Publications by authors named "I Tsakiri"
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- Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is a leftover from fetal circulation that affects about 25% of people but usually doesn’t cause symptoms.
- PFO can be significant in conditions like cryptogenic stroke and migraines, and recent trials show that closing it through a procedure may be better than just medication for preventing strokes in specific patients.
- The effectiveness of closure for other issues related to PFO, like decompression sickness and migraines, is still being studied, and the review will cover the current understanding of these aspects.
The ascitic fluid ferritin concentrations were compared with serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG), in their diagnostic ability for detection of malignancy in 60 patients with ascites: 29 with chronic liver disease alone (CLD) and 31 patients with various neoplasms. Of the patients with malignancy, 12 had liver metastases, 9 had no evidence of liver involvement, and 10 had hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with or without coexisting liver cirrhosis. Analysis of our data confirms that the ascitic ferritin is a more accurate indicator of malignant ascites (MA) than the SAAG.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe serum protective activity against acid precipitation of poly (U) and a-fetoprotein levels were compared in 39 cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and in 33 patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) alone, in order to differentiate malignant and nonmalignant chronic liver disease. All but one (97.4%) patients with HCC were found to have serum protective activity levels of greater than or equal to 21 micrograms/ml, whereas all but one (97%) patients with CLD had serum protective activity levels of less than or equal to 20 micrograms/ml.
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