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2 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece

Organizers:

INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL MEDICINE & HEPATOLOGY, LARISSA, GREECE

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE & RESEARCH LABORATORY OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY MEDICAL SCHOOL, LARISSA, GREECE

Director: Professor G.N. Dalekos

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE(BOARD MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL MEDICINE & HEPATOLOGY):President: G.N. Dalekos

Members: K. Krapis K.P. Makaritsis C. Mandros G. Ntaios

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE & FACULTY MEMBERS M. AkovaA. AlexopoulouQ. AnsteeI. BaskozosM. BlankS. BlotY. de BoerM. BurnierH.R. van BuurenL. ChristouG.L. DaikosG.N. DalekosG.D. DimitriadisG. DimopoulosΜ.Α. DimopoulosS. DourakisM. EkstedtΜ. ElisafJ. FerroA. FloreaniΝ.K. GatselisS. Georgiadou

L. GuillevinC. HadjichristodoulouS.J. HadziyannisΑ. HatzitoliosG. HirschfieldT. HofmannG.K. HovinghC. JaminJ. JordanΝ.L. KatsilambrosM. KohrmannJ. KoskinasV. KotsisC. Labropoulou-KaratzaR. LiberalG. LipJ.A. LopesΚ.P. MakaritsisΕ. MaltezosP.M. MannucciM.N. ManoussakisC. Marañón

H. MattleF. MenichettiD.L. MenucciN. MontanoP. MontraversV. MouchtouriH.Μ. MoutsopoulosP. NilssonG. NtaiosC.J. PackardR. PálssonN. PapanasG. PapatheodoridisD. PapazoglouA. ParesT.R. PedersenG. PetrikkosJ. PutaalaV. RatziuY. RenaudineauΕ.I. RigopoulouΚ. Ritis

M. SamsonD. SereniP.P. SfikakisK. SpengosA. StefosD. StrbianH. ToplakΕ.V. TsianosE.A. TsochatzisS. UnalP. ValensiΚ. VemmosD. VerganiP.G. VlachoyiannopoulosH. WedemeyerC. WeimarC. YurdaydinΚ. ZachouA. ZanchettiD. ZieglerM. RizzoD. Samonakis

ORGANIZATION

39th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece

In cooperation with:

HELLENIC ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE LIVER

HELLENIC STROKE ORGANIZATION

BOARD OF THE HELLENIC ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE LIVERPresident: G.N. DalekosVice President: G. PapatheodoridisGen. Secretary: E. CholongitasTreasurer: A. AlexopoulouMember: C. Triantos

Endorsed by:

EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE IN EUROPE

Under the auspices of:

MINISTRY OF HEALTH, GREECE

UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY MEDICAL SCHOOL, LARISSA, GREECE

ORGANIZATION


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09:00 - 10:30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS OP01-OP09 CARDIOVASCULAR AND METABOLIC DISEASES

Chairpersons: Konstantinos P. Makaritsis (Larissa, Greece) Vasileios Papavasileiou (Leeds, UK)

OP01 DEVELOPMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR IMPLANTS UTILIZING THE HUMAN UMBILICAL ARTERY

1,4Panagiotis Mallis, 1Efstathios Michalopoulos, 2Michalis Katsimpoulas, 3Daniele Dipresa, 3Sotiris Korossis,

4Aggeliki Papapanagiotou, 1Catherine Stavropoulos-Giokas 1Hellenic Cord Blood Bank (HCBB), Biomedical Research

Foundation Academy of Athens, Greece 2Center of Clinical, Experimental Surgery and Translational Research, Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece 3Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany 4School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

OP02 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VITAMIN D LEVELS AND DIFFERENT CARDIOVASCULAR RISK SCORES IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS

Ridvan Sivritepe, Sema Basat, Damla Ortaboz Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences

Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

OP03 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VITAMIN D LEVEL AND ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION IN MALE PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS

1Sema Basat, 1Rıdvan Sivritepe, 1Damla Ortaboz, 1Ecem Sevim Çalık, 2Eyüp Veli Küçük, 2Berkan Şimşek, 3Sabri Atay,

4Arzu Çalışgan 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences

Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Urology, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 3Kartal Uğur Mumcu Family Healty Center, Istanbul, Turkey 4Medstats Analysis and Consulting Company, Istanbul, Turkey


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OP04 NON-VITAMIN-K-ANTAGONIST ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS VERSUS WARFARIN IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND PREVIOUS STROKE OR TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK

1George Ntaios, 2Vasileios Papavasileiou, 3Hans-Chris Diener, 4Konstantinos P. Makaritsis, 4Patrik Michel

1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2Stroke Service, Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Medical School, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 3Department of Neurology and Stroke Center, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany 4Stroke Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

