Kehinde S. Okunade, Adaiah Soibi-Harry, Tonia Onyeka, John B. Ogunyemi, Olufemi Thomas-Ogodo, Adebola A. Adejimi, Austin C. Okoro, Benedetto Osunwusi, Sunusi R. Garba, Rose I. Anorlu
Background: The timing of recurrence of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) after a standard primary treatment is an important indicator of the degree of response of the tumour to treatment. It, however, remains unclear if the timing of recurrence will predict survival …
Sofoklis Stavros, George Kalabalikis, Despoina Mavrogianni, Dimitrios Loutradis, Peter Drakakis, Isabella Spyropoulou
In this study, we aimed at delineating the possible effect of estradiol (E2) levels on the day of β-hCG administration on the ovary by analysingthe Embryo Score (ES) of early day 2, 44hrs post insemination. Oocyte donor ovarian stimulation protocols were thus used in order to avoid any possible counteractions of E2 with the endometrium. All oocytes were …
Ioannis Tsakiridis, Apostolos Mamopoulos, Ioannis Kalogiannidis, Apostolos Athanasiadis, Themistoklis Dagklis
Introduction: Migrant pregnant women may require antenatal hospitalization due to complications of pregnancy. The aim of this study was to investigate the indications for admission, the baseline and the obstetric characteristics of migrant women hospitalized in a high-risk pregnancy unit (HRPU) and compare them …
Vasilis Theodoulidis, Anastasia Prodromidou, Kyveli Aggelou, Anastasia Mortaki, Konstantina Trimmi, Nikolaos Thomakos
The COVID-19 outbreak increased significantly the burden of hospital based services in an international setting. Facilities dealing with cancer cases had to cope with the burden of the disease and with the waiting lists that continuously grow as cancer patients tend to refer with increasing rates in referral centers. Surgical departments …
Theodore Liakakos, Katerina Papakonstantinou, Michail Panagiotopoulos, Dimitrios Papageorgiou
Complex adnexal cystic masses in women of reproductive age should be carefully evaluated before the final diagnosis is set. Adnexal cystic masses are not necessary malignant. On the contrary, they usually refer to a benign and not cancerous pathology. A certain benign pathology behind adnexal masses is endometriosis. Endometriosis occurs …
Loutradis Dimitris
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) appear in approximately 10% of pregnant women. These women have higher cardiovascular morbidity and mortality later in life in compared to parous normotensive controls. Several studies have demonstrated that women with preeclampsia present in a state of segmental impaired myocardial function …
Vasilios Pergialiotis, Nikolaos Thomakos, Nikol-Natalia Armata, Efthimia Eirini Gkotsi, Andreas Konstantinos Gousias, Ioanna Kaisari, Marianna Marra, Alexandros Rodolakis, Dimitrios Haidopoulos
Introduction: Endometrial carcinosarcoma is an aggressive form of cancer that has been classified in type II endometrial carcinomas. However, survival outcomes seem to differ considerably compared to grade 3 endometrioid adenocarcinoma, the predominant form of cancer in this group of patients. The purpose of the present systematic review is to investigate overall and progression free survival in patients with endometrial carcinosarcoma to those of patients with grade 3 endometrioid adenocarcinoma …
Eleftherios Zachariou, Ioannis Bellos, Konstantina Papadatou, Kalliopi Rodolaki, Nikolaos Thomakos, Dimitrios Haidopoulos, Alexandros Rodolakis, Vasilios Pergialiotis
Purpose: Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma of the cervix (RMS) is a rare malignancy and occurs mainly in the first two decades of life. Botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma is a subtype of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma and is an aggressive malignancy that arises from embryonal rhabdomyoblasts. It is often found in the genital tract of infants and young children …
Konstantina Papadatou, Eleftherios Zachariou, Vasilios Pergialiotis, George Daskalakis
Nowadays, infertility affects approximately 8-12% of the population. Μultiple causative factors are leading to the failure of subfertile couples to achieve a normal pregnancy, as well as various types of assisted reproductive techniques that have developed globally in order to confront infertility. Over the past few years, especially after the birth of the world’s first baby to be conceived by In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) …
Aloy Okechukwu Ugwu, Kehinde S Okunade, Ayodeji Ayotunde Oluwole, Sarah Ajibola John Olabode, Nneoma Kwemtochukwu Ani-Ugwu, Christian Chigozie Makwe, Emmanuel V Onyebuchi Ugwu, Sunusi-Rimi Garba
Background: Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific multi-systemic progressive disorder that is unique to human pregnancy occurring in the second half of pregnancy. Reliable biochemical markers for prediction, diagnosis and management of preeclampsia would have a great impact on maternal health and several of these markers have been suggested …