Publications by authors named "G Sarris"
A simple and rapid qualitative chromatographic method with a unique extraction approach was developed and validated to screen oral fluid samples for 31 compounds in driving under the influence of drugs investigations. The scope and sensitivity of the method meets or exceeds Tier I recommendations established by the National Safety Council's Alcohol, Drugs and Impairment Division. Since this is a targeted chromatographic screen (rather than an immunoassay), cutoffs were set to match the confirmation levels in the recommendations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We evaluated outcomes of neonatal cardiac surgery at hospitals affiliated with the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA).
Methods: All patients ≤30 days of life undergoing a cardiac surgical procedure during a 10-year period between January 2013 and December 2022 were selected from the ECHSA Congenital Database. Reoperations during the same hospitalization, percutaneous procedures, and noncardiac surgical procedures were excluded.
Article Synopsis
- - The American Association for Thoracic Surgery assembled a committee of experts to create guidelines for managing symptomatic neonates and infants with Ebstein anomaly (EA), focusing on risk assessment and treatment strategies.
- - A quantitative review was conducted, identifying 71 relevant studies on neonates and infants with EA, leading to the creation of expert consensus statements through a voting process among medical professionals.
- - Key findings suggest certain high-risk features (like severe cardiomegaly and pulmonary valve atresia) in EA patients warrant urgent intervention, while more stable neonates can be monitored for potential recovery.
First report from the European registry for anomalous aortic origin of coronary artery (EURO-AAOCA).
Interdiscip Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
May 2024
Article Synopsis
- - The European AAOCA Registry (EURO-AAOCA) is a study evaluating how different European centers manage patients with Anomalous Aortic Origin of a Coronary Artery (AAOCA), a rare heart defect, from January 2019 to June 2023.
- - Out of 262 patients with a median age of 33 years, common symptoms included chest pain and syncope, with right-AAOCA being the most frequent type identified.
- - There is currently no standard approach for diagnosing and treating AAOCA in Europe, though surgery has proven safe; future studies aim to improve patient selection for revascularization versus conservative treatment.
A sustainable bioprocess to produce bacterial cellulose (BC) using waste streams from wine distilleries and the biodiesel industry: evaluation of BC for adsorption of phenolic compounds, dyes and metals.
Biotechnol Biofuels Bioprod
March 2024
Background: The main challenge for large-scale production of bacterial cellulose (BC) includes high production costs interlinked with raw materials, and low production rates. The valorization of renewable nutrient sources could improve the economic effectiveness of BC fermentation while their direct bioconversion into sustainable biopolymers addresses environmental pollution and/or resource depletion challenges. Herein a green bioprocess was developed to produce BC in high amounts with the rather unexplored bacterial strain Komagataeibacter rhaeticus, using waste streams such as wine distillery effluents (WDE) and biodiesel-derived glycerol.
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