OP05 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN OSTEOARTHRITIS AND SARCOPENIA IN GERIATRIC PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS (T2DM)

1Sema Ucak, 1Rıdvan Sivritepe, 1Damla Ortaboz, 1Ecem Sevim Çalık, 2Sabri Atay, 3Arzu Çalışgan 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences

Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 2Kartal Uğur Mumcu Family Health Center, Istanbul, Turkey 3Medstats Consulting Limited Company, Istanbul, Turkey

OP06 AGE- AND SEX-SPECIFIC ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERISTICS AND OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS WITH EMBOLIC STROKE OF UNDETERMINED SOURCE

1George Ntaios, 2Gregory Y.H. Lip, 3Konstantinos Vemmos, 3Eleni Koroboki, 3Efstathios Manios, 3Anastasia Vemmou, 4Ana Rodríguez-Campello, 4Elisa Cuadrado-Godia, 4Jaume Roquer,

5Valentina Arnao, 5Valeria Caso, 5Maurizio Paciaroni, 6Exuperio Diez-Tejedor, 6Blanca Fuentes, 6Josefa Pérez Lucas,

7Antonio Arauz, 8Sebastian F. Ameriso, 8Lucía Pertierra, 8Maia Gómez-Schneider, 9Maximiliano A. Hawkes, 10Fabio Bandini,

11Beatriz Chavarria Cano, 11Ana Maria Iglesias Mohedano, 11Andrés García Pastor, 11Antonio Gil-Núñez, 12Jukka Putaala,

12,13Turgut Tatlisumak, 14Miguel A. Barboza, 1George Athanasakis, 15Fotios Gioulekas, 1Konstantinos Makaritsis, 1,16Vasileios Papavasileiou

1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2University of Birmingham Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK



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3Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Medical School of Athens, Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece 4Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital del Mar. Neurovascular Research Group, IMIM-Hospital del Mar (Institut Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 5Stroke Unit, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy 6Department of Neurology and Stroke Center, La Paz University Hospital - Autónoma University of Madrid, IdiPAZ Health Research Institute, Madrid, Spain 7Stroke Clinic. Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Mexico City, Mexico 8Department of Neurology, Institute for Neurological Research, FLENI, Buenos Aires, Argentina 9Department of Neurology, Division of Critical Care Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 10Department of Neurology, S. Paolo Hospital, Savona, Italy

11Vascular Neurology Section, Stroke Center, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, IiSGM Health Research Institute, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

12Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

13Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Neurology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

14Neurosciences Department, Hospital Dr. Rafael A. Calderón Guardia, CCSS. University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica

15Sub-directorate of Informatics, Larissa General University Hospital, Larissa, Greece

16Stroke Service, Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Medical School, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

OP07 GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MORTALITY AMONG STATIN USERS AGED 80 YEARS OR MORE

1,2Dan Justo, 3Mark Tchernichovsky, 1Anjelika Kremer, 4Shany Sherman, 4Marina Ioffe, 2,4Haim Mayan 1Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics D, Sheba Medical

Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel 2Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 3Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Department of Internal Medicine E, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel



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OP08 EVALUATION OF THE URIC ACID AS SUBCLINICAL MALNUTRITION INDICATOR

1Guven Koc, 1Sibel Ocak Serin, 2Hakan Kocoglu, 2Yildiz Okuturlar, 1Ridvan Sivritepe, 1Tulay Eyupgiller, 3Gulay Turan,

1Sema Ucak Basat 1Department of Internal Medicine, Umraniye Education and

Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Internal Medicine, Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 3Department of Internal Medicine, Private Safa Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

OP09 SCREENING FOR FABRY DISEASE IN TWO GREEK NEPHROLOGY DEPARTMENTS

1Christos Paliouras, 2Stamatia Kouzouka, 1Konstantinos Roufas, 1Giorgos Ntetskas, 1Fotini Lambrianou, 1Nikolaos Karvouniaris, 1Emmanouil Anastasakis

1Hematology Department of General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece 2Nephrology Department of General Hospital of Kos, Kos, Greece

10:30 - 11:00 STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE

Chairperson: Dimitrios Samonakis (Heraklion, Greece)

Importance of European registries on rare liver diseases: The paradigm of autoimmune hepatitis Rodrigo Liberal (London, UK)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00 ROUND TABLE Hypolipidemic treatment: What is new?

