Publications by authors named "I Germanakis"
Background: Screening for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its associated risk factors in childhood facilitates early detection and timely preventive interventions. However, limited data are available regarding screening tools and their diagnostic yield when applied in unselected pediatric populations.
Aims: To evaluate the performance of a CVD screening program, based on history, 12-lead ECG and phonocardiography, applied in primary school children.
Article Synopsis
- The study focuses on pediatric cardiomyopathy in children under 18 in Crete, Greece, aiming to assess its epidemiology from 2002 to 2022.
- The annual incidence was found to be 1.59 cases per 100,000 children, with dilated cardiomyopathy being the most common type (50%).
- The research indicates a higher incidence of pediatric cardiomyopathy in Crete compared to other Caucasian populations, suggesting a need for further examination of genetic factors in this demographic.
Key Clinical Message: Anomalous origin of right pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta is a rare congenital malformation and it needs surgical management. Consequences of this condition affect lead to pulmonary hypertension and severe pulmonary vascular disease.
Abstract: Anomalous origin of right pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta is a rare congenital heart malformation that results in early infant mortality affecting the right pulmonary artery more than the left.
Paediatric cardiomyopathies form a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by structural and electrical abnormalities of the heart muscle, commonly due to a gene variant of the myocardial cell structure. Mostly inherited as a dominant or occasionally recessive trait, they might be part of a syndromic disorder of underlying metabolic or neuromuscular defects or combine early developing extracardiac abnormalities (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: We studied the incidence and time course of any coronary artery changes in children up to 2 years of age who were hospitalised with mild COVID-19.
Methods: This was a single-centre prospective study of 29 children (19 males) with a median age of 3 months and interquartile range (IQR) of 1.6-4.