ibrahim S., Jan F., Mine J., Banu S., Veggiotti P., Zuccotti G.V., Ferrari M.D., Van Den Maagdenberg A.M.J., Verrotti A., Marseglia G.L., Savasta S., Soler M.A., Scuderi C., Borgione E., Chimenz R., Gitto E., Dipasquale V., Sallemi A., Fusco M., Cuppari C., Cutrupi M.C., Ruggieri M., Cama A., Capra V., Mencacci N.E., Boles R., Gupta N., Kabra M., Papacostas S., Zamba-Papanicolaou E., Dardiotis E., Maqbool S., Rana N., Atawneh O., Lim S.Y., Shaikh F., Koutsis G., Breza M., Coviello D.A., Dauvilliers Y.A., AlKhawaja I., AlKhawaja M., Al-Mutairi F., Stojkovic T., Ferrucci V., Zollo M., Alkuraya F.S., Kinali M., Sherifa H., Benrhouma H., Turki I.B.Y., Tazir M., Obeid M., Bakhtadze S., Saadi N.W., Zaki M.S., Triki C.C., Benfenati F., Gustincich S., Kara M., Belcastro V., Specchio N., Capovilla G., Karimiani E.G., Salih A.M., Okubadejo N.U., Ojo O.O., Oshinaike O.O., Oguntunde O., Wahab K., Bello A.H., Abubakar S., Obiabo Y., Nwazor E., Ekenze O., Williams U., Iyagba A., Taiwo L., Komolafe M., Senkevich K., Shashkin C., Zharkynbekova N., Koneyev K., Manizha G., Isrofilov M., Guliyeva U., Salayev K., Khachatryan S., Rossi S., Silvestri G., Haridy N., Ramenghi L.A., Xiromerisiou G., David E., Aguennouz M., Fidani L., Spanaki C., Tucci A., Raspall-Chaure M., Chez M., Tsai A., Fassi E., Shinawi M., Constantino J.N., De Zorzi R., Fortuna S., Kok F., Keren B., Bonneau D., Choi M., Benzeev B., Zara F., Mefford H.C., Scheffer I.E., Clayton-Smith J., Macaya A., Rothman J.E., Eichler E.E., Kullmann D.M., Houlden H., SYNAPS Study Group (2019)
      AMPA receptors (AMPARs) are tetrameric ligand-gated channels made up of combinations of GluA1-4 subunits encoded by GRIA1-4 genes. GluA2 has an especially important role because, following post-transcriptional editing at ...
    • Anatomical Differences Between Intact and Ruptured Large Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms 

      Spanos K., Nana P., Kouvelos G., Mpatzalexis K., Matsagkas M., Giannoukas A.D. (2020)
      Purpose: To compare different anatomical characteristics between intact and ruptured large abdominal aortic aneurysms (rAAA >80 mm) with the goal of refining the process of estimating rupture risk. Materials and Methods: ...
    • Anti-C1q autoantibodies are frequently detected in patients with systemic sclerosis associated with pulmonary fibrosis 

      Liaskos C., Rentouli S., Simopoulou T., Gkoutzourelas A., Norman G.L., Brotis A., Alexiou I., Katsiari C., Bogdanos D.P., Sakkas L.I. (2019)
      Background: Anti-C1q autoantibodies (autoAbs) are associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but their presence in other rheumatic diseases has not been adequately investigated. Objectives: We aimed to assess ...
    • Anti-MCV antibodies predict radiographic progression in Greek patients with very early (<3 months duration) rheumatoid arthritis 

      Barouta G., Katsiari C.G., Alexiou I., Liaskos C., Varna A., Bogdanos D.P., Germenis A.E., Sakkas L.I. (2017)
      This study aimed to assess the diagnostic and prognostic value of anti-mutated citrullinated vimentin (MCV) antibodies in very early rheumatoid arthritis (VERA) and in established rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Seventy-one ...
    • Aortic Arch Atherosclerosis in Patients With Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source: An Exploratory Analysis of the NAVIGATE ESUS Trial 

