• The diabetic foot in end stage renal disease 

      Papanas, N.; Liakopoulos, V.; Maltezos, E.; Stefanidis, I. (2007)
      Diabetic foot lesions remain a major cause of morbidity in patients with renal failure, especially those on dialysis. Foot complications are encountered at a more than twofold frequency in diabetic patients with end-stage ...
    • Epidermal growth factor in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers: An update 

      Tiaka, E. K.; Papanas, N.; Manolakis, A. C.; Georgiadis, G. S. (2012)
      Management of diabetic foot ulcers remains a rather challenging task. Epidermal growth factor (EGF) plays a central role in wound healing. It acts on epithelial cells and fibroblasts promoting restoration of damaged ...
    • Increased Cardiovascular and Renal Disease but not Reduced Life Expectancy Among Diabetic Participants in the General Northern Greek Population 

      Papanas, N.; Trypsianis, G.; Tiaka, E. K.; Manolakis, A. C.; Katsavaki, D.; Birka, S.; Natsiopoulos, K.; Maltezos, E.; Papazoglou, N. (2012)
      We compared life expectancy and causes of death based on death certificates of 269 diabetic participants (group A) and 5659 nondiabetic participants (group B) who died from January 1, 1991 to December 31, 2010, in 3 small ...
    • Long-term respiratory follow-up of H1N1 infection 

      Zarogoulidis, P.; Kouliatsis, G.; Papanas, N.; Spyratos, D.; Constantinidis, T. C.; Kouroumichakis, I.; Steiropoulos, P.; Mabroudi, M.; Matthaios, D.; Kerenidi, T.; Courcoutsakis, N.; Zarogoulidis, K.; Maltezos, E. (2011)
      Background: The first case of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection was documented in our Hospital on 10th August 2009. Metdods and findings: Real-time reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) ...
    • The Role of Hyperbaric Oxygen in the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers 

      Tiaka, E. K.; Papanas, N.; Manolakis, A. C.; Maltezos, E. (2012)
      Diabetic foot ulcers are still extremely difficult to heal. Therefore, therapeutic options to improve healing rates are continuously being explored. Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) has been used in addition to standard treatment ...
    • TLR4 gene polymorphisms: evidence for protection against type 2 diabetes but not for diabetes-associated ischaemic heart disease 

      Manolakis, A. C.; Kapsoritakis, A. N.; Tiaka, E. K.; Sidiropoulos, A.; Gerovassili, A.; Satra, M.; Vamvakopoulou, D.; Tsiopoulos, F.; Papanas, N.; Skoularigis, I.; Potamianos, S. P.; Vamvakopoulos, N. (2011)
      Objective: Several factors either predisposing or protecting from the onset of diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) have been proposed. Two specific polymorphisms of toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4; Asp299Gly and Thr399Ile) have ...