Publications by authors named "I Kotsikoris"
Background: Periodontal disease (PD) is a chronic inflammatory oral condition with potentially important systemic sequelae. We sought to determine whether the presence of PD in patients with severe carotid disease was associated with morphological features consistent with carotid plaque instability.
Methods: A total of 52 dentate patients hospitalized for carotid endarterectomy (CEA) had standardized assessments of their periodontal status, including measurements of probing pocket depth (PPD), clinical attachment level (CAL) and bleeding on probing (BoP).
Background: We sought to investigate the incidence and location of new cerebral ischemic lesions after carotid endarterectomy (CEA) using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI).
Methods: Sixty-six consecutive patients (50 males with a mean [±SD] age of 69 ± 9 years) who underwent CEA were included in this prospective study. Seventeen patients were symptomatic and 49 patients were asymptomatic.
Aim: Management of pseudoaneurysms in intravenous drug users poses many questions regarding need for revascularization and type of surgery. The aim of this study was to report on the frequency and management of femoral artery pseudoaneurysms in our department during the last twelve years.
Methods: Retrospective report on patients hospitalized in the Department of Vascular Surgery in Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece between January 1999 and May 2010 with femoral artery pseudoaneurysms due to intravenous drug abuse.
This study reports on the frequency and management of aortocaval fistulas (ACFs) in our department between 1998 and 2009. Overall frequency of ACFs among ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms was 5.5%.
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