• Death from spontaneous coronary artery dissection in a healthy postmenopausal woman 

      Zagelidou, H.; Leodari, R.; Roupa, Z.; Maras, D.; Sapountzi-Krepia, D.; Terzis, A. (2004)
      Spontaneous dissection of the coronary arteries, in the absence of trauma, is an unusual but well-documented entity that occurs usually in middle-aged women. It is a rare cause of sudden death and myocardial infarction. ...
    • Giant Hip Synovial Cyst Causing Deep Vein Thrombosis and Femoral Head Osteonecrosis in a Rheumatoid Arthritis Patient 

      Syrmou V., Koutalos A.A., Karapli M., Alexiou I., Bogdanos D.P., Katsiari C.G., Simopoulou T. (2022)
      Hip synovial cysts are rare. However, in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) they present in higher frequency than in general population. Herein, we present an unusual case of a 67-year-old man with RA that presented ...
    • A giant inguinoscrotal bladder hernia as a cause of chronic renal failure: A rare case 

      Karatzas, A.; Christodoulidis, G.; Spyridakis, M.; Stavaras, C.; Aravantinos, E.; Melekos, M. (2013)
      INTRODUCTION: Giant inguinoscrotal bladder hernias are very rare and require surgical intervention. They usually do not cause any specific symptoms and thus, they are often misdiagnosed. If left untreated though, they might ...
    • A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants 

      Fritsche L.G., Igl W., Bailey J.N.C., Grassmann F., Sengupta S., Bragg-Gresham J.L., Burdon K.P., Hebbring S.J., Wen C., Gorski M., Kim I.K., Cho D., Zack D., Souied E., Scholl H.P.N., Bala E., ELee K., Hunter D.J., Sardell R.J., Mitchell P., Merriam J.E., Cipriani V., Hoffman J.D., Schick T., Lechanteur Y.T.E., Guymer R.H., Johnson M.P., Jiang Y., Stanton C.M., Buitendijk G.H.S., Zhan X., Kwong A.M., Boleda A., Brooks M., Gieser L., Ratnapriya R., Branham K.E., Foerster J.R., Heckenlively J.R., Othman M.I., Vote B.J., Liang H.H., Souzeau E., McAllister I.L., Isaacs T., Hall J., Lake S., Mackey D.A., Constable I.J., Craig J.E., Kitchner T.E., Yang Z., Su Z., Luo H., Chen D., Ouyang H., Flagg K., Lin D., Mao G., Ferreyra H., Stark K., Von Strachwitz C.N., Wolf A., Brandl C., Rudolph G., Olden M., Morrison M.A., Morgan D.J., Schu M., Ahn J., Silvestri G., Tsironi E.E., Park K.H., Farrer L.A., Orlin A., Brucker A., Li M., Curcio C.A., Mohand-Sa'd S., Sahel J.-A., Audo I., Benchaboune M., Cree A.J., Rennie C.A., Goverdhan S.V., Grunin M., Hagbi-Levi S., Campochiaro P., Katsanis N., Holz F.G., Blond F., Blanché H., Deleuze J.-F., Igo R.P., Jr., Truitt B., Peachey N.S., Meuer S.M., Myers C.E., Moore E.L., Klein R., Hauser M.A., Postel E.A., Courtenay M.D., Schwartz S.G., Kovach J.L., Scott W.K., Liew G., Tan A.G., Gopinath B., Merriam J.C., Smith R.T., Khan J.C., Shahid H., Moore A.T., McGrath J.A., Laux R., Brantley M.A., Jr., Agarwal A., Ersoy L., Caramoy A., Langmann T., Saksens N.T.M., Jong E.K., Hoyng C.B., Cain M.S., Richardson A.J., Martin T.M., Blangero J., Weeks D.E., Dhillon B., Van Duijn C.M., Doheny K.F., Romm J., Klaver C.C.W., Hayward C., Gorin M.B., Klein M.L., Baird P.N., Den Hollander A.I., Fauser S., WYates J.R., Allikmets R., Wang J.J., Schaumberg D.A., Klein B.E.K., Hagstrom S.A., Chowers I., Lotery A.J., Léveillard T., Zhang K., Brilliant M.H., Hewitt A.W., Swaroop A., Chew E.Y., Pericak-Vance M.A., DeAngelis M., Stambolian D., Haines J.L., Iyengar S.K., Weber B.H.F., Abecasis G.R., Heid I.M. (2016)
      Advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly, with limited therapeutic options. Here we report on a study of >12 million variants, including 163,714 directly genotyped, ...
    • Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: An unusual manifestation of brucellosis in a previous healthy male patient 

      Makaritsis, K. P.; Liaskos, C.; Papadamou, G.; Dalekos, G. N. (2015)
      Brucellosis is a common zoonotic disease with worldwide distribution and protean clinical manifestations. Therefore, its prompt and timely diagnosis is still challenging. Among several complications of brucellosis, spontaneous ...
    • Tumor-Like Meniscal Cyst 

      Roidis, N.; Zachos, V.; Basdekis, G.; Hantes, M.; Khaldi, L.; Malizos, K. (2007)
      A 50-year-old woman presented with a 5-year history of mild pain in her right knee, which had increased over the last 2 years. A palpable mass over the anterolateral aspect of the knee was obvious and the last 3 months she ...