Complementary role of CMR to conventional screening in the diagnosis and prognosis of cardiac sarcoidosis

V Kouranos, GE Tzelepis, A Rapti, S Mavrogeni… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2017 - jacc.org
Objectives : The goal of this study was to assess the independent and collective diagnostic
value of various modalities in cardiac sarcoidosis, delineate the role of cardiac magnetic …

Thyroid hormone is a critical determinant of myocardial performance in patients with heart failure: potential therapeutic implications

…, G Athanassopoulos, S Mavrogeni… - European Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Objective Previous experimental studies have provided evidence showing that changes in
thyroid hormone signaling correspond to alterations in myocardial function in animal models …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning paradigm for cardiovascular disease/stroke risk stratification in Parkinson's disease affected by COVID-19: a narrative review

…, M Turk, A Johri, NN Khanna, K Viskovic, S Mavrogeni… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background and Motivation: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most serious, non-curable,
and expensive to treat. Recently, machine learning (ML) has shown to be able to predict …

Repeated exercise stress testing identifies early and late preconditioning

IA Paraskevaidis, EK Iliodromitis, S Mavrogeni… - International journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
Background: The warm-up phenomenon has been considered to trigger preconditioning. We
investigated whether repeated exercise treadmill tests in humans are capable of inducing …

Gender influence on postprandial lipemia in heterozygotes for familial hypercholesterolemia

…, DS Damaskos, C Mihas, S Mavrogeni… - Annals of Clinical & …, 2007 - Assoc Clin Scientists
The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of gender differences on triglyceride (TG)
response after a fatty meal in clinically defined heterozygous (h) patients with familial …

Multichamber involvement of metastatic cardiac melanoma

MS Bonou, P Diamantopoulos, S Mavrogeni… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
A 30-year-old man with a history of an in-situ melanoma of the forehead was referred for
cardiac evaluation because of tachycardia and elevated levels of serum troponin. The …

Comment on: Beneficial effects of nintedanib on cardiomyopathy in patients with systemic sclerosis: a pilot study

PP Sfikakis, S Panopoulos, S Mavrogeni - Rheumatology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
DEAR EDITOR, We read with interest the pilot study by Ninagawa et al.[1] about the beneficial
effect of nintedanib on myocardial extracellular volume (ECV) in 10 SSc patients, using …

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with unusual features in a Greek woman

A Kranidis, G Filippatos, S MAVROGENI… - Japanese heart …, 1994 - jstage.jst.go.jp
We present a Mediterranean female patient with abnormal electrocardiographic findings
and a history of shortness of breath during excessive effort (NYHA I) in whom apical …

Study of myocardial viability using gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging

S Mavrogeni, D Cokkinos, D Cokkinos - Hellenic J Cardiol, 2005 - scholar.archive.org
There are many imaging methods for the detection of myocardial necrosis. According to the
recent literature1 gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the …

Diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis: A crossectional study in 327 consecutive patients

…, G Tzelepis, A Rapti, S Mavrogeni… - European …, 2014 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Background: Detection of cardiac involvement in patients with sarcoidosis has major clinical
significance due to its poor prognosis. We assessed consecutive sarcoidosis patients with …