004 Ιατρική Σχολή / Medical School: Recent submissions

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      Axillary motor nerve conduction study: Description of technique and provision of normative data 

      Zis, Panagiotis; Hadjivassiliou, Marios; Rao, Dasappaiah Ganesh (2018)
      Background Axillary nerve lesions can commonly occur secondary to trauma or brachial plexopathy. Our aim was to describe our technique of axillary nerve motor conduction studies and provide the respective normal values. ...
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      S164. A novel technique of axillary nerve motor conduction study 

      Rao, Dasappaiah G.; Zis, Panagiotis; Kane, Nicholas (2018)
      Introduction Axillary nerve involvement can commonly occur as part of the brachial plexus lesion. In traumatic pathology, the decision to surgically repair the plexus is based on the amplitude of compound muscle action ...
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      Quality of Life in Patients with Gluten Neuropathy: A Case-Controlled Study 

      Zis, Panagiotis; Sarrigiannis, Ptolemaios Georgios; Rao, Dasappaiah Ganesh; Hadjivassiliou, Marios (2018)
      Background: Gluten neuropathy (GN) is defined as an otherwise idiopathic peripheral neuropathy in the presence of serological evidence of gluten sensitivity (positive native gliadin antibodies and/or transglutaminase or ...
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      Gluten Neuropathy: Prevalence of Pain and the Role of Gluten-Free Diet. (P2.091) 

      Zis, Panagiotis; Rao, Dasappaiah Ganesh; Sarrigiannis, Ptolemaios Georgios; Hadjivassiliou, Marios (2018)
      Objective: To establish the prevalence of pain in patients with gluten neuropathy (GN) and to describe any contributory factors.Background: Gluten neuropathy is the second commonest neurological manifestation of gluten ...
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      A Pharmacological Rationale to Reduce the Incidence of Opioid Induced Tolerance and Hyperalgesia: A Review 

      Varrassi, Giustino; Fusco, Mariella; Skaper, Stephen D.; Battelli, Daniele; Zis, Panagiotis; Coaccioli, Stefano; Pace, Maria Caterina; Paladini, Antonella (2018)
      Chronic pain is an important health and social problem. Misuse and abuse of opioids in chronic non-cancer pain management seem to be a huge problem, in some countries. This could probably affect the normal use of such ...
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      Nocebo in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy 

      Zis, Panagiotis; Hadjivassiliou, Marios; Sarrigiannis, Ptolemaios G.; Jenkins, Thomas M.; Mitsikostas, Dimos-Dimitrios (2018)
      INTRODUCTION: Nocebo is very prevalent among neurological disorders, resulting in low adherence and treatment outcome. We sought to examine the adverse events (AE) following placebo administration in placebo-controlled ...
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      Clinical aspects and biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome 

      Zis, Panagiotis; Strydom, Andre (2018)
      Alzheimer's disease (AD) may affect in excess of 90% of individuals with Down syndrome (DS) after age 60, due to duplication of the APP gene in trisomy of chromosome 21, with neuropathology that is comparable to Sporadic ...
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      Postinfectious Immune-Mediated Neurological Diseases 

      Hadjivassiliou, Marios; Zis, Panagiotis (Springer International Publishing, 2019)
      Infection may trigger immune-mediated neurological dysfunction. In some specific examples, the pathogenesis has been clearly delineated, with a detrimental effect of the immune response to infection. This chapter will cover ...
    • Book Chapter  

      Neurological manifestations of gluten sensitivity 

      Hadjivassiliou, Marios; Zis, Panagiotis (Springer International Publishing, 2019)
      This detailed, practical textbook focuses on immune mediated disorders of the nervous system with particular focus on systemic autoimmune disorders. Divided into three sections, the first discusses the neuroanatomical and ...
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      Placebos and Nocebos in Other Brain Disorders 

      Zis, Panagiotis; Mitsikostas, Dimos D. [0000-0002-4691-3388] (Springer International Publishing, 2019)
      The term placebo refers to any intervention with no therapeutic effect that is used as a control in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Placebo can produce a beneficial effect that cannot be attributed to the properties ...
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      Symptoms of peripheral neuropathy in Idiopathic Parkinson s Disease: prevalence and impact on quality of life 

