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    • AMPA receptor GluA2 subunit defects are a cause of neurodevelopmental disorders 

      Salpietro V., Dixon C.L., Guo H., Bello O.D., Vandrovcova J., Efthymiou S., Maroofian R., Heimer G., Burglen L., Valence S., Torti E., Hacke M., Rankin J., Tariq H., Colin E., Procaccio V., Striano P., Mankad K., Lieb A., Chen S., Pisani L., Bettencourt C., Männikkö R., Manole A., Brusco A., Grosso E., Ferrero G.B., Armstrong-Moron J., Gueden S., Bar-Yosef O., Tzadok M., Monaghan K.G., Santiago-Sim T., Person R.E., Cho M.T., Willaert R., Yoo Y., Chae J.-H., Quan Y., Wu H., Wang T., Bernier R.A., Xia K., Blesson A., Jain M., Motazacker M.M., Jaeger B., Schneider A.L., Boysen K., Muir A.M., Myers C.T., Gavrilova R.H., Gunderson L., Schultz-Rogers L., Klee E.W., Dyment D., Osmond M., Parellada M., Llorente C., Gonzalez-Peñas J., Carracedo A., Van Haeringen A., Ruivenkamp C., Nava C., Heron D., Nardello R., Iacomino M., Minetti C., Skabar A., Fabretto A., Hanna M.G., Bugiardini E., Hostettler I., O’Callaghan B., Khan A., Cortese A., O’Connor E., Yau W.Y., Bourinaris T., Kaiyrzhanov R., Chelban V., Madej M., Diana M.C., Vari M.S., Pedemonte M., Bruno C., Balagura G., Scala M., Fiorillo C., Nobili L., Malintan N.T., Zanetti M.N., Krishnakumar S.S., Lignani G., Jepson J.E.C., Broda P., Baldassari S., Rossi P., Fruscione F., Madia F., Traverso M., De-Marco P., Pérez-Dueñas B., Munell F., Kriouile Y., El-Khorassani M., Karashova B., Avdjieva D., Kathom H., Tincheva R., Van-Maldergem L., Nachbauer W., Boesch S., Gagliano A., Amadori E., Goraya J.S., Sultan T., Kirmani S., Ibrahim S., Jan F., Mine J., Banu S., Veggiotti P., Zuccotti G.V., Ferrari M.D., Van Den Maagdenberg A.M.J., Verrotti A., Marseglia G.L., Savasta S., Soler M.A., Scuderi C., Borgione E., Chimenz R., Gitto E., Dipasquale V., Sallemi A., Fusco M., Cuppari C., Cutrupi M.C., Ruggieri M., Cama A., Capra V., Mencacci N.E., Boles R., Gupta N., Kabra M., Papacostas S., Zamba-Papanicolaou E., Dardiotis E., Maqbool S., Rana N., Atawneh O., Lim S.Y., Shaikh F., Koutsis G., Breza M., Coviello D.A., Dauvilliers Y.A., AlKhawaja I., AlKhawaja M., Al-Mutairi F., Stojkovic T., Ferrucci V., Zollo M., Alkuraya F.S., Kinali M., Sherifa H., Benrhouma H., Turki I.B.Y., Tazir M., Obeid M., Bakhtadze S., Saadi N.W., Zaki M.S., Triki C.C., Benfenati F., Gustincich S., Kara M., Belcastro V., Specchio N., Capovilla G., Karimiani E.G., Salih A.M., Okubadejo N.U., Ojo O.O., Oshinaike O.O., Oguntunde O., Wahab K., Bello A.H., Abubakar S., Obiabo Y., Nwazor E., Ekenze O., Williams U., Iyagba A., Taiwo L., Komolafe M., Senkevich K., Shashkin C., Zharkynbekova N., Koneyev K., Manizha G., Isrofilov M., Guliyeva U., Salayev K., Khachatryan S., Rossi S., Silvestri G., Haridy N., Ramenghi L.A., Xiromerisiou G., David E., Aguennouz M., Fidani L., Spanaki C., Tucci A., Raspall-Chaure M., Chez M., Tsai A., Fassi E., Shinawi M., Constantino J.N., De Zorzi R., Fortuna S., Kok F., Keren B., Bonneau D., Choi M., Benzeev B., Zara F., Mefford H.C., Scheffer I.E., Clayton-Smith J., Macaya A., Rothman J.E., Eichler E.E., Kullmann D.M., Houlden H., SYNAPS Study Group (2019)
      AMPA receptors (AMPARs) are tetrameric ligand-gated channels made up of combinations of GluA1-4 subunits encoded by GRIA1-4 genes. GluA2 has an especially important role because, following post-transcriptional editing at ...
    • The association between retinopathy of prematurity and ocular growth 

