Ιατρική Σχολή / Medical School: Recent submissions
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Milder form of heat-related symptoms and thermal sensation: a study in a Mediterranean climate
(2016)Mild heat-related health effects and their potential association with meteorological and personal parameters in relation to subjective and objective thermal sensation were investigated. Micrometeorological measurements and ...
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Alcohol and psychoactive drugs increased the pre-hospital mortality in 655 fall-related fatalities in Greece: A call for management protocols
(2012)Introduction: The frequency of alcohol and psychoactive drugs in fall-related fatalities and their effect on type, severity of injury and location of death constitute the subjects of this study. Methods: A retrospective ...
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HIV epidemiology in Greece
(2008)Greece has experienced early the effect of HIV/AIDS on morbidity and mortality. The era of highly active antiretroviral therapy has alleviated many of the consequences of the epidemic, however, HIV infection remains an ...
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Successful Treatment of a Severe Case of Fournier's Gangrene Complicating a Perianal Abscess
(Hindawi Limited, 2011)A 67-year-old male patient with diabetes mellitus and nephritic syndrome under cortisone treatment was admitted to our hospital with fever and severe perianal pain. Upon physical examination, a perianal abscess was identified. ...
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National income inequality and declining GDP growth rates are associated with increases in HIV diagnoses among people who inject drugs in Europe: A panel data analysis
(2015)Background: There is sparse evidence that demonstrates the association between macro-environmental processes and drug-related HIV epidemics. The present study explores the relationship between economic, socio-economic, ...
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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 ...
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Enhanced HIV-1 surveillance using molecular epidemiology to study and monitor HIV-1 outbreaks among intravenous drug users (IDUs) in Athens and Bucharest
(2015)Background: A significant increase in HIV-1 diagnoses was reported among Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) in the Athens (17-fold) and Bucharest (9-fold) metropolitan areas starting 2011. Methods: Molecular analyses were conducted ...
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Tropisetron in the prevention of acute nausea and vomiting in patients treated with high dose epirubicin
(1998)Tropisetron is a novel selective antagonist of the type-3 serotonin (5- HT3) receptor, with proven efficacy in the control of emesis related to cancer treatment. Epirubicin in doses of >100 mg/m2 has a high emetogenic ...
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Particulate matter concentrations during desert dust outbreaks and daily mortality in Nicosia, Cyprus
(2013)Ambient particulate matter (PM) has been shown to have short- and long-term effects on cardiorespiratory mortality and morbidity. Most of the risk is associated with fine PM (PM 2.5); however, recent evidence suggests that ...
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Cytokine gene polymorphisms in multiple sclerosis: A meta-analysis of 45 studies including 7379 cases and 8131 controls
(2011)Many environmental and genetic factors have been implicated in the development of multiple sclerosis. However, the aetiology has not been clarified yet. Therefore, using a meta-analytic approach, we tried to probe the ...
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A network intervention that locates and intervenes with recently HIV-infected persons: The Transmission Reduction Intervention Project (TRIP)
(2016)Early treatment, soon after infection, reduces HIV transmissions and benefits patients. The Transmission Reduction Intervention Project (TRIP) evaluated a network intervention to detect individuals recently infected (in ...
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Prognostic factors in aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphomas
(1998)Aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is a biologically heterogeneous disease that can be cured with aggressive chemotherapy treatment. Different clinical, biological, cellular and molecular features have been identified ...
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Data on solar sunburning ultraviolet (UVB) radiation at an urban Mediterranean climate
(2017)This article describes data on the intensity of ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation collected during field questionnaire-based surveys in Athens, Greece. The surveys were conducted over 11 days of July and October 2010 at three ...
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The Impact of Peri-operative Anti-TNF Treatment on Anastomosis-Related Complications in Crohn's Disease Patients. A Critical Review
(2014)Introduction: Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)a is a cytokine exerting pleiotropic effects on critical cell functions and, most importantly, is the main regulator of pro-inflammatory cytokine production and a key player in the ...
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Diffuse large cell lymphomas: Identification of prognostic factors and validation of the international non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Prognostic Index
(1998)Several clinical prognostic factors have been identified that predict treatment outcome in patients with diffuse large cell lymphomas. An International Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Prognostic Index (IPI) has been recently ...
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The association between plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) levels, PAI-1 4G/5G polymorphism, and myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomization meta-analysis
(2014)Background: The circulating levels of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) are increased in individuals carrying the 4G allele at position -675 of the PAI-1 gene. In turn, overexpression of PAI-1 has been found ...