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      Comparison between Nageotte and flow cytometric counting of residual leucocytes in freshly prepared leucocyte-reduced red blood cell components 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Kyriakou, Elias; Nearchakos, Nikolaos; Bonovas, Stefanos; Makri, Efstathia; Pantavou, Katerina; Kottaridi, Christine; Gialeraki, Argyri; Douramani, Panagiota; Taichert, Maria; Kapsimali, Violetta; Tsantes, Argirios E. (2018)
      Background Flow cytometry (FC) and Nageotte hemocytometry represent the most widely accepted methods for counting residual white blood cells (rWBCs) in leucocyte-reduced (LR) blood components. Our aim was to study the ...
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      Laboratory Assessment of the Anticoagulant Activity of Apixaban in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Kyriakou, Elias; Katogiannis, Konstantinos; Ikonomidis, Ignatios; Giallouros, George; Rapti, Evdoxia; Taichert, Maria; Pantavou, Katerina; Gialeraki, Argiri; Kousathana, Foteini; Poulis, Aristarchos; Tsantes, Andreas G.; Bonovas, Stefanos; Kapsimali, Violetta; Tsivgoulis, Georgios; Tsantes, Argirios E. (2018)
      Our aim is to determine the most appropriate laboratory tests, besides anti-factor Xa (anti-FXa) chromogenic assays, to estimate the degree of anticoagulation with apixaban and compare it with that of rivaroxaban in ...
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      Thromboelastometry for diagnosis of neonatal sepsis-associated coagulopathy: an observational study 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios; Sokou, Rozeta; Giallouros, George; Konstantinidi, Aikaterini; Pantavou, Katerina; Bonovas, Stefanos; Lytras, Theodore; Kyriakou, Elias; Lambadaridis, Ioannis; Gounaris, Antonis; Douramani, Panagiota; Valsami, Serena; Kapsimali, Violetta; Iacovidou, Nicoletta; Tsantes, Argirios E. (2018)
      Our aim was to evaluate the potential role of standard extrinsically activated thromboelastometry (EXTEM) assay in the early detection of neonatal sepsis. We studied 91 hospitalized neonates categorized in two groups: group ...