Cardiorenal multimorbidity in hospitalized cardiology patients: The Hellenic Cardiorenal Morbidity Snapshot (HECMOS) study.

Purpose: Cardiovascular disease is commonly accompanied by renal dysfunction. Multimorbidity in hospitalized patients impacts unfavorably on prognosis and hospital stay. We aimed to illustrate the contemporary burden of cardiorenal morbidity across inpatient cardiology care in Greece.

Clinical characteristics and management of patients with diabetes mellitus and stable coronary artery disease in daily clinical practice. The SCAD-DM Registry.

Background: Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and coronary artery disease (CAD) represent a high-risk population, where comorbidities are common and the progression of coronary heart disease is relatively rapid and extensive. The present survey, conducted nationwide in a Eurozone country, Greece, with a properly organized national health system, aimed to record specific data from a significant number of patients with diabetes and documented stable CAD (SCAD).

Methods And Results: We conducted our survey across the country, in private and public primary, secondary, and tertiary care centers.

Ventricular septal rupture presented with chronic heart failure symptoms: a case report.

Background: Ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is a rare mechanical complication following acute myocardial infarction, with very high mortality rate. Haemodynamic deterioration and cardiogenic shock is common in such cases. Rarely, however, patients may show only signs of chronic heart failure or be completely asymptomatic.

Correlation and stability of heart rate and ventricular ectopy variability in patients with congestive heart failure.

The stability of indexes of heart rate variability and their possible association with spontaneous variability of ventricular ectopy was examined in 13 patients with advanced congestive heart failure over 14 consecutive days of 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiographic recording. It was found that time and frequency domain measures of heart rate variability are stable over time and are inversely correlated with spontaneous variability of ventricular ectopy.

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis: case report.

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis is a rare disorder. A case of a male patient presenting with loss of pain and temperature sensation, lack of sweat, and mild mental retardation is described. Differential diagnosis with similar pathological conditions is presented.

[Oral habits. Etiology and treatment].

Oral habits have been described by psychologists and psychyatrists as psychodynamic phenomena. Dentists are concerned with oral habits because of the detrimental consequences they have in the oral facial system. The dentist who is in a position to confront a child with an oral habit in order to treat his dentinofacial problems is required to be aware of the psychological background of his patient as well as of the conditions under which the children do the habit in order to overcome emotional difficulties.

[Hemophilic patients. Treatment protocol in the dental office].

Hemophilia is an inherited hemorrhagic disease which is due to the insufficiency of Factor VIII, or Factor IX, or Factor XI. Hemophilia patients are regarded as special patients with increased dental problems. The present paper consists of two parts.