Browsing by Subject "Aged, 80 and over"

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      Assessment of the risk factors of coronary heart events based on data mining with decision trees 

      Karaolis, Minas A.; Moutiris, Joseph Antoniou; Hadjipanayi, Demetra; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2010)
      Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the major causes of disability in adults as well as one of the main causes of death in the developed countries. Although significant progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment ...
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      Familial C3 Glomerulopathy Associated with CFHR5 Mutations: Clinical Characteristics of 91 Patients in 16 Pedigrees 

      Athanasiou, Yiannis; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Gale, D. P.; Damianou, Loukas; Patsias, Charalambos; Zavros, Michalis; Maxwell, P. H.; Cook, H. T.; Demosthenous, Panayiota; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; Kyriacou, Kyriacos C.; Zouvani, Ioanna; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2011)
      Background and objectives Complement factor H and related proteins (CFHR) are key regulators of the alternative complement pathway, where loss of function mutations lead to a glomerulopathy with isolated mesangial C3 ...
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      First and second order statistical texture features in carotid plaque image analysis: preliminary results from ongoing research. 

      Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Petroudi, Styliani; Pattichis, Marios S.; Griffin, Maura B.; Kakkos, Stavros K.; Makris, Gregory C. (2011)
      Carotid plaques have been associated with ipsilateral neurological symptoms. High-resolution ultrasound can provide information not only on the degree of carotid artery stenosis but also on the characteristics of the ...
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      Genotype-renal function correlation in type 2 autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease 

      Magistroni, R.; He, N.; Wang, K.; Andrew, R.; Johnson, A.; Gabow, P.; Dicks, E.; Parfrey, P.; Torra, R.; San-Millan, J. L.; Coto, E.; Van Dijk, M.; Breuning, M.; Peters, D.; Bogdanova, N.; Ligabue, G.; Albertazzi, A.; Hateboer, N.; Demetriou, Kyproula; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; St. George-Hyslop, P.; Ravine, D.; Pei, Y. (2003)
      Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a common Mendelian disorder that affects approximately 1 in 1000 live births. Mutations of two genes, PKD1 and PKD2, account for the disease in approximately 80 to ...
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      An integrated system for the segmentation of atherosclerotic carotid plaque 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N. (2007)
      In this paper, we propose and evaluate an integrated system for the segmentation of atherosclerotic plaque in ultrasound imaging of the carotid artery based on normalization, speckle reduction filtering, and four different ...
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      Media thickness measurement of the common carotid artery. 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N.; Georgiou, Niki; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C. (2007)
      The intima-media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) is widely used as an early indicator of the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). It was proposed but not thoroughly investigated that the media ...
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      Molecular and Clinical Investigation of Cystinuria in the Greek-Cypriot Population 

      Athanasiou, Yiannis; Voskarides, Konstantinos; Chatzikyriakidou, Anthoula L.; Ignatiou, Anastasia; Demosthenous, Panayiota; Elia, Avraam; Zavros, Michalis; Georgiou, Ioannis A.; Pierides, Alkis M.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2015)
      Background and Aims: Cystinuria represents 3% of nephrolithiasis in humans. Two genes have been identified as the main genetic causes of cystinuria, SLC3A1 and SLC7A9, with an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. In ...
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      Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis C infection in cyprus: Evidence of polyphyletic infection 

      Demetriou, Victoria L.; Van De Vijver, D. A. M. C.; Kostrikis, Leontios G.; Chimonides, S.; Evgeniou, N. A.; Hadjigeorgiou-Vounou, E.; Koliou-Mazeri, M.; Papakyriakou, P.; Petsas, L.; Potamitis, G. (2009)
      The genetic diversity of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Cyprus is investigated for the first time in this study. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the CORE-E1 and NS5B regions of the HCV genome was performed on blood plasma ...
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      The MTHFR 677TT and 677CT/1298AC genotypes in Cypriot patients may be predisposing to hypertensive nephrosclerosis and chronic renal failure 

      Koupepidou, P.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Christofides, Tasos C.; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Zouvani, Ioanna; Pierides, Alkis M. (2005)
      Aim. The homozygous 677TT mutation of the MTHFR gene has been linked to deep vein thrombosis and to arterial atherosclerotic events of the coronary, carotid and peripheral arteries. Its putative association with renal ...
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      The MTHFR 677TT and 677CT/1298AC genotypes in Cypriot patients may be predisposing to hypertensive nephrosclerosis and chronic renal failureAAA 

