• Early outcomes of the t-Branch off-the-shelf multi-branched stent graft in 542 patients for elective and urgent aortic pathologies: A retrospective observational study 

      Kölbel T., Spanos K., Jama K., Behrendt C.-A., Panuccio G., Eleshra A., Rohlffs F., Jakimowicz T. (2021)
      Objective: The t-Branch, a standardized off-the-shelf multi-branched stent graft has been used for the treatment of elective and urgent cases in aortic disease. The aim of this study was to assess the early outcomes in ...
    • Effectors of Pregorexia and Emesis among Pregnant Women: A Pilot Study 

      Gerontidis A., Grammatikopoulou M.G., Tzimos C., Gkiouras K., Taousani E., Athanasiadis L., Goulis D.G. (2022)
      During pregnancy, women tend to improve their lifestyle habits and refine their dietary intake. Quite often, however, these dietary improvements take an unhealthy turn, with orthorexia nervosa (ON) practices being apparent. ...
    • The effects of spirulina supplementation on redox status and performance following a muscle damaging protocol 

      Pappas A., Tsiokanos A., Fatouros I.G., Poulios A., Kouretas D., Goutzourelas N., Giakas G., Jamurtas A.Z. (2021)
      Spirulina plantensis is a popular supplement which has been shown to have antioxidant and performance enhancing properties. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of spirulina supplementation on (a) redox ...
    • The efficacy of immunomodulators in the prevention and suppression of anti-drug antibodies to anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy in inflammatory bowel disease 

      Fousekis F.S., Papamichael K., Kourtis G., Albani E.N., Orfanidou A., Saridi M., Katsanos K.H., Christodoulou D.K. (2022)
      The development of biological agents against tumor necrosis factor (TNF) has revolutionized the management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), frequently achieving induction and maintenance of remission in both ulcerative ...
    • Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source and Detection of Atrial Fibrillation on Follow-Up: How Much Causality Is There? 

      Ntaios G., Papavasileiou V., Lip G.Y.H., Milionis H., Makaritsis K., Vemmou A., Koroboki E., Manios E., Spengos K., Michel P., Vemmos K. (2016)
      Background There is increasing debate whether atrial fibrillation (AF) episodes during follow-up in patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) are causally associated with the event. AF-related strokes are ...
    • Endovascular Thrombectomy in Acute Ischemic Stroke 

      Papanagiotou P., Ntaios G. (2018)
      Despite several effective strategies of stroke prevention, the stroke epidemic still constitutes the leading cause of permanent disability. The recent series of well-designed, convincingly-positive randomized controlled ...
    • Evaluation of 12 GWAS-drawn SNPs as biomarkers of rheumatoid arthritis response to TNF inhibitors. A potential SNP association with response to etanercept 

      Ferreiro-Iglesias A., Montes A., Perez-Pampin E., Cañete J.D., Raya E., Magro-Checa C., Vasilopoulos Y., Caliz R., Ferrer M.A., Joven B., Carreira P., Balsa A., Salcedo D.P., Blanco F.J., Moreno-Ramos M.J., Manrique-Arija S., Del Carmen Ordonez M., Alegre-Sancho J.J., Narvaez J., Navarro-Sarabia F., Moreira V., Valor L., Garcia-Portales R., Marquez A., Gomez-Reino J.J., Martin J., Gonzalez A. (2019)
      Research in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is increasingly focused on the discovery of biomarkers that could enable personalized treatments. The genetic biomarkers associated with the response to TNF inhibitors (TNFi) are among ...
    • Evaluation of the performance of 18F-fluorothymidine positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FLT-PET/CT) in metastatic brain lesions 

      Nikaki A., Papadopoulos V., Valotassiou V., Efthymiadou R., Angelidis G., Tsougos I., Prassopoulos V., Georgoulias P. (2019)
      18F-fluorothymidine (18F-FLT) is a radiolabeled thymidine analog that has been reported to help monitor tumor proliferation and has been studied in primary brain tumors; however, knowledge about 18F-FLT positron emission ...
    • Exhaled breath condensate in asthma: From bench to bedside 

      Loukides, S.; Kontogianni, K.; Hillas, G.; Horvath, I. (2011)
      The need for non-invasive assessment of airway inflammation is imperative, since inflammatory airway diseases, such as asthma and COPD, are characterized by variation in their clinical presentation throughout their course. ...
    • Fast-resorbable antibiotic-loaded hydrogel coating to reduce post-surgical infection after internal osteosynthesis: a multicenter randomized controlled trial 