      Kardaras D., Papageorgiou E., Gaitana K., Grivea I., Dimitriou V.A., Androudi S., Gounaris A., Tsironi E.E. (2019)
      PURPOSE. The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate the association between retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and ocular growth in premature infants during the earliest weeks of life. METHODS. Premature ...
    • Breastfeeding and overweight in european preschoolers: The toybox study 

      Usheva N., Lateva M., Galcheva S., Koletzko B.V., Cardon G., De Craemer M., Androutsos O., Kotowska A., Socha P., Moreno L.A., Manios Y., Iotova V., ToyBox-Study Group (2021)
      The benefits of breastfeeding (BF) include risk reduction of later overweight and obesity. We aimed to analyse the association between breastfeeding practices and overweight/obesity among preschool children participating ...
    • A case-control study on the risk factors for meningococcal disease among children in Greece 

      Hadjichristodoulou C., Mpalaouras G., Vasilopoulou V., Katsioulis A., Rachiotis G., Theodoridou K., Tzanakaki G., Syriopoulou V., Theodoridou M. (2016)
      Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify environmental or genetic risk factors that are associated with invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in children in Greece. Methods: A case-control study was performed in 133 ...
    • Children and Adolescents with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Epidemiology, Clinical Course and Viral Loads 

      Maltezou H.C., Magaziotou I., Dedoukou X., Eleftheriou E., Raftopoulos V., Michos A., Lourida A., Panopoulou M., Stamoulis K., Papaevangelou V., Petinaki E., Mentis A., Papa A., Tsakris A., Roilides E., Syrogiannopoulos G.A., Tsolia M., Greek Study Group on SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Children (2020)
      Background: There is limited information on severe acute respiratory syndrome virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in children. Methods: We retrieved data from the national database on SARS-CoV-2 infections. We studied in-family ...
    • Clinical and laboratory features of children with community-acquired pneumonia are associated with distinct radiographic presentations 

      Falup-Pecurariu O.G., Diez-Domingo J., Esposito S., Finn A., Rodrigues F., Spoulou V., Syrogiannopoulos G.A., Usonis V., Greenberg D., on behalf of CAP-PRI (2018)
      Chest radiographs from children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) were categorized into three distinct presentations and each presentation was correlated to clinical and laboratory findings. Children < 59 months ...
    • Clinical and virological heterogeneity of hepatitis delta in different regions world-wide: The Hepatitis Delta International Network (HDIN) 

      Wranke A., Pinheiro Borzacov L.M., Parana R., Lobato C., Hamid S., Ceausu E., Dalekos G.N., Rizzetto M., Turcanu A., Niro G.A., Lubna F., Abbas M., Ingiliz P., Buti M., Ferenci P., Vanwolleghem T., Hayden T., Dashdorj N., Motoc A., Cornberg M., Abbas Z., Yurdaydin C., Manns M.P., Wedemeyer H., Hardtke S., Serrano B., Wöbse M., Heidrich B., Muche M., Gatselis N., Zachou K., Ho E., Smedile A., Fontana R., Gish R., Obretin D., Stern R., the Hepatitis Delta International Network (2018)
      Background & Aims: Chronic hepatitis D (delta) is a major global health burden. Clinical and virological characteristics of patients with hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection and treatment approaches in different regions ...
    • Clinical Experience with Daptomycin for the Treatment of Gram-positive Infections in Children and Adolescents 

      Syriopoulou V., Dailiana Z., Dmitriy N., Utili R., Pathan R., Hamed K. (2016)
      Background: This subgroup analysis of the European Cubicin Outcomes Registry Experience evaluated the safety and effectiveness of daptomycin in children and adolescent patients (<18 years). Methods: Clinical outcomes at ...
    • 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 ...
    • Daptomycin Use in Children: Experience with Various Types of Infection and Age Groups 

      Syrogiannopoulos G.A., Michoula A.N., Petinaki E., Grivea I.N. (2017)
      Background: In Greece, there are high rates of methicillin (40%-60%) and clindamycin (15%-25%) resistance among community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus isolates. Therefore, we sought to identify other antimicrobial treatment ...
    • Differences in survival and cause-specific mortality in a culturally diverse Greek population, 1999-2008 

