Elabela/toddler (ELA-32) is a recently identified endogenous apelin receptor ligand. ELA levels are known to rise in heart failure (HF) patients. However, the association between elevated ELA levels and prognosis in these patients remains unknown. We aimed to investigate whether ELA plasma levels are correlated with prognosis in heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

Head and neck surgery is considered high-risk for difficult intubation and accidental extubation. Laryngomicroscopy implies surgical manipulations at the level of the vocal cords. Also, this type of surgery demands a particular position for the patient during the whole surgical intervention. All of this makes accidental extubation even more possible.

The ever-increasing sport level makes every single detail of the athlete's cardiorespiratory profile count, and therefore, it is deemed crucial to clarify how the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction (ACLR) affects the energy economy of an athlete compared to the ACL-deficient and healthy subjects. The purpose of this review was to systematically analyze the studies investigating the correlation between the energy-oxygen cost in patients following ACLR in unreconstructed and intact ACLs.

Statin regimens are essential for managing lipids and preventing cardiovascular diseases, both in primary and secondary prevention, alongside lifestyle changes. There are, however, some side-effects associated with statin intake, such as an elevation of (CK) and myopathy.

Structural spine changes are the frequent musculoskeletal disorders occurring in the human body in the form of scoliosis, hypo- or hyper-kyphosis, hypo- or hyper-lordosis, or a combination of the above.

The long-term studies for femoral neck fractures (FNFs) in young patients treated with closed reduction and internal fixation (CRIF) are limited. This study aimed to evaluate the long-term outcomes of a group of young patients (<65 years) with FNFs treated with CRIF at our department during the last decade. We estimated treatment failure rates and identified risk factors for poor outcomes.

The kidney is the organ of the human body with the most common congenital anomalies in either development or vascular supply. Although the presence of a second feeding artery arising from a different level of the aorta is not uncommon, the occurrence of a feeding renal artery arising from the contralateral common iliac artery is an infrequent finding.

The prevalence of thyrotropin-secreting pituitary adenomas, most being macroadenomas, is one to two cases per million inhabitants. Their differential diagnosis may be challenging, especially for microadenomas.

Detecting liver dysfunction/failure in the intensive care unit poses a challenge as individuals afflicted with these conditions often appear symptom-free, thereby complicating early diagnoses and contributing to unfavorable patient outcomes. The objective of this endeavor was to improve the chances of early diagnosis of liver dysfunction/failure by creating a predictive model for the critical care setting. This model has been designed to produce an index that reflects the probability of severe liver dysfunction/failure for patients in intensive care units, utilizing machine learning techniques.

Background: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) assess how individuals perceive the disease and its impact on quality of life, representing an important complement to the metabolic evaluation in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). This study aimed to assess the PROMs and their association with metabolic control.

Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is common among hemodialysis (HD) patients. Endoscopic examination of the upper and lower GI tract often fails to identify hemorrhagic lesions in anemic HD patients. The study aims to evaluate lesions of the small bowel mucosa in HD vs non-HD patients with suspected small-bowel bleeding (SSBB) using capsule endoscopy (CE) after negative upper and lower GI endoscopies.

Trisomy 13 is a chromosomal defect with high prenatal and postnatal mortality that may reach 87 % during the first year of life. More than 90 % of cases of fetuses with trisomy 13 may be detected by first-trimester ultrasound based on severe fetal structural malformations together with increased nuchal translucency thickness.

This study aimed to identify the risk factors of recurrence following surgical excisional procedures for cervical intraepithelial lesions (CIN).

Lifestyle changes in Diabetes Mellitus (DM) positively affect blood glucose and all risk factors. This study aims to determine the effect of swimming and running exercises on oxidant-antioxidant and lipid profiles in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced type 1 diabetic and non-diabetic rats.

The classification of vascular anomalies includes terms of nomenclature that are not based on histogenesis resulting in confusion among health professionals of different specialties. Ongoing efforts to classify them properly have taken place. This literature review aimed to identify erroneous nomenclature of vascular anomalies and to investigate their continued use over the past four years after the last International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies (ISSVA) update.

Births from adolescent mothers account globally for 10 % of all births and 23 % of maternal morbidity and mortality. Adolescence is a period of rapid biological changes; therefore, teens have a risk of developing iron deficiency anemia. The present study aimed to determine the hematological profile and compare the distribution and the severity of anemia among pregnant adolescents (12-19 years old) over ten years in Northern Greece.