      Malizos K., Blauth M., Danita A., Capuano N., Mezzoprete R., Logoluso N., Drago L., Romanò C.L. (2017)
      Background: Infection is one of the main reasons for failure of orthopedic implants. Antibacterial coatings may prevent bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation, according to various preclinical studies. The aim of the ...
    • Global, regional, and national consumption of animal-source foods between 1990 and 2018: findings from the Global Dietary Database 

      Miller V., Reedy J., Cudhea F., Zhang J., Shi P., Erndt-Marino J., Coates J., Micha R., Webb P., Mozaffarian D., Abbott P., Abdollahi M., Abedi P., Abumweis S., Adair L., Al Nsour M., Al-Daghri N., Al-Hamad N., Al-Hooti S., Al-Zenki S., Alam I., Ali J.H., Alissa E., Anderson S., Anzid K., Arambepola C., Arici M., Arsenault J., Asciak R., Barbieri H.E., Barengo N., Barquera S., Bas M., Becker W., Beer-Borst S., Bergman P., Biró L., Boindala S., Bovet P., Bradshaw D., Bukhary N.B., Bundhamcharoen K., Caballero M., Calleja N., Cao X., Capanzana M., Carmikle J., Castetbon K., Castro M., Cerdena C., Chang H.-Y., Charlton K., Chen Y., Chen M.F., Chiplonkar S., Cho Y., Chuah K.-A., Costanzo S., Cowan M., Damasceno A., Dastgiri S., De Henauw S., DeRidder K., Ding E., Dommarco R., Don R., Duante C., Duleva V., Duran Aguero S., Ekbote V., El Ati J., El Hamdouchi A., El-kour T., Eldridge A., Elmadfa I., Esteghamati A., Etemad Z., Fadzil F., Farzadfar F., Fernandez A., Fernando D., Fisberg R., Forsyth S., Gamboa-Delgado E., Garriguet D., Gaspoz J.-M., Gauci D., Geleijnse M., Ginnela B., Grosso G., Guessous I., Gulliford M., Gunnarsdottir I., Hadden W., Hadziomeragic A., Haerpfer C., Hakeem R., Haque A., Hashemian M., Hemalatha R., Henjum S., Hinkov H., Hjdaud Z., Hoffman D., Hopping B., Houshiar-rad A., Hsieh Y.-T., Hung S.-Y., Huybrechts I., Hwalla N.C., Ibrahim H.M., Ikeda N., Illescas-Zarate D., Inoue M., Janakiram C., Jayawardena R., Jeewon R., Jitnarin N., Johansson L., Jonsdottir O., Jundishapur A., Kally O., Kandiah M., Karupaiah T., Keinan-Boker L., Kelishadi R., Khadilkar A., Kim C.-I., Koksal E., Konig J., Korkalo L., Koster J., Kovalskys I., Krishnan A., Kruger H., Kuriyan-Raj R., Kweon S., Lachat C., Lai Y., Lanerolle P., Laxmaiah A., Leclercq C., Lee M.-S., Lee H.-J., Lemming E.W., Li Y., Lindström J., Ling A., Liputo N.I., Lopez-Jaramillo P., Luke A., Lukito W., Lupotto E., Ma Y., Mahdy Z.A., Malekzadeh R., Manan W., Marchioni D., Marques L.L., Marques-Vidal P., Martin-Prevel Y., Mathee A., Matsumura Y., Mazumdar P., Memon A., Mensink G., Meyer A., Mirmiran P., Mirzaei M., Misra P., Misra A., Mitchell C., Mohamed H.J., Mohammadi-Nasrabadi F., Mohammadifard N., Moy F.M., Musaiger A., Mwaniki E., Myhre J., Nagalla B., Naska A., Ng S.A., Ng S.W., Ngoan L.T., Noshad S., Ochoa A., Ocke M., Odenkirk J., Oh K., Oleas M., Olivares S., Orfanos P., Ortiz-Ulloa J., Otero J., Ovaskainen M.-L., Pakseresht M., Palacios C., Palmer P., Pan W.-H., Panagiotakos D., Parajuli R., Park M., Pekcan G., Petrova S., Piaseu N., Pitsavos C., Polasa K., Posada L., Pourfarzi F., Preston A.M., Rached I., Rahbar A.R., Rehm C., Richter A., Riley L., Salanave B., Sánchez-Romero L.M., Sarrafzadegan N., Sawada N., Sekiyama M., Selamat R., Shamsuddin K., Shariff Z.M., Sharma S., Sibai A.M., Sinkko H., Sioen I., Sisa I., Skeaff S., Steingrimsdottir L., Strand T., Suarez-Ortegon M.F., Swaminathan S., Swan G., Sygnowska E., Szabo M., Szponar L., Tan-Khouw I., Tapanainen H., Tayyem R., Tedla B., Tedstone A., Templeton R., Termote C., Thanopoulou A., Thorgeirsdottir H., Thorsdottir I., Trichopoulos D., Trichopoulou A., Tsugane S., Turrini A., van Oosterhout C., Vartiainen E., Veerman J.L., Virtanen S., Vollenweider P., Vossenaar M., Waidyatilaka I., Waskiewicz A., Waterham E., Wieler L., Wondwossen T., Wu S., Yaakub R., Yap M., Yusof S., Zaghloul S., Zajkás G., Zapata M., Zarina K., Zohoori F.V., Global Dietary Database (2022)
      Background: Diet is a major modifiable risk factor for human health and overall consumption patterns affect planetary health. We aimed to quantify global, regional, and national consumption levels of animal-source foods ...
    • Heart rate variability dynamics during treatment for exertional heat strain when immediate response is not possible 