      Ntaios G., Pearce L.A., Meseguer E., Endres M., Amarenco P., Ozturk S., Lang W., Bornstein N.M., Molina C.A., Pagola J., Mundl H., Berkowitz S.D., Liu Y.Y., Sen S., Connolly S.J., Hart R.G. (2019)
      Background and Purpose- Aortic arch atherosclerosis (AAA) is a possible source of embolism in patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source. Previous studies reported high rates of embolic events in patients with ...
    • Application of Radiomics and Decision Support Systems for Breast MR Differential Diagnosis 

      Tsougos I., Vamvakas A., Kappas C., Fezoulidis I., Vassiou K. (2018)
      Over the years, MR systems have evolved from imaging modalities to advanced computational systems producing a variety of numerical parameters that can be used for the noninvasive preoperative assessment of breast pathology. ...
    • Arteriovenous Malformations: Congenital or Acquired Lesions? 

      Tasiou A., Tzerefos C., Alleyne C.H., Jr., Boccardi E., Karlsson B., Kitchen N., Spetzler R.F., Tolias C.M., Fountas K.N. (2020)
      Objective: Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) were believed to be congenital. However, an increasing number of de novo AVM cases have questioned this doctrine. Methods: A consensus meeting of international experts attempted ...
    • Ascending aortic intramural hematoma: current concepts 

      Nana P., Kouvelos G., Spanos K. (2022)
      Purpose of review Type A intramural hematoma (TAIMH) is an acute aortic disease characterized by the presence of hematoma in the aortic media and involving the ascending aorta. Open repair seems to be the first treatment ...
    • Association between white matter lesions and Parkinson’s disease: an impact on Postural/Gait difficulty phenotype and cognitive performance 

      Sinani O., Dadouli K., Ntellas P., Kapsalaki E.Z., Vlychou M., Raptis D.G., Marogianni C., Markou K., Dardiotis E., Xiromerisiou G. (2022)
      Background: White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) may be observed on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in patients with Parkinson disease with or without vascular risk factors. Whether WMHs may influence motor and non-motor ...
    • The association of simple renal cysts with abdominal aortic aneurysms and their impact on renal function after endovascular aneurysm repair 

      Spanos K., Rountas C., Saleptsis V., Athanasoulas A., Fezoulidis I., Giannoukas A.D. (2016)
      We validated the association of simple renal cysts with abdominal aortic aneurysm and other cardiovascular factors and assessed simple renal cysts’ impact on renal function before and after endovascular abdominal aortic ...
    • Associations between ghrelin and leptin and neural food cue reactivity in a fasted and sated state 

      Wever M.C.M., van Meer F., Charbonnier L., Crabtree D.R., Buosi W., Giannopoulou A., Androutsos O., Johnstone A.M., Manios Y., Meek C.L., Holst J.J., Smeets P.A.M., Full4Health consortium (2021)
      Food cue exposure can trigger eating. Food cue reactivity (FCR) is a conditioned response to food cues and includes physiological responses and activation of reward-related brain areas. FCR can be affected by hunger and ...
    • Atrial cardiopathy and non-stenotic intracranial complicated atherosclerotic plaque in patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source 

      Tao L., Dai Y.-J., Shang Z.-Y., Li X.-Q., Wang X.-H., Ntaios G., Chen H.-S. (2022)
      OBJECTIVE: To assess (1) the association between atrial cardiopathy (AC) and non-stenotic intracranial complicated atherosclerotic plaque (NICAP) in patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) or small-vessel ...
    • Automated Analysis vs. Expert Reading in Nuclear Cardiology: Correlations with the Angiographic Score 

      Angelidis G., Valotassiou V., Tsougos I., Tzavara C., Psimadas D., Theodorou E., Ziaka A., Giannakou S., Ziangas C., Skoularigis J., Triposkiadis F., Georgoulias P. (2022)
      Background and Objectives: Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) has an important role in the non-invasive investigation of coronary artery disease. The interpretation of MPI studies is mainly based on the visual evaluation ...
    • Better knee function after surgical repair of acute quadriceps tendon rupture in comparison to acute patellar tendon rupture 

      Hantes M.E., Mathews R., Raoulis V., Varitimidis S., Karachalios T., Malizos K.N. (2019)
      Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a difference in knee function between patients with quadriceps tendon rupture and patellar tendon rupture after acute surgical repair. Our hypothesis was ...