      Nikolaidis C., Nena E., Agorastakis M., Constantinidis T.C. (2016)
      Background: Modern urban populations exhibit considerable internal heterogeneity. Several social groups, such as ethnic minorities or immigrants, constitute individual clusters with different demographic and epidemiological ...
    • Economic crisis impact and social determinants of perinatal outcomes and infant mortality in Greece 

      Zilidis C., Hadjichristodoulou C. (2020)
      (1) Background: To explore the effects of the 2008 economic crisis on maternal, perinatal and infant mortality in Greece and the socio-economic determinants associated with them; (2) Methods: The annual rates of stillbirth ...
    • Emm Types and clusters and macrolide resistance of pediatric group A streptococcal isolates in Central Greece during 2011-2017 

      Grivea I.N., Syrogiannopoulos G.A., Michoula A.N., Gazeti G., Malli E., Tsilipounidaki K., Fouzas S., Anthracopoulos M.B., Petinaki E. (2020)
      Background The surveillance of emm types and macrolide susceptibility of group A streptococcus (GAS) in various areas and time periods enhances the understanding of the epidemiology of GAS infections and may guide treatment ...
    • Environmental parameters as risk factors for human and canine Leishmania infection in Thessaly, Central Greece 

      Giannakopoulos A., Tsokana C.N., Pervanidou D., Papadopoulos E., Papaspyropoulos K., Spyrou V., Rodi Burriel A., Vakali A., Hadjichristodoulou C., Billinis C. (2016)
      Thessaly, Central Greece, is an endemic area for leishmaniasis with higher incidence rate during the last years. We herein investigated the geographical distribution of human leishmaniasis cases and Leishmania infected ...
    • Epidemiology of hepatitis A in Greece in the last decade. Management of reported cases and outbreaks and lessons learned 

      Mellou K., Chrysostomou A., Sideroglou T., Kyritsi M., Georgakopoulou T., Tsiodras S., Hadjichristodoulou C. (2020)
      Hepatitis A is mandatory notifiable in Greece. Here, we present the epidemiological data for 2009-2018 and the results of outbreak investigations performed, and discuss future public health priorities. Overall, 1,193 cases ...
    • ERS statement on obstructive sleep disordered breathing in 1- to 23-month-old children 

      Kaditis A.G., Alvarez M.L.A., Boudewyns A., Abel F., Alexopoulos E.I., Ersu R., Joosten K., Larramona H., Miano S., Narang I., Tan H.-L., Trang H., Tsaoussoglou M., Vandenbussche N., Villa M.P., Waardenburg D.V., Weber S., Verhulst S. (2017)
      The present statement was produced by a European Respiratory Society Task Force to summarise the evidence and current practice on the diagnosis and management of obstructive sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in children ...
    • Evaluation of Genotypes and Epidemiology of Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Greece: A Nationwide Study Spanning 24 Years 

      Kekou K., Svingou M., Sofocleous C., Mourtzi N., Nitsa E., Konstantinidis G., Youroukos S., Skiadas K., Katsalouli M., Pons R., Papavasiliou A., Kotsalis C., Pavlou E., Evangeliou A., Katsarou E., Voudris K., Dinopoulos A., Vorgia P., Niotakis G., Diamantopoulos N., Nakou I., Koute V., Vartzelis G., Papadimas G.-K., Papadopoulos C., Tsivgoulis G., Traeger-Synodinos J. (2020)
      Background: Promising genetic treatments targeting the molecular defect of severe early-onset genetic conditions are expected to dramatically improve patients' quality of life and disease epidemiology. Spinal Muscular ...
    • Exposure assessment on aflatoxin M1 from milk and dairy products-relation to public health 

      Malissiova E., Soultani G., Tsokana K., Alexandraki M., Manouras A. (2022)
      Background-aim: Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) contaminates milk and dairy products that are widely consumed foods. Therefore, there is increased concern for human exposure to the toxic action and the negative health effects that ...
    • Genetic determinants of C1 inhibitor deficiency angioedema age of onset 

      Gianni P., Loules G., Zamanakou M., Kompoti M., Csuka D., Psarros F., Magerl M., Moldovan D., Maurer M., Speletas M.G., Farkas H., Germenis A.E. (2017)
      Background: In view of the large heterogeneity in the clinical presentation of hereditary angioedema due to C1 inhibitor deficiency (C1-INH-HAE), great efforts are being made towards detecting measurable biological ...
    • Global Epidemiology of Vaccine-preventable Bacterial Meningitis 

      Syrogiannopoulos G.A., Michoula A.N., Grivea I.N. (2022)
      [No abstract available]