Chairperson: Moses Elisaf (Ioannina, Greece)

Should we treat everyone above 60 years with a statin? Chris J. Packard (Glasgow, UK)

Familial hypercholesterolemia diagnosis and treatment: Can we perform better? G. Kees Hovingh (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

PCSK9 inhibition: What is hot in 2017? Terje Rolf Pedersen (Oslo, Norway)



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13:00 - 14:00 SYMPOSIUM Intensive blood pressure control

Chairperson: Alberto Zanchetti (Milan, Italy)

Pros Michel Burnier (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Cons Alberto Zanchetti (Milan, Italy)

14:00 - 14:30 SATELLITE LECTURE

14:30 - 16:00 Leisure time

16:00 - 17:30 ROUND TABLE Stroke etiology and management

Hellenic Stroke Organization Chairpersons: Jose Ferro (Lisbon, Portugal) George Ntaios (Larissa, Greece)

Stroke in the young Jukka Putaala (Helsinki, Finland)

Drug-induced stroke Jose Ferro (Lisbon, Portugal)

Can we predict thrombolysis-associated symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage? Daniel Strbian (Helsinki, Finland)

Management of intracranial artery stenosis Christian Weimar (Essen, Germany)




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18:00 - 19:30 ROUND TABLE Heart and stroke

Hellenic Stroke Organization Chairpersons: Heinrich Mattle (Bern, Switzerland) Konstantinos Spengos (Athens, Greece)

Patent foramen ovale in cryptogenic stroke: Closure, antiplatelets or anticoagulants? Heinrich Mattle (Bern, Switzerland)

Optimal strategy for detection of atrial fibrillation in patients with cryptogenic stroke

Martin Kohrmann (Essen, Germany)

Acute treatment in patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with oral anticoagulants

George Ntaios (Larissa, Greece)

19:30 - 19:45 Break

19:45 - 21:00 OPENING CEREMONY

Welcome

Inaugural Lecture Improving health care by innovations and clinical research Daniel Sereni (Paris, France) President of the Foundation for the Development of Internal Medicine in

Europe (FDIME)

21:00 WELCOME RECEPTION


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08:30 - 10:00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS OP10-OP18 GASTROENTEROLOGY/HEPATOLOGY (A) Chairpersons: M. Deutsch (Athens, Greece) R. Liberal (London, UK)

OP10 INTERFERON-INDUCED PROTEIN-10 (IP10) AT ENTECAVIR (ETV) OR TENOFOVIR (TDF) DISCONTINUATION IN NON-CIRRHOTIC HBeAg-NEGATIVE CHRONIC HEPATITIS B (CHBe-) CANNOT PREDICT SUBSEQUENT RELAPSES. DARING-B: PROSPECTIVE GREEK STUDY

1Margarita Papatheodoridi, 2Emilia Hadziyannis, 3Eirini Rigopoulou, 3Kalliopi Zachou, 1Vasilis Xourafas, 3Aggeliki Lyberopoulou, 3Nikolaos K. Gatselis, 2Spilios Manolakopoulos, 3George N. Dalekos,

1George Papatheodoridis 1Department of Gastroenterology, Medical School of National and

Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece 22nd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

OP11 CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH WILSON’S DISEASE IN A SINGLE-CENTER IN GREECE: LAST 3 DECADES OF EXPERIENCE

Spyridon Savvanis, Maria Tampaki, Emmanouil Koullias, Melanie Deutsch, Emmanouil Manesis, John Koskinas Academic Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School of

Athens, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece

OP12 CHARACTERISTICS OF GREEK MALE PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY BILIARY CHOLANGITIS (PBC)

1Kalliopi Azariadi, 1Vasiliki Ligoyra, 1Kalliopi Zachou, 1Pinelopi Arvaniti, 1Asterios Saitis, 1Nikolaos K. Gatselis, 2George K. Koukoulis, 1George N. Dalekos 1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal

Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of

Thessaly, Larissa, Greece



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OP13 SEVERE ACUTE NON-A, NON-B, NON-C HEPATITIS WITH AUTOIMMUNE FEATURES: CONSIDER ACUTE HEPATITIS E VIRUS (HEV) INFECTION NOT JUST AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS (AIH)

1Kalliopi Azariadi, 1Pinelopi Arvaniti, 1Nikolaos K. Gatselis, 2George K. Koukoulis, 1George N. Dalekos, 1Kalliopi Zachou

1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

2Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

OP14 SERUM HUMAN BETA-DEFENSIN-1 IS AN ACCURATE PREDICTOR OF SHORT-TERM MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE-ON-CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE

1Danai Agiasotelli, 1Ilianna Mani, 1Larisa Vasilieva, 1Alexandra Alexopoulou, 1Emilia Hadziyannis, 2Dimitris Goukos,

2George L. Daikos, 1Spyros P. Dourakis 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General

Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 21st Department of Propedeutic Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

OP15 CHRONIC HEPATITIS C PATIENTS WITH GENOTYPE 5, TREATED WITH NEWER ANTIVIRAL DRUGS

Giorgos Ntetskas, Vasileios Papastergiou, Eystathia Anastasiou, Nikitas Katsilis, Anna Katsili, Maria Stampori,

Chrisostomos Pselas, Athanasios Hastas, Dimitra Kozikopoulou,

Stilianos Karatapanis 1st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes,

Rhodes, Greece

OP16 PATIENTS WITH HAEMOGLOBINOPATHIES AND CHRONIC HEPATITIS C: A REALLY DIFFICULT TO TREAT POPULATION IN 2016?

