Publications by authors named "Sofia Mavrogeni"
Article Synopsis
- Parkinson's disease (PD) is serious and costly to treat, and recent advancements in machine learning (ML) can predict cardiovascular and stroke risks in PD patients, but challenges arise due to COVID-19's impact on these models.
- The study explores the hypothesis that COVID-19 exacerbates heart and brain damage in PD patients and proposes a deep learning (DL) model that factors in COVID-19 lung damage, alongside various medical data, for better risk stratification.
- Validation of the DL model demonstrated its effectiveness in stratifying cardiovascular/stroke risk in PD patients during the pandemic, while also addressing potential biases in artificial intelligence applications for early detection of these risks.
A 30-year-old man with a history of an in-situ melanoma of the forehead was referred for cardiac evaluation because of tachycardia and elevated levels of serum troponin. The transthoracic echocardiogram revealed multiple masses attached to the walls of both ventricles and the right atrium (RA). A large mass was occupying almost one third of the right ventricle (RV), resulting in reduction of the end-diastolic RV volume and tachycardia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The goal of this study was to assess the independent and collective diagnostic value of various modalities in cardiac sarcoidosis, delineate the role of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), and identify patients at risk.
Background: Cardiac sarcoidosis is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. CMR is a key modality in the evaluation of patients with cardiac symptoms, but the complementary role of CMR to conventional tests for the diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis is not fully defined.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of gender differences on triglyceride (TG) response after a fatty meal in clinically defined heterozygous (h) patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). Nineteen hFH men were age-matched with an equal number of premenopausal women. Plasma TG was measured before and 2, 4, 6, and 8 hr after a standardized fat load.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Previous experimental studies have provided evidence showing that changes in thyroid hormone signaling correspond to alterations in myocardial function in animal models of heart failure. The present study further explores whether thyroid hormone alterations are correlated with the functional status of the myocardium in patients with heart failure.
Methods: In this study, 37 patients with mean ejection fraction (EF%) of 26.
Background: The warm-up phenomenon has been considered to trigger preconditioning. We investigated whether repeated exercise treadmill tests in humans are capable of inducing adaptation to ischemia by triggering both the early and late phase of preconditioning.
Methods: In 25 consecutive patients with stable coronary artery disease, four repeated treadmill tests were performed.