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Spontaneous traumatic macular hole closure in a 50-year-old woman: A case report

Nasr, M. B.; Symeonidis, C.; Tsinopoulos, I.; Androudi, S.; Rotsos, T.; Dimitrakos, S. A. (2011)

Introduction. Traumatic macular holes (TMH) are well-known complications of ocular contusion injury. Spontaneous closure occurs in approximately 50% of cases, but rarely after the age of thirty. We report a case of spontaneous ...

MEIS1 and BTBD9: Genetic association with restless leg syndrome in end stage renal disease

Schormair, B.; Plag, J.; Kaffe, M.; Groß, N.; Czamara, D.; Samtleben, W.; Lichtner, P.; Ströhle, A.; Stefanidis, I.; Vainas, A.; Dardiotis, E.; Sakkas, G. K.; Gieger, C.; Müller-Myhsok, B.; Meitinger, T.; Heemann, U.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Oexle, K.; Winkelmann, J. (2011)

Background: Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a sleep related movement disorder that occurs both in an idiopathic form and in symptomatic varieties. RLS is a frequent and distressing comorbidity in end stage renal disease ...

Systems biology-based analysis implicates a novel role for vitamin D metabolism in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration

Morrison, M. A.; Silveira, A. C.; Huynh, N.; Jun, G.; Smith, S. E.; Zacharaki, F.; Sato, H.; Loomis, S.; Andreoli, M. T.; Adams, S. M.; Radeke, M. J.; Jelcick, A. S.; Yuan, Y.; Tsiloulis, A. N.; Chatzoulis, D. Z.; Silvestri, G.; Kotoula, M. G.; Tsironi, E. E.; Hollis, B. W.; Chen, R.; Haider, N. B.; Miller, J. W.; Farrer, L. A.; Hageman, G. S.; Kim, I. K.; Schaumberg, D. A.; DeAngelis, M. M. (2011)

Vitamin D has been shown to have anti-angiogenic properties and to play a protective role in several types of cancer, including breast, prostate and cutaneous melanoma. Similarly, vitamin D levels have been shown to be ...

Influence of ROBO1 and RORA on risk of age-related macular degeneration reveals genetically distinct phenotypes in disease pathophysiology

Jun, G.; Nicolaou, M.; Morrison, M. A.; Buros, J.; Morgan, D. J.; Radeke, M. J.; Yonekawa, Y.; Tsironi, E. E.; Kotoula, M. G.; Zacharaki, F.; Mollema, N.; Yuan, Y.; Miller, J. W.; Haider, N. B.; Hageman, G. S.; Kim, I. K.; Schaumberg, D. A.; Farrer, L. A.; DeAngelis, M. M. (2011)

ROBO1 is a strong candidate gene for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) based upon its location under a linkage peak on chromosome 3p12, its expression pattern, and its purported function in a pathway that includes ...

Impact of pregabalin treatment on pain, pain-related sleep interference and general well-being in patients with neuropathic pain: A non-interventional, multicentre, post-marketing study

Anastassiou, E.; Iatrou, C. A.; Vlaikidis, N.; Vafiadou, M.; Stamatiou, G.; Plesia, E.; Lyras, L.; Vadalouca, A. (2011)

Background and Objectives: Numerous controlled clinical trials have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of pregabalin in the treatment of neuropathic pain. The objectives of the present study were to assess the impact of ...

Association of anti-CCP positivity and carriage of TNFRII susceptibility variant with anti-TNF-α response in rheumatoid arthritis

Vasilopoulos, Y.; Bagiatis, V.; Stamatopoulou, D.; Zisopoulos, D.; Alexiou, I.; Sarafidou, T.; Settas, L.; Sakkas, L.; Mamuris, Z. (2011)

Objective: To investigate the possible influence of tumour necrosis factoralpha (TNF), TNF receptor I (TNFRI) and TNF receptor II (TNFRII) gene polymorphisms on anti-TNF treatment responsiveness, stratified by autoantibody ...

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 ...

A large-scale genetic association study to evaluate the contribution of Omi/HtrA2 (PARK13) to Parkinson's disease

Krüger, R.; Sharma, M.; Riess, O.; Gasser, T.; Van Broeckhoven, C.; Theuns, J.; Aasly, J.; Annesi, G.; Bentivoglio, A. R.; Brice, A.; Djarmati, A.; Elbaz, A.; Farrer, M.; Ferrarese, C.; Gibson, J. M.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Hattori, N.; Ioannidis, J. P. A.; Jasinska-Myga, B.; Klein, C.; Lambert, J. C.; Lesage, S.; Lin, J. J.; Lynch, T.; Mellick, G. D.; de Nigris, F.; Opala, G.; Prigione, A.; Quattrone, A.; Ross, O. A.; Satake, W.; Silburn, P. A.; Tan, E. K.; Toda, T.; Tomiyama, H.; Wirdefeldt, K.; Wszolek, Z.; Xiromerisiou, G.; Maraganore, D. M. (2011)

High-profile studies have provided conflicting results regarding the involvement of the Omi/HtrA2 gene in Parkinson's disease (PD) susceptibility. Therefore, we performed a large-scale analysis of the association of common ...

Mycophenolate for the treatment of autoimmune hepatitis: Prospective assessment of its efficacy and safety for induction and maintenance of remission in a large cohort of treatment-naïve patients

Zachou, K.; Gatselis, N.; Papadamou, G.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Dalekos, G. N. (2011)

Background & Aims: Standard therapy for autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is corticosteroids with or without azathioprine. However, 20% of patients do not respond or are intolerant to conventional treatment. Therefore, we evaluated ...

Ocular disease awareness and pattern of ocular manifestation in patients with biopsy-proven lung sarcoidosis

Pefkianaki, M.; Androudi, S.; Praidou, A.; Sourlas, V.; Zakynthinos, E.; Brazitikos, P.; Gourgoulianis, K.; Daniil, Z. (2011)

Purpose: The aim of this research is to study the patterns of ocular involvement in patients with biopsy-proven lung sarcoidosis and estimate the level of patients' awareness of possible ocular complications of sarcoidosis. ...