Kalliopi Zachou, Pinelopi Arvaniti, Nikolaos K. Gatselis, Kalliopi Azariadi, Georgia Papadamou, Eirini Rigopoulou, George N. Dalekos Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal

Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece



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OP17 THE ROLE OF THE NLRP3 INFLAMMASOME AND THE ACTIVATION OF IL-1β IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF CHRONIC VIRAL HEPATIC INFLAMMATION

1Adam Molyvdas, 2Urania Georgopoulou, 5Themistoklis Vassiliadis, 4Prodromos Hytiroglou, 1Anastasios E. Germenis,

3Georgios Germanidis, 1Matthaios Speletas 1Department of Immunology and Histocompatibility, University of

Thessaly, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Larissa, Greece 2Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece 3First Department of Internal Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece 4Department of Pathology, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece 5Third Department of Internal Medicine, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

OP18 THE CURRENT RECOMMENDED TREATMENT WITH 2ND GENERATION DAAS IN CHRONIC HEPATITIS C IN GREECE-TOLERATION AND VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE

1Andreas Kapatais, 2Solon Solomou, 3Dimitrios Karagiannakis, 1Evaggelia Ouranou, 2Ekaterini Kitna, 2Becator Latsis,

2Alexia Theofilou, 2Stefanos Tigas, 2Antonios Loutountzis, 4Theofani Karaoulani

1Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital Western Attiki -General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon”, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece 21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon”- General Hospital Western Attiki, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece 3Department of Gastroenterology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece 4Biopathology Medicine Department, General Hospital Western Attiki-General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon”, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece



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08:30 - 10:00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS OP19-OP27 GASTROENTEROLOGY/HEPATOLOGY (B) Chairpersons: Sotirios Georgopoulos (Athens, Greece) Evangelos. Cholongitas (Thessaloniki, Greece)

OP19 POSTINFANTILE GIANT CELL HEPATITIS (PIGCH): A RARE HISTOLOGICAL PRESENTATION OF AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS (AIH) LEADING TO FULMINANT LIVER FAILURE

1Pinelopi Arvaniti, 1Kalliopi Azariadi, 1Vasiliki Lygoura, 1Nikolaos Gatselis, 2George K. Koukoulis, 1George N. Dalekos,

1Kalliopi Zachou 1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal

Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Thessaly,

Larissa, Greece

OP20 LOW SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH DECOMPENSATED CIRRHOSIS AND GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT COLONIZATION BY MULTIDRUG RESISTANT BACTERIA

1Sophia Pouriki, 2Georgia Vrioni, 1Helen Sambatakou, 1Larisa Vasilieva, 1Iliana Mani, 1Alexandra Alexopoulou, 1Spyros P. Dourakis 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General

Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 2Department of Microbiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

OP21 SCREENING OF LIFE STYLE FACTORS IN SLOVAK LIVER OUTPATIENTS

1Maria Szantova, 2Lubomir Skladany, 3Martin Janicko, 4Marek Rac, 5Martin Zima, 2Zuzana Meszarosova, 1Zuzana Durkovicova,

1Viera Kupcova, 2Svetlana Adamcova Selcanova, 2Maria Belovicova 13rd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty of

Comenius University Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia 22nd Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of FD Roosevelt, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia 3Department of Internal Medicine of University PJ Safarik Kosice, Slovakia 4Department of Internal Medicine University Hospital KF, Nitra, Slovakia 52nd Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Nove Zamky, Slovakia



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OP22 CAUSATIVE DISTRIBUTION AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATA OF LIVER CIRRHOSIS

1Xanthi Koufomichali, 1Dimitrios Charitos, 1Christina Ellina, 1Athina Eleftheriadou, 1Christina Karampampa,

1Evangelos Michelakis, 2Ioannis Minardos, 3Christiana Kaliouli,

1Larisa Karasavidou, 1Christos Drakoulis 1Hepatology Outpatient Clinic, 2nd Department of Internal

Medicine, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 2Department of Radiology, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 3Immunology Department General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece

OP23 HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA (HCC) IN MULTITRANSFUSED PATIENTS WITH THALASSEMIA MAJOR (TM) IN GREECE: RISK FACTORS, CHARACTERISTICS AND THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES

1,2Dimitrios Kountouras, 2Antonis Kattamis, 4Alexandra Kouraklis, 5Evanggelos Klironomos, 6Ioannis Lafiatis, 7Fotini Petropoulou, 8Konstantinos Maragkos, 10Kallistheni Farmaki,

