Publications by authors named "Christos Syrgkanis"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the impact of short-term blood pressure variability (BPV) on mortality and cardiovascular events in haemodialysis patients, an area previously unexplored.
- It involved 227 patients monitored continuously for 44 hours, analyzing various BPV metrics like standard deviation and average real variability over about 30 months.
- Results showed that higher short-term BPV correlated with increased risks of all-cause death and cardiovascular issues, highlighting the importance of BPV monitoring in this patient population.
Ambulatory Pulse Wave Velocity Is a Stronger Predictor of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality Than Office and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Hemodialysis Patients.
Pantelis A Sarafidis Charalampos Loutradis Antonios Karpetas Georgios Tzanis Alexia Piperidou Christos Syrgkanis
Hypertension
July 2017
Arterial stiffness and augmentation of aortic blood pressure (BP) measured in office are known cardiovascular risk factors in hemodialysis patients. This study examines the prognostic significance of ambulatory brachial BP, central BP, pulse wave velocity (PWV), and heart rate-adjusted augmentation index [AIx(75)] in this population. A total of 170 hemodialysis patients underwent 48-hour ambulatory monitoring with Mobil-O-Graph-NG during a standard interdialytic interval and followed-up for 28.
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