      Flouris A.D., Friesen B.J., Herry C.L., Seely A.J.E., Notley S.R., Kenny G.P. (2019)
      New Findings: What is the central question of this study? Does a delay in cold water immersion treatment affect the cardiac autonomic control of exertionally heat-strained individuals? What is the main finding and its ...
    • Higher Infection Rate after ACL Reconstruction with Hamstrings Tendon Autografts Compared with Bone Patellar Bone Tendon Autografts: A Review 

      Georgoulis J.D., Mavrogenis A.F., Gkiatas I., Chatzipapas C.N., Koulalis D., Mastrokalos D., Hantes M.E., Georgoulis A.D. (2022)
      Infection after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is a rare but devastating complication resulting in a deleterious impact on knee function as well as an increased related cost for treatment and rehabilitation for ...
    • Identification of a prospective early motor progression cluster of Parkinson's disease: Data from the PPMI study 

      Vavougios G.D., Doskas T., Kormas C., Krogfelt K.A., Zarogiannis S.G., Stefanis L. (2018)
      Aim: The aim of our study is to phenotype PD motor progression, and to detect whether serum, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), neuroimaging biomarkers and neuropsychological measures characterize PD motor progression phenotypes. ...
    • 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 ...
    • Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) expression in lung cancer 

      Karanikas, V.; Zamanakou, M.; Kerenidi, T.; Dahabreh, J.; Hevas, A.; Nakou, M.; Gourgoulianis, K. I.; Germenis, A. E. (2007)
      Background: The expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) by tumor cells has been considered as a major tumor immune escape mechanism. The aim of this study was to investigate the expression of IDO in lung cancer ...
    • Intra-Abdominal Hypertension Causes Bacterial Growth in Lungs: An Animal Study 

      Papakrivou E., Makris D., Manoulakas E., Mitroudi M., Tepetes K., Papazoglou K., Zakynthinos E. (2017)
      To study the effect of intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) on the frequency of pneumonia with an experimental study, thirteen Sprague-Dawley rats were included. Eight out of thirteen animals were randomly assigned to receive ...
    • Intraoperative initiation of a modified ARDSNet protocol increases survival of septic patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome 

      Chalkias A., Xanthos T., Papageorgiou E., Anania A., Beloukas A., Pavlopoulos F. (2018)
      Purpose: To assess the intraoperative initiation and feasibility of a modified NIH-NHLBI ARDS Network Mechanical Ventilation Protocol (mARDSNet protocol) in septic patients with severe ARDS. Materials and methods: This ...
    • Lab to field assessment of the ecotoxicological impact of chlorpyrifos, isoproturon, or tebuconazole on the diversity and composition of the soil bacterial community 

      Storck V., Nikolaki S., Perruchon C., Chabanis C., Sacchi A., Pertile G., Baguelin C., Karas P.A., Spor A., Devers-Lamrani M., Papadopoulou E.S., Sibourg O., Malandain C., Trevisan M., Ferrari F., Karpouzas D.G., Tsiamis G., Martin-Laurent F. (2018)
      Pesticides are intentionally applied to agricultural fields for crop protection. They can harm non-target organisms such as soil microorganisms involved in important ecosystem functions with impacts at the global scale. ...