9Artemis Vasileiadi, 3John Koskinas 1Hepatology Department, Hygeia-Mitera Hospital, Athens, Greece

2A Academic Department of Paediatrics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 3B Academic Department of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 4Hematology Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece 5Transfusion Unit, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece 6Transfusion Unit, Vostanion Hospital of Lesvos, Mytilene, Greece 7Transfusion Unit, General State Hospital, Athens, Greece 8Transfusion Unit, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece 9Transfusion Unit, General Hospital of Hania, Hania, Greece 10Transfusion Unit, General Hospital of Korinth, Korinth, Greece

OP24 ILEO-COLONOSCOPY, CARDIO-RESPIRATORY DISEASES AND ADEQUATE SEDATION

1Nikolaos V. Chrysanthos, 2Niki Mpardatsou, 1Evagelia Anagnostopoulou, 2Popi Alexandraki 1Gastrointestinal Department, St. George General Hospital of

Chania, Chania, Greece 2Department of Anesthesiology, St. George General Hospital of Chania, Chania, Greece



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OP25 PERSISTENT INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION LEADS TO SURGICAL INTERVENTION IN CROHN’S PATIENTS: A NESTED CASE-CONTROL STUDY

1,2Polychronis Pavlidis, 2Alexandra Cockroft, 1Ingvar Bjarnason, 1,2Bu’Hussain Hayee

1Department of Gastroenterology, King’s College Hospital, London, UK 2King’s College London, UK

OP26 MEAN TROUGH LEVELS OF EVEROLIMUS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA RECURRENCE AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

1Theodora Oikonomou, 1Evangelos Cholongitas, 1Ioannis Goulis, 1Christina Tondikidi, 1Marianna Diavasti, 1Konstantina Vaitsi, 1Eugenia Voudouri, 2Ioannis Fouzas, 1Evangelos Akriviadis, 2Vasileios Papanikolaou

14th Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 2Department of Transplant Surgery, Hippokration General Hospital, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

OP27 EVALUATION OF POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS RICH FOODS INTAKE ON GENETICALLY SUSCEPTIBLE INDIVIDUALS: THE HELLENIC NAFLD STUDY

1Ioanna Panagiota Kalafati, 1Maria Dimitriou, 1Dimitra Borsa, 1Efstathia Zogkza-Frantzeskaki, 1Venetia Bazioti,

3John Vlachogiannakos, 2Konstantinos Revenas, 3Alexander Kokkinos, 3Spyridon D. Ladas, 1George V. Dedoussis 1Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science

and Education, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece 2Radiology Department, General Hospital of Athens “Laiko”, Athens, Greece 3First Department of Propaedeutic Medicine, General Hospital of Athens “Laiko”, Athens, Greece



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10:00 - 11:30 ROUND TABLE Obesity: From epidemiology to treatment

Chairpersons: Hermann Toplak (Graz, Austria) Peter Nilsson (Malmo, Sweden)

Epidemiology, definition and diagnosis of obesities Hermann Toplak (Graz, Austria)

Obesity, impaired glucose metabolism and vascular changes Peter Nilsson (Malmo, Sweden)

Mechanisms of obesity induced hypertension Vasilios Kotsis (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Novel drugs in the treatment of obesity Jens Jordan (Hannover, Germany)

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10:00 - 11:30 ROUND TABLE Advances in viral hepatitis management

Hellenic Association for the Study of the Liver Chairpersons: Stephanos J. Hadziyannis (Athens, Greece) John Koskinas (Athens, Greece)

Chronic hepatitis B: Discontinuation of oral antivirals Stephanos J. Hadziyannis (Athens, Greece)

Chronic hepatitis C: Challenges in special populations Heiner Wedemeyer (Hannover, Germany)

Chronic hepatitis delta: An update Cihan Yurdaydin (Ankara, Turkey)

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Hellenic Diabetes Association Chairpersons: Nikolaos Papanas (Alexandroupolis, Greece) George Dimitriadis (Athens, Greece)

Novel approaches to manage dyslipidaemia, NAFLD and CV risk in type 2 diabetes

Manfredi Rizzo (Palermo, Italy)

Silent myocardial ischaemia in diabetes: New developments Paul Valensi (Paris, France)

Diabetic neuropathy: New developments in early diagnosis and treatment

Dan Ziegler (Düsseldorf, Germany)

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Chairpersons: Loic Guillevin (Paris, France) Yves Renaudineau (Brest, France)

Treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis: Questions and concerns Loic Guillevin (Paris, France)

Biological-targeted treatments in giant cell arteritis and Takayasu arteritis Maxime Samson (Dijon, France)

Primary Sjögren’s syndrome: How to improve specific treatment? Yves Renaudineau (Brest, France)

Axial spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis: Emerging treatment strategies Menelaos N. Manoussakis (Athens, Greece)

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Chairperson: Serhat Unal (Ankara, Turkey)

Choosing antibiotics in difficult to treat staphylococcal infections Francesco Menichetti (Pisa, Italy)

Optimizing treatment strategies in S. aureus bacteremia Serhat Unal (Ankara, Turkey)

16:30 - 17:00 STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTUREHellenic Stroke Organization

Chairperson: Konstantinos Vemmos (Athens, Greece)

Clinical application of stroke genetics Martin Dichgans (Munich, Germany)

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18:15 - 19:45 ROUND TABLE Internal Medicine in the 21st century

European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM) Chairpersons: Pier Mannuccio Mannucci (Milan, Italy) George N. Dalekos (Larissa, Greece)

European Curriculum of Internal Medicine Runólfur Pálsson (Reykjavik, Iceland)

Choosing wisely: To be or not to be - that’s the question Nicola Montano (Milan, Italy)

The role of EFIM publications for trainees and specialists Pier Mannuccio Mannucci (Milan, Italy)


Chairperson: George Ntaios (Larissa, Greece)

Selecting the appropriate antithrombotic strategy in atrial fibrillation Gregory Lip (Birmingham, UK)

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OP28 THE INFLUENCE OF ILLNESS DURATION BEFORE DIAGNOSIS OVER THE CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN PATIENTS WITH BRUCELLOSIS

1Mile Bosilkovski, 2Dijana Siskova, 3Silvana Miskova, 4Marjan Zezoski 1Medical Faculty “Ss Cyril and Methodius” University, Skopje, FYROM

2Department for Infectious diseases, Medical Center Shtip, FYROM 3Department for Infectious diseases, Medical Center Veles, FYROM 4Department for Infectious diseases, Medical Center Prilep, FYROM

OP29 PREVALENCE OF HEMATOGENOUS TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS IN BLOOD DONORS POPULATION IN THE LAST 5 YEAR PERIOD

1Eymorfia Vamvaka, 2Dorothea Hatzidaki, 2Attalia Ferke, 1Eyangellos Aggelou, 3Giorgos Ntetskas, 3Vasileios Papastergiou, 3Eystathia Anastasiou, 3Stilianos Karatapanis

1Blood Transfusion Unit1, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece 2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece 31st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece

OP30 COULD COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS ISOLATION BE SIGNIFICANT POST FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL? A CLINICAL CASE OF LATE-ONSET VENTRICULITIS

1Sarah Thompson, 1Samantha Simpkins, 2Aggelos Stefos, 3Elizabeth Jane Minton, 1,4Vasileios Papavasileiou

1Stroke Services, Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK 2Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 3Infectious Diseases Service, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK 4School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK


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1Marwene Grira, 2Sophie Durieux-Paillard, 1Laurent Getaz, 3Jean-Paul Janssens 1Division of Primary Care Medicine, Department of Community

Medicine, Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 2Migrant health Program, Division of Primary Care Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 3Division of Pulmonary Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

OP32 PERITONEAL FLUID CULTURE EVALUATION IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL IN A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD

1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Apostolina Papadopoulou, 1Evaggelia Chrisostomou, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1George Katagis, 1Christos Briasoulis, 1Christos Mitsis, 1Christos Georgiou, 1Anastasia Pournou

1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece 3Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece

OP33 PREDICTORS OF LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS (LRTI) IN ELDERLY PATIENTS REQUIRING HOSPITALIZATION

Panagiota Voukelatou, Ioannis Vrettos, Athina Bitsikokou, Areti Ragkou, Vasilios Anastasopoulos, Andreas Kalliakmanis 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, General and Oncology

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OP34 PROLONGED FEBRILE ILLNESS (PFI) REVISITED: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE TERTIARY REFERRAL CENTER EXPERIENCE IN CENTRAL GREECE

Erietta Polychronopoulou, Pinelopi Arvaniti, Anna Samakidou, Leonidas Mavroidis, Konstantinos Makaritsis, George N. Dalekos, Kalliopi Zachou

Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

OP35 IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL FOODS FOR THE TROFOSTAZ Taganmyrat Hojageldiyev, Bahar Arashova, Yklym Bolmammedov Pharmacology Department, State Medical University of

Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

OP36 ALTERNATIVES ON ADMISSION TO A CHRONIC-MULTIMORBIDITY UNIT

1Raquel Rodil, 2Vincenzo Malafarina, 1Paula Mendoza, 1María Ruiz, 1Gregorio Tiberio 1Internal Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Navarra,

Spain 2Geriatric Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Navarra, Spain

OP37 EVALUATION OF MORTALITY CAUSES OF THE LAST 10 YEARS IN DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES UMRANIYE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL

1Sema Ucak, 1Rıdvan Sivritepe, 2Ayşe Nilüfer Özaydın, 1Damla Ortaboz, 1Ecem Sevim Çalık, 3Arzu Çalışgan 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences

Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Public Health, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey 3Medstats Consulting Limited Company, Istanbul, Turkey



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OP38 ASSOCIATION OF SERUM TUMOR MARKERS CEA AND CA 15-3 WITH OXIDATIVE STRESS AND BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) IN DIFFERENT SUBTYPES OF BREAST CANCER

1Eleftheria Daridou, 1Evgenia Lymperaki, 2Stylianos Kakoliris, 2Ioanna Balgouranidou, 2Theodora Gioka

1Medical Laboratory Science, Alexandrion Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 2General University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece

OP39 ESTIMATION OF OXIDATIVE STRESS BIOMARKERS IN PATIENTS WITH HEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES

1Ioannis Tsamesidis, 2Eugenia Lymperaki, 3Kali Makedou, 3Stavros Iliadis, 2Anna Pekou, 2Athanasios Tsagkadouras, 4Claudio Fozza 1University of Verona, Department of Medicine, Verona, Italy

2Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Medical Laboratory Science, Thessaloniki, Greece 3Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 4University of Sassari, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Sassari, Italy

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Chairpersons: Christos Hadjichristodoulou (Larissa, Greece) Ioannis Baskozos (Athens, Greece)

Global health and population movements Varvara Mouchtouri (Larissa, Greece)

The role of points of entry (ports, airports, ground, crossings) in global health security

Daniel Lins Menucci, WHO Headquarters (Lyon, France)

The impact of the International Health Regulations 2005 in global health security

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09:30 - 10:30 SYMPOSIUM Acute kidney injury after abdominal surgery

Chairperson: Runólfur Pálsson (Reykjavik, Iceland)

Definition, classification and diagnosis of acute kidney injury José António Lopes (Lisbon, Portugal)

Acute kidney injury after abdominal surgery: Risk factors and management Runólfur Pálsson (Reykjavik, Iceland)

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Chairperson: Panayiotis G. Vlachoyiannopoulos (Athens, Greece)

Autoimmune serology: The strategy, methodology and clinical governance Diego Vergani (London, UK)

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12:00 - 13:30 ROUND TABLE Autoimmune cholestatic liver diseases

Chairpersons: Gideon Hirschfield (Birmingham, UK) Henk R. van Buuren (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

Scientific and practical aspects of registries in primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) Henk R. van Buuren (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

PBC: Old and novel therapies Annarosa Floreani (Padova, Italy)

Variant syndromes: Classification and management Albert Pares (Barcelona, Spain)

Deranged cholestatic enzymes in a patient with inflammatory bowel disease: What to do? Gideon Hirschfield (Birmingham, UK)



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Chairperson: Nikolaos K. Gatselis (Larissa, Greece)

Disease specific IVIG to treat diverse autoimmune diseases Miri Blank (Tel Aviv, Israel)


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Chairperson: George Dimopoulos (Athens, Greece)

Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP): Could be realistic? Stijn Blot (Ghent, Belgium)

Reducing the antifungal drugs consumption in the ICU Philippe Montravers (Paris, France)

Fighting multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogens in the ICU Murat Akova (Ankara, Turkey)

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Chairpersons: Vlad Ratziu (Paris, France) Emmanuel A. Tsochatzis (London, UK)

Steatosis and metabolic risk factors: Who is at risk of liver disease progression

Mattias Ekstedt (Linköping, Sweden)

NAFLD genetics Quentin Anstee (Newcastle, UK)

Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in NAFLD Emmanuel Tsochatzis (London, UK)

Novel pharmacotherapy options for NASH Vlad Ratziu (Paris, France)



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The coagulopathy of chronic liver disease Pier Mannuccio Mannucci (Milan, Italy)

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18:00 - 19:00 SYMPOSIUM Lymphocyte disruptions in autoimmune diseases

Chairperson: Yves Renaudineau (Brest, France)

Diagnostic accuracy of lymphocyte subset profiling in autoimmune diseases Christophe Jamin (Brest, France)

Myeloid populations are altered in systemic autoimmune diseases Concepción Marañón (Granada, Spain)

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of drug-induced liver injury (DILI)

Chairperson: Annarosa Floreani (Padova, Italy)

Diagnostic evaluation of suspected DILI Ynto de Boer (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Management and outcome of DILI in patients with or without chronic liver disease

Alexandra Alexopoulou (Athens, Greece)

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Gastroenterology/Hepatology ePP001-ePP036

ePP001CAN TELBIVUDINE BE CONSIDERED HELPFUL IN TENOFOVIR ASSOCIATED BONE DISEASE?Maria Papavdi, Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Spilios Manolakopoulos,Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, Melanie Deutsch2nd Academic Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

ePP002ACUTE HEPATITIS E IN GREECE. AN EMERGING ISSUEAntonios Kyritsis, Maria Pirounaki, Aggeliki Meritsi, Evaggelia Koutli, Evaggelos Ionas, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Efi Skafida, Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, Spilios Manolakopoulos, Melani DeutschNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine Hippokrateion General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

ePP003HCV VIRAEMIA IN ANTI-HCV-NEGATIVE HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS: A MYTH?1Nikolaos Papadopoulos, 2Ioannis Griveas, 3Antonios Kalliaropoulos, 2Heleni Bagia, 4Melanie Deutsch11st Department of Internal Medicine, 417 Army Share Fund Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece2Nephrology Department, 417 Army Share Fund Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece3Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece42nd Department of Internal Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Hippokration Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

ePP004HEPATITIS B VIRUS (HBV) AND HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) DUAL INFECTION: INTERACTIONS AND TREATMENT OUTCOME1Nikolaos Papadopoulos, 2Dimitris Konstantinou, 2George Kontos, 2Maria Papavdi, 1Anna Pavlidi, 2Spilios Manolakopoulos, 2John Koskinas, 2Melanie Deutsch11st Department of Internal Medicine, 417 Army Share Fund Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece22nd Department of Internal Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Hippokration Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece


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ePP00525-HYDROXYVITAMIN D IS A PROGNOSTIC MARKER IN ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASEEleni Armeni, Gerasimos Kapellos, Petros - Ioannis Kritikos, Konstantinos Iskos, Maria Karbalioti, Christos Georgakopoulos, Ilias Fillas, Panagiotis Kouroupakis, Konstantinos Kalligeros, Evangelos Dimitrellos2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Sismanogleio General Hospital of Attica, Athens, Greece

ePP006PERIPORTAL LYMPADENOPATHY AS THE INITIAL PRESENTATION OF AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS - PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS OVERLAP SYNDROMEEleni Armeni, Gerasimos Kapellos, Konstantinos Iskos, Petros - Ioannis Kritikos, Maria Karbalioti, Christos Georgakopoulos, Panagiotis Kouroupakis, Nikolaos Karakousis, Konstantinos Kalligeros, Evangelos Dimitrellos2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Sismanogleio General Hospital of Attica, Athens, Greece

ePP007GLYCOGENIC HEPATOPATHY: AN UNUSUAL HEPATIC COMPLICATION OF DIABETES MELLITUS1Kalliopi Azariadi, 1Pinelopi Arvaniti, 1Maria Tsitsia, 1Kalliopi Zachou, 1Georgia Papadamou, 1Argirios Loukopoulos, 1Nikolaos K. Gatselis, 1Konstantinos P. Makaritsis, 2George K. Koukoulis, 1George N. Dalekos1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece2Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

ePP008NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANTIBODIES TO CORE+1 PROTEIN AND SPONTANEOUS CLEARANCE OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS1Theodora Mylopoulou, 3Katerina Kassela, 2Ioannis Karakasiliotis, 4Vasileios Papadopoulos, 2Penelope Mavromara, 1Konstantinos Mimidis11st Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece2Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece3Molecular Virology Laboratory, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece4“Enargeia Medicine ΜΕΠΕ”, Xanthi, Greece


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ePP009SERONEGATIVE AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS IN A CARDIOLOGICAL PATIENT: CASE REPORT1Antreas Ioannou, 2Ioannis Michaelides, 1Chrysostomos Zintilis, 1Eleni Papanicolaou1Internal Medicine Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus2Histopathology Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus

ePP010CHOLESTATIC JAUNDICE DUE TO IM USE OF ANABOLIC STEROIDSAikaterini Dimakopoulou, Giannis VasileiadisDepartment of Internal Medicine, G.Gennimatas Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP011UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING: FIVE-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY INA GREEK HOSPITAL1Eleftherios Stratigakos, 2Aimilia Pelekanou, 3Elina Drakou, 2Evangelos Michelakis, 4Panagiota Vasilopoulou, 5Evangelia Tzeravini, 6Spyridon Kottas, 7Panagiotis Prezerakos, 7Maria Tsironi, 7Panagiotis Andriopoulos1Department of Gastroenterology, “Metaxa” Oncologic Hospital of Piraeus, Greece22nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus, Greece31st Department of Internal Medicine, “G. Gennimatas” General Hospital of Athens, Greece42nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Kalamata, Greece5Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Sparti, Greece6Hellenic Labour Inspectorate, Greek Ministry of Labour, Social Insurance and Social Solidarity, Greece7Department of Nursing, Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Greece

ePP012SERUM FERRITIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH DECOMPENSATED CIRRