• 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 ...
    • Chronic Progressive Dyspnea in a 71-Year-Old Man: A Diagnostic Ithaca After 8 Years of Consultation 

      Dimeas I.E., Sinis S.I., Sgantzou I.K., Ioannou M., Gourgoulianis K.I., Daniil Z. (2020)
      Case Presentation: A 71-year-old ex-bus driver (ex-smoker, 20 pack-years) was admitted for the first time to the respiratory department because of chronic dry cough and progressive exertional dyspnea with insidious onset ...
    • Global assessment of the COPD patient: Time to look beyond FEV1? 

      Papaioannou, A. I.; Loukides, S.; Gourgoulianis, K. I.; Kostikas, K. (2009)
      COPD is a diverse disease entity with multiple dimensions that uniquely define the patient's performance, morbidity and mortality. FEV1 is both the traditional metric used to define the progression of COPD as well as the ...
    • Prognostic assessment in COPD without lung function: The B-AE-D indices 

      Boeck L., Soriano J.B., Brusse-Keizer M., Blasi F., Kostikas K., Boersma W., Milenkovic B., Louis R., Lacoma A., Djamin R., Aerts J., Torres A., Rohde G., Welte T., Martinez-Camblor P., Rakic J., Scherr A., Koller M., Van Der Palen J., Marin J.M., Alfageme I., Almagro P., Casanova C., Esteban C., Soler-Cataluña J.J., De-Torres J.P., Miravitlles M., Celli B.R., Tamm M., Stolz D. (2016)
      Several composite markers have been proposed for risk assessment in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, choice of parameters and score complexity restrict clinical applicability. Our aim was to provide ...