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      Nocebo Responses in Brain Diseases: A Systematic Review of the Current Literature 

      Zis, Panagiotis; Mitsikostas, Dimos-Dimitrios (2018)
      Placebo is an intervention with no therapeutic effect that is used as a control in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Placebo effects and responses can produce a beneficial effect that cannot be attributed to the properties ...
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      Behavioral Therapy Approaches for the Management of Low Back Pain: An Up-To-Date Systematic Review 

      Vitoula, Kristallia; Venneri, Annalena; Varrassi, Giustino; Paladini, Antonella; Sykioti, Panagiota; Adewusi, Joy; Zis, Panagiotis (2018)
      Low back pain is one of the most common causes for seeking medical treatment and it is estimated that one in two people will experience low back pain at some point during their lifetimes. Management of low back pain includes ...
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      Movement Disorders Related to Gluten Sensitivity: A Systematic Review 

      Vinagre-Aragón, Ana; Zis, Panagiotis; Grunewald, Richard Adam; Hadjivassiliou, Marios (2018)
      Gluten related disorders (GRD) represent a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations that are triggered by the ingestion of gluten. Coeliac disease (CD) or gluten sensitive enteropathy is the most widely recognised, but ...
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      Gluten neuropathy: prevalence of neuropathic pain and the role of gluten-free diet 

      Zis, Panagiotis; Sarrigiannis, Ptolemaios Georgios; Rao, Dasappaiah Ganesh; Hadjivassiliou, Marios (2018)
      Peripheral neuropathy is a common extraintestinal manifestation of gluten sensitivity (gluten neuropathy). We aimed to establish the prevalence of neuropathic pain in patients with otherwise idiopathic PN and gluten ...
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      Sensory neuropathic symptoms in idiopathic Parkinson's disease: prevalence and impact on quality of life 

      Adewusi, Joy K.; Hadjivassiliou, Marios; Vinagre-Aragón, Ana; O'Connor, Karen Ruth; Khan, Aijaz; Grünewald, Richard Adam; Zis, Panagiotis (2018)
      BACKGROUND: Neuropathic symptoms are commonly reported in Parkinson's disease (PD), but robust data on the epidemiology of such symptoms are lacking. The present study sought to investigate the prevalence and determinants ...
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      Neuropathic Pain in Acute and Subacute Neuropathies: A Systematic Review 

      Artemiadis, Artemios; Zis, Panagiotis (2018)
      Background: Neuropathic pain (NP) is a common symptom caused by lesions or diseases of the somatosensory nervous system. Acute/subacute peripheral neuropathies (APN) are rare, however can be particularly painful. Objectives: ...
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      Peripheral neuropathic pain in idiopathic Parkinson's disease: Prevalence and impact on quality of life 

      Adewusi, Joy K.; Hadjivassiliou, Marios; Vinagre-Aragón, Ana; O'Connor, Karen Ruth; Khan, Aijaz; Grünewald, Richard Adam; Zis, Panagiotis (2018)
      BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Pain is a frequent and debilitating non-motor symptom of Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease (IPD). The present study investigated the prevalence of pain and specifically peripheral neuropathic pain (PNP) ...
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      Gluten sensitivity and epilepsy: a systematic review 

      Julian, Thomas; Hadjivassiliou, Marios; Zis, Panagiotis (2019)
      The aim of this systematic review was to establish the prevalence of epilepsy in patients with coeliac disease (CD) or gluten sensitivity (GS) and vice versa and to characterise the phenomenology of the epileptic syndromes ...
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      Increased Oxidative Stress as a Risk Factor in Chronic Idiopathic Axonal Polyneuropathy 

      Zis, Panagiotis; McHugh, Patrick C.; Manca, Maurizio; Sarrigiannis, Ptolemaios Georgios; Rao, Dasappaiah Ganesh; Hadjivassiliou, Marios (2018)
      Chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy (CIAP) is a disorder with insidious onset and slow progression, where no etiology is identified despite appropriate investigations. We aimed to investigate the role of oxidative ...