Grammatikakis J, Evaggelinakis N, Kassanos D
Acute viral hepatitis is the most common cause of jaundice in pregnancy. Chronic hepatitis B or D infections may be transmitted to the neonate. However, hepatitis B virus transmission is effectively prevented with perinatal hepatitis B vaccination and prophylaxis with hepatitis B immune globulin. Cholelithiasis occurs in 6% of pregnancies. Complications can be safely treated …
Karanikolopoulos P, Εvaggelinakis E, Kassanos D
Endometriosis is a disease that affects millions of women around the world, with significant impact on their quality of life. Modern therapeutic approaches mainly aim to relieving women from their symptoms-cronic pelvic pain and infertility-while its potential role as predisposing factor for several types of cancer, especially for ovarian cancer, is still under investigation …
Μakris N, Vomvolaki E, Αntsaklis A
Diagnostic hysteroscopy is an examination method of the endometrial cavity, used since the 19th century. The development of technology improved the instruments which are required. Hysteroscopy has been increasingly used as first line investigation for the diagnosis and the treatment of many diseases involving the uterine cavity. The purpose of this study was to report the hysteroscopic …
Pados G, Almaloglou K, Bontis J
Postoperative adhesions are a significant complication of all abdominal surgical procedures. Adhesions formation is a consequence of peritoneal trauma and may lead to infertility, bowel obstruction and chronic pelvic pain. The major strategies for adhesion prevention are focused to the optimization of surgical technique and the use of antiadhesive agents which fall into two main categories …
Kantartzi PD, Goulis DG, Papadimas I
Varicocele is a very common finding among infertile men and one of the most controversial issues in the field of Andrology. The aim of the present study was to analyze the epidemiological, clinical, hormonal findings and sperm parameters in men with varicocele and to evaluate the changes in sperm parameters after varicocelectomy. We accessed medical records of 925 men …
Mavroudi E, Mavroudi M, Vavilis D, Goulis D, Kazantzidou E, Bassagiannis H, Bontis IN
Gkekas A, Vitoratos N
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare cardiac disorder which develops in the last month of pregnancy or within 5 months after delivery, and is associated with a high rate of maternal mortality. Peripartum cardiomyopathy is recognized as a distinct entity, different from preexisting cardiomyopathy that is worsened during pregnancy. Its etiology is unknown, although several theories …