Publications by authors named "K Oikonomou"
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) during the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates investigation into their clinical differentiation and outcomes. This study aimed to examine these differences among VOCs, considering multiple related factors. An observational cohort study was conducted on patients diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection via nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal swab who visited the emergency department of a public Greek hospital between October 2020 and July 2022 during different VOC circulation in the region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere is a growing consensus that brain development in Huntington's disease (HD) is abnormal, leading to the idea that HD is not only a neurodegenerative but also a neurodevelopmental disorder. Indeed, structural and functional abnormalities have been observed during brain development in both humans and animal models of HD. However, a concurrent study of cortical and striatal development in a genetic model of HD is still lacking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere is a growing consensus that brain development in Huntington's disease (HD) is abnormal, leading to the idea that HD is not only a neurodegenerative but also a neurodevelopmental disorder. Indeed, structural and functional abnormalities have been observed during brain development in both humans and animal models of HD. However, a concurrent study of cortical and striatal development in a genetic model of HD is still lacking.
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- A study examined trends in technology-assisted total hip arthroplasty (TA-THA) from 2015 to 2020, comparing it to conventional THA based on data from the ACS-NSQIP database.
- The analysis included over 219,000 conventional THA cases and about 2,258 TA-THA cases, revealing an increase in TA-THA usage until 2019, followed by a decline in 2020, and a yearly decrease in average hospital stay length until 2020.
- TA-THA procedures had longer operative times and higher transfusion rates, but no significant difference in complication rates compared to conventional THA, highlighting its growing use without major short-term benefits