• Current laboratory and clinical practices in reporting and interpreting anti-nuclear antibody indirect immunofluorescence (ANA IIF) patterns: results of an international survey 

      Van Hoovels L., Broeders S., Chan E.K.L., Andrade L., de Melo Cruvinel W., Damoiseaux J., Viander M., Herold M., Coucke W., Heijnen I., Bogdanos D., Calvo-Alén J., Eriksson C., Kozmar A., Kuhi L., Bonroy C., Lauwerys B., Schouwers S., Lutteri L., Vercammen M., Mayer M., Patel D., Egner W., Puolakka K., Tesija-Kuna A., Shoenfeld Y., de Sousa M.J.R., Hoyos M.L., Radice A., Bossuyt X. (2020)
      Background: The International Consensus on Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) Patterns (ICAP) has recently proposed nomenclature in order to harmonize ANA indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) pattern reporting. ICAP distinguishes ...
    • 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 ...
    • Impact of the refugee crisis on the greek healthcare system: A long road to Ithaca 

      Kotsiou O.S., Kotsios P., Srivastava D.S., Kotsios V., Gourgoulianis K.I., Exadaktylos A.K. (2018)
      Greece is the country of “Xenios Zeus”, the Ancient Greek god of foreigners and hospitality; however, it is also the main point of entry to Europe. Since the beginning of 2014, 1,112,332 refugees crossed the borders of ...
    • Implementation of physical activity into routine clinical practice in rheumatic musculoskeletal disease: The IMPACT-RMD study protocol and rationale 

      Metsios G.S., Fenton S.A.M., Moe H.R., van der Esch M., van Zanten J.V., Koutedakis Y., Vitalis P., Kennedy N., Brodin N.C., Tzika A., Boström C., Swinnen T.W., Jester R., Schneider K.N., Nikiphorou E., Fragoulis G.E., Vlieland T.P.M.V., Van den Ende C., Kitas G.D. (2019)
      Physical activity is an important intervention for improving disease-related symptoms and systemic manifestations in rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease (RMDs). However, studies suggest that RMD patients report that the ...
    • Musculoskeletal infection in orthopaedic trauma: Assessment of the 2018 international consensus meeting on musculoskeletal infection 

      Obremskey W.T., Metsemakers W.-J., Schlatterer D.R., Tetsworth K., Egol K., Kates S., McNally M., Gibbons J., Kenny P., Stangl P., Patzakis M.J., Ferreira N., Tornetta P., III, Suda A.J., O'Hara N., Salles M.J.C., Bhashyam A.R., Morgenstern M., Manrique J., Malizos K.N., Giannoudis P., Nana A., Egol K.A., Kleftouris G., Reyes F., Klement M.R., Bautista M., Linke P., Citak M., Abdelaziz H., Ecker N.U., Suero E., Caba P., Marais L., Haasper C., Papakostidis C., Natoli R.M., Aldahamsheh O., Abuodeh Y., Quinnan S., Suarez C., Conway J.D., Sánchez Correa C.A., Leal J.A., Zalavras C., Komnos G., Shope A.J., Saxena A., Fram B., Akesson P., Haggard W.O., Vahedi H., Athanaselis E., Pesantez R., Lowenberg D.W., Gleason B., Hendershot E.F., Amaris G., Kates S.L., Chang G., Archdeacon M.T., Pinzón A., Shetty R.P., Chan J., McNally M.A., Shaffer A., Schlatterer D.R., Harris M., Matsushita K., Kvederas G., Garcia M.F., Swiontkowski M.F., Kallel S., Gutierrez V., Alt V., O'Toole R.V., Watson J.T., ICM Orthopaedic Trauma Work Group (2020)
      Fracture-related infections (FRIs) are among the most common complications following fracture fixation, and they have a huge economic and functional impact on patients. Because consensus guidelines with respect to prevention, ...
    • Preliminary Data on the Suitability of Alkaline Phosphatase Use as Pasteurization Indicator for Donkey Milk 

      Malissiova E., Alexandraki M., Manouras A. (2022)
      Donkey milk is a nutraceutical food that is becoming quite popular, especially in Mediterranean countries. Nevertheless, limited data exist on the safety of donkey milk. The European food hygiene regulations require ...
    • SNMMI procedure standard/EANM guideline for gated equilibrium radionuclide angiography 

      Farrell M.B., Galt J.R., Georgoulias P., Malhotra S., Pagnanelli R., Rischpler C., Savir-Baruch B. (2020)
      The purpose of this document is to assist nuclear medicine practitioners in recommending, performing, interpreting, and reporting the results of gated equilibrium radionuclide angiocardiography (ERNA). Copyright © 2020 by ...