Assessment of first-line eradication treatment in Greece: data from the European Registry on management (Hp-EuReg).

Background: ( is the most common chronic bacterial infection. Its management has to rely on local effectiveness, given the geographical variability of bacterial antibiotic resistance. We evaluated treatment effectiveness in naïve patients in Greece, as part of the European Registry on the management of (Hp-EuReg).

Cardiac amyloidosis: in search of the ideal diagnostic tool.

Background: Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is due to amyloid deposition in the myocardium. Transthyretin (ATTR) and light-chain (AL) amyloidosis are the main types of CA. Here, we present the clinical and imaging findings in patients with CA and discuss the controversies with the aim of finding the ideal diagnostic tool.

Stromelysin-3 protein expression in invasive breast cancer: relation to proliferation, cell survival and patients' outcome.

Matrix metalloproteinases constitute one of the major extracellular matrix degrading enzymic families implicated in cancer development. Stromelysin-3 in particular, a member of the matrix metalloproteinases belonging to the stromelysins' subgroup, seems to be closely related to invasiveness and tumor progression. In this study, we proceeded to the evaluation of stromelysin-3 protein's expression in paraffin sections of 133 cases of invasive breast carcinomas and statistically estimated its relations with known clinicopathological prognostic parameters and patients' survival, proliferation markers Ki-67 and TopoIIalpha and the antiapoptotic protein bcl-2.

Blood pressure and other risk factors of cardiovascular disease in two communities with different socio-economic statuses: the Athens study.

Blood pressure and other risk factors of cardiovascular diseases were studied in two rural communities of 631 adults (greater than or equal to 18 years old) with different socio-economic statuses, populations A and B. Population A (n = 381) lived in a tourist village on an island, and population B (n = 250) in a remote mountain village. The socio-economic status of population A had improved considerably over the last decade but the physical environment, habits, culture and way of life had been disrupted.

Intellectual impairment in male alcoholics.

The factors associated with intellectual impairment in male alcoholics have been studied in a group of subjects without the confounding complications of chronic alcoholism. It has been shown that intellectual impairment is dependent on the degree of subject anxiety and is independent of any co-existing biochemical disturbance. An hypothesis is offered to explain this observation.