Dimitris Loutradis
The ancient issue of pelvic organ prolapse appears to be the price of childbearing. The Egyptians had described “a woman whose belly and branching …
Dimitris Loutradis
The ancient issue of pelvic organ prolapse appears to be the price of childbearing. The Egyptians had described “a woman whose belly and branching …
Athanasios Douskos, Eleni Pitsouni, Themos Grigoriadis, Stavros Athanasiou
Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a common condition presenting in up to 50% of women depending on age, parity, body mass index, pelvic floor muscle strength and underlying diseases. The symptomatic POP usually presents at 3-10% of women, when the descent organ is at or beyond the level of hymen. Currently, guidelines for the best surgical treatment …
Angelos Daniilidis, Dimitrios Balaouras, Dimitrios Chitzios, Nikolaos Vrachnis, Christiana Zafeirati, Efstratios Asimakopoulos
Worldwide, attention over iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in pregnancy has been recently shifted towards supplementation during pregnancy and ensuring that women, especially adolescents have adequate iron stores prior to conception. Many researchers claim that adolescent or adult women still need supplements during pregnancy in order to avoid IDA, even if iron stores …
Georgios Androutsopoulos, Ioannis C. Kotsopoulos, Porfyrios Korompelis, Georgios Michail, Georgios Adonakis, Georgios Decavalas
Endometrial cancer represents a common malignancy of the female reproductive system and systematic surgical staging is the primary therapeutic approach, as offers many advantages in diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy remains an integral part of the primary surgical therapeutic approach of endometrial cancer and provides substantial …
Vasilios Pergialiotis, Anastasia Prodromidou, Alexandros Sotiriadis, Nikolaos Papantoniou
Background: To date, predictive markers of preeclampsia have not been established in the field of prenatal care. The Soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1/Platelet Growth Factor (sFlt-1/PlGF) ratio has been extensively studied in the literature and seems to be promising. However, consensus regarding its efficacy is lacking. Objective: The purpose of the present meta-analysis is to evaluate the …
Serafeim Pousias, Vasiliki Thanopoulou, Lazaros Pantelidis, Vasileios Koukloumperis, Dimitrios Koutsogiann
Heterotopic pregnancy is defined as the coexistence of intrauterine and ectopic pregnancy, each one of which might be single or multiple. The incidence is approximately 1: 30,000 pregnancies and most of the times the diagnosis is set after the occurrence of symptoms. In the following article is reported the case of a 33-year old patient presented at the emergency room, with acute …