Clinical characteristics and management of patients with diabetes mellitus and stable coronary artery disease in daily clinical practice. The SCAD-DM Registry.

Background: Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and coronary artery disease (CAD) represent a high-risk population, where comorbidities are common and the progression of coronary heart disease is relatively rapid and extensive. The present survey, conducted nationwide in a Eurozone country, Greece, with a properly organized national health system, aimed to record specific data from a significant number of patients with diabetes and documented stable CAD (SCAD).

Methods And Results: We conducted our survey across the country, in private and public primary, secondary, and tertiary care centers.

Two Rare Cases of Non-Syndromic Paramolars with Family Occurrence and a Review of Literature.

Supernumerary teeth (or hyperdontia) are teeth that exceed the normal number of deciduous or permanent teeth in the oral cavity. The occurrence of supernumerary teeth without any associated syndrome has been frequently reported and many case reports have been published. This article reports two rare cases of familial occurrence of multiple paramolars without the presence of any other syndrome for two consecutive generations.

A comparison of Child-Pugh, APACHE II and APACHE III scoring systems in predicting hospital mortality of patients with liver cirrhosis.

Background: The aim of this study was to assess the prognostic accuracy of Child-Pugh and APACHE II and III scoring systems in predicting short-term, hospital mortality of patients with liver cirrhosis.

Methods: 200 admissions of 147 cirrhotic patients (44% viral-associated liver cirrhosis, 33% alcoholic, 18.5% cryptogenic, 4.

Increased serum levels of YKL-40 in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Background And Aims: Initiation of a fibrotic process has been suggested as part of the intestinal response to chronic inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease. YKL-40 has been proposed as a new serum marker of fibrosis. We studied compared the serum levels of YKL-40 in patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease with inflammatory and healthy controls.

Balthazar computed tomography severity index is superior to Ranson criteria and APACHE II and III scoring systems in predicting acute pancreatitis outcome.

Background And Goals: Acute pancreatitis runs an unpredictable course. We prospectively analyzed the prognostic usefulness of four different scoring systems in separately assessing three variables; acute pancreatitis severity, development of organ failure and pancreatic necrosis.

Study: 78 patients with acute pancreatitis were studied prospectively.

Circulating soluble vascular adhesion protein 1 in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Objective: A dysregulated local immune defence with a constant influx of leucocytes provides a basis for continuous intestinal inflammation in ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Since vascular adhesion protein 1 (VAP-1) is one of the adhesion molecules that mediates lymphocyte binding to endothelium, we investigated the levels of soluble VAP-1 (sVAP-1) in the sera of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients compared with healthy controls.

Methods: sVAP-1 serum levels were measured in 161 IBD patients (90 ulcerative colitis, 71 Crohn's disease) and 93 controls using a commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).