      Koupepidou, P.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Christofides, Tasos C.; Athanasiou, Yiannis; Zouvani, Ioanna; Pierides, Alkis M. (2005)
      Aim. The homozygous 677TT mutation of the MTHFR gene has been linked to deep vein thrombosis and to arterial atherosclerotic events of the coronary, carotid and peripheral arteries. Its putative association with renal ...
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      Near full-length genetic analysis of HIV sequences derived from Cyprus: Evidence of a highly polyphyletic and evolving infection 

      Kousiappa, Ioanna; Van De Vijver, D. A. M. C.; Kostrikis, Leontios G. (2009)
      The molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 infection was previously studied in Cyprus but the degree of HIV-1 diversity has remained indefinable. The main objective of the present study is to examine HIV-1 strains isolated from ...
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      Near-full genome characterization of unclassified hepatitis c virus strains relating to genotypes 1 and 4 

      Demetriou, Victoria L.; Kostrikis, Leontios G. (2011)
      Near-full genome sequences are presented in this report for the first time of unclassified HCV strains amplified using RT-PCR from plasma of patients living in Cyprus. One strain appears to be a unique genotype-1-like ...
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      New miRNA profiles accurately distinguish renal cell carcinomas and upper tract urothelial carcinomas from the normal kidney 

      Zaravinos, Apostolos; Lambrou, George I.; Mourmouras, Nikos; Katafygiotis, Patroklos; Papagregoriou, Gregory N.; Giannikou, Krinio; Delakas, Dimitrios S.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D. (2014)
      Background: Upper tract urothelial carcinomas (UT-UC) can invade the pelvicalyceal system making differential diagnosis of the various histologically distinct renal cell carcinoma (RCC) subtypes and UT-UC, difficult. Correct ...
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      Phenoxodiol, an anticancer isoflavene, induces immunomodulatory effects in vitro and in vivo 

      Georgaki, Sylvianna; Skopeliti, Margarita; Tsiatas, Marinos L.; Nicolaou, Katerina A.; Ioannou, Kyriaki; Husband, A.; Bamias, Aristotelis T.; Dimopoulos, Meletios A.; Constantinou, Andreas I.; Tsitsilonis, Ourania E. (2009)
      Phenoxodiol (PXD) is a synthetic analogue of the plant isoflavone genistein with improved anticancer efficacy. Various properties and mechanisms of action have been attributed to the drug, the most important being its ...
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      Prediction of high-risk asymptomatic carotid plaques based on ultrasonic image features 

      Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Petroudi, Styliani; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Griffin, Maura B.; Kakkos, Stavros K.; Nicolaïdes, Andrew N. (2012)
      Carotid plaques have been associated with ipsilateral neurological symptoms. High-resolution ultrasound can provide information not only on the degree of carotid artery stenosis but also on the characteristics of the ...
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      Ultrasound image texture analysis of the intima and media layers of the common carotid artery and its correlation with age and gender 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Pattichis, Marios S.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2009)
      The intima-media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) is widely used as an early indicator of cardiovascular disease (CVD). It was proposed but not thoroughly investigated that the composition and texture of ...
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      Variable clinical presentation of an MUC1 mutation causing medullary cystic kidney disease type 1 

      Bleyer, A. J.; Kmoch, S.; Antignac, C.; Robins, V.; Kidd, K.; Kelsoe, J. R.; Hladik, G.; Klemmer, P.; Knohl, S. J.; Scheinman, S. J.; Vo, N.; Santi, A.; Harris, A.; Canaday, O.; Weller, N.; Hulick, P. J.; Vogel, K.; Rahbari-Oskoui, F. F.; Tuazon, J.; Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Somers, D.; Megarbane, A.; Kimmel, P. L.; Sperati, C. J.; Orr-Urtreger, A.; Ben-Shachar, S.; Waugh, D. A.; Mcginn, S.; Bleyer Jr., A. J.; Hodaňová, K.; Vyletal, P.; Živná, M.; Hart, T. C.; Hart, P. S. (2014)
      Background and objectives The genetic cause of medullary cystic kidney disease type 1 was recently identified as a cytosine insertion in the variable number of tandem repeat region of MUC1 encoding mucoprotein-1 (MUC1), a ...