Loutradis Dimitris
The female genital malformations, that are frequent but not always detected, constitute a genuine barrier in fertilization and at the same time a cause of verbal confusion in medical understanding. Up until now, the systems that have been proposed for their classification are the American Fertility Society (AFS), the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (AFS, 1988) and the Vagina, Cervix, …
Anastasios Pandraklakis, Nikolaos Thomakos, Ioannis Thanopoulos, Dimitrios Vlachos, Maria D. Oikonomou, Dimitrios Chaidopoulos, Alexandros Rodolakis
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common malignancy in the female population and was the ninth cause of deaths in the female population in 2016. According to the American Cancer Society, 13240 new cases of cervical cancer will be diagnosed in the USA in the year 2018, while 4170 women will die from the disease. Unfortunately,40% of them concern women younger than 45 years old in their reproductive age…
Anastasios Makedos, Grigoris Grimbizis
Congenital malformations of the female genital tract affect 4-7% of the female population. They are mainly detected at reproductive age during the investigation for infertility. Accurate classification is vital for the effective management. In need of a more detailed description of these anomalies, clinical usefulness and simplicity ESHRE and ESGE introduced in 2013 the new classification system and further in 2016…
Panagakis G., Theofanakis H, Pappa K, Loutradis D.
Despite significant advances regarding screening and treatment of cervical dysplasia, cervical cancer in fertile age is becoming more and more common in the last two decades. Cervical cancer screening ideally detects preinvasive lesions that can be eradicated or early stage cervical cancer that can be successfully treated. Cervical cancer screening was previously limited to cervical cytology. However, during the past decade…
Lambros Mpoltsis, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Theodoros Xanthos, Nicoletta Iacovidou, Athanasios Chalkias, Evangelia Kouskouni, Demetrios Valsamidis
Background. The 2015 European Resuscitation Council (ERC) Guidelines for Resuscitation and support of transition of babies at birth stress the importance of adequate preparation by the healthcare professionals who are going to receive the newborn immediately after birth in order to avoid preventable neonate deterioration. Midwives and pediatricians are the healthcare professionals in the frontline of neonate reception…
Loutradis Dimitris
Semen infection contributes approximately to 10-30% of infertility cases in young couples. The infection harms sperm production, motility and function, while the shady nature of the process,makesits detection difficult resulting frequentlyinasymptomaticand extremely contagious infection of the sexual partner. Symptoms and signs like discomfort, recurrent pregnancy loss, amniotic fluid infection …
Karakalpakis D, Kostaras K, Asonitis K, Dimitriadi D, Pittaras T, Charvalos E, Daikos G, Mantzourani M, Pappa K
Aim: To investigate the prevalence of common aerobic gram positive and gram negative bacteria, Mycoplasma hominis, Ureaplasma urealyticum and Chlamydia trachomatis in symptomatic and asymptomatic Greek patients and to determine antibiotic resistance profiles. Methods: This retrospective study included a total of 316 adult men examined at the Assisted Reproduction Department …
Ahmed El Gohari
Objective: to determine the long term risk of hysterectomy following balloon endometrial ablation. Design: retrospective cohort study. Setting: A teaching university NHS hospital(Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital. Methods: Patients having balloon endometrial ablation were prospectively recorded in an operating room log-book between 2001 to 2016. This logbook was used to search the pathology laboratory …
Kalmantis K, Petsa A, Daskalakis G, Alexopoulos E, Korovesi E, Antsaklis P, Karagkiouzis T
Introduction: Neurofibromatosis type-1 (NF-1) is one of the most common genetic diseases following an autosomal dominant inheritance pattern. Maternal and fetal complications have been reported. Purpose: To present a very interesting and rare case report regarding neurofibromatosis – 1 (NF-1) in pregnancy and to create a complete review concerning this genetic disease …
Ioannidis C
Desmoid tumors (or fibromatosis) of the breast are very rare findings. Their clinical and imaging features can easily mislead diagnosis, the lesions being diagnosed as breast cancer. The case of a 46-year old female patient, who presented a desmoid tumor in the area of a previously excised accessory breast, is reported. A review of the international literature revealed no other similar case. The differential diagnosis …