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Big events in Greece and HIV infection among people who inject drugs
(2015)
Big Events are processes like macroeconomic transitions that have lowered social well-being in various settings in the past. Greece has been hit by the global crisis and experienced an HIV outbreak among people who inject ...
Local immune response after intravesical interferon gamma in superficial bladder cancer
(1998)
To investigate the lymphocyte subpopulations (T4, T8 and macrophages) and major histocompatibility (MHC) II antigens in patients with superficial bladder cancer before and after intravesicai instillations of recombinant ...
Second malignancies following treatment for Hodgkin's disease: A Greek experience
(1994)
The risk and the type of second malignancies (SM) developing in 217 treated Hodgkin's disease (HD) patients were studied. The median age of the patients was 35 years (range 14-83) and the M/F ratio 1.8. Treatment consisted ...
New technologies in predicting, preventing and controlling emerging infectious diseases
(2015)
Surveillance of emerging infectious diseases is vital for the early identification of public health threats. Emergence of novel infections is linked to human factors such as population density, travel and trade and ecological ...
Safety and efficacy of long-term statin treatment for cardiovascular events in patients with coronary heart disease and abnormal liver tests in the Greek Atorvastatin and Coronary Heart Disease Evaluation (GREACE) Study: a post-hoc analysis
(2010)
Long-term statin treatment reduces the frequency of cardiovascular events, but safety and efficacy in patients with abnormal liver tests is unclear. We assessed whether statin therapy is safe and effective for these patients ...
Evaluation of the limiting antigen avidity EIA (LAg) in people who inject drugs in Greece
(2017)
This analysis assessed the utility of the limiting antigen avidity assay (LAg). Samples of people who inject drugs (PWID) in Greece with documented duration of HIV-1 infection were tested by LAg. A LAg-normalized optical ...
Donor-derived breast cancer in a bone marrow transplantation recipient
(2009)
We present the case of a young lady who had been treated for acute myelocytic leukemia at the age of 14 by means of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, the donor being her sister. At the age of 28 she underwent modified ...
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors during pregnancy: a systematic review of an uncommon but treatable malignancy
(2015)
Although modern social structure and medical advances have led to the increasing number of women childbearing in older age, cancer remains a rare diagnosis during pregnancy. There is little given information throughout the ...
The complex pathogenesis of bacteremia: From antimicrobial clearance mechanisms to the genetic background of the host
(2014)
Bacteremia develops when bacteria manage to escape the host immune mechanisms or when the otherwise well-orchestrated immune response fails to control bacterial spread due to inherent or acquired immune defects that are ...
Angiogenesis in cancer of unknown primary: Clinicopathological study of CD34, VEGF and TSP-1
(2005)
Background: Cancer of unknown primary remains a mallignancy of elusive biology and grim prognosis that lacks effective therapeutic options. We investigated angiogenesis in cancer of unknown primary to expand our knowledge ...