One-Year Outcomes in Anticoagulated Atrial Fibrillation Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the Greek Antiplatelet Atrial Fibrillation Registry.

GReek-AntiPlatElet Atrial Fibrillation registry is a multicenter, observational, noninterventional study of atrial fibrillation patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Primary endpoint included clinically significant bleeding rate at 12 months between different antithrombotic regimens prescribed at discharge; secondary endpoints included major adverse cardiovascular events and net adverse clinical events. A total of 647 patients were analyzed.

Five-Years Outcome Analysis of 142 Consecutive Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Treated with Doxorubicin Eluting Microspheres 30-60 μm: Results from a Single-Centre Prospective Phase II Trial.

Purpose: To assess prospectively long-term results of doxorubicin-loaded HepaSphere 30-60 μm in consecutive patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) not amenable to curative treatments.

Patients And Methods: Single-center study from June 2011 to December 2015 in 151 patients treated with 75 mg of doxorubicin per HepaSphere vial. Baseline: Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer BCLC A/B was 49.

Body composition in asymptomatic HIV-infected men: cross-sectional and prospective assessment.

Data on body composition changes in HIV infected patients is sparse and controversial. The aim of this study was to assess body composition in asymptomatic HIV-infected men with normal body weight in comparison to healthy HIV-negative control men and to investigate possible body composition changes in HIV-positive patients over a 2-year observation period. One hundred eight asymptomatic seropositive men, aged 19-62 years, and 20 healthy sex, age and weight - matched controls were recruited for the cross-sectional part of the study.

Arterial compliance changes in diabetic normotensive patients after angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition therapy.

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is known to cause increased arterial wall stiffness and increased cardiovascular risk, even in the absence of hypertension. This study was designed to investigate whether use of an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor may improve arterial stiffness in normotensive diabetics, using pulse wave velocity (PWV) as a surrogate marker.

Methods: We studied 42 patients (26 with type 2 DM, aged 56.

The use of betamethasone and hyaluronidase injections in the treatment of Peyronie's disease.

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of local injections of betamethasone, hyaluronidase and lidocaine in patients with Peyronie's disease.

Material And Methods: A total of 112 men who had a palpable plaque at the penis and suffered from painful erection and bending of penis was treated with a total of 12 injections containing betamethasone, hyaluronidase and lidocaine. Patients were classified into groups according to the duration of the disease (<6 months, 6-12 months or >12 months) as well as the size of the plaque (<10 mm, 10-20 mm or >20 mm).

Pressor hormone profile during stress in hypertension: does vasopressin interfere with left ventricular hypertrophy?

Neurohormonal factors may account for the fact that patients with similar severity and duration of hypertension develop different degrees of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). The purpose of this work was to compare the pressor hormone profiles of hypertensive subjects off medication during exercise testing. Nineteen patients, stratified according to echocardiographically diagnosed absence (Group I n = 6) or presence (Group II n = 13) of LVH, underwent testing on the treadmill according to the Bruce protocol.

A case of gonadoblastoma in a normal woman with tubal pregnancy.

Gonadoblastoma is a rare tumor arising usually in a dysgenetic gonad. The commonest karyotypes seen in patients with this neoplasm are 46XY and 46XY/45XO mosaicism. The occurrence of gonadoblastoma in pregnant or normal (46XX karyotype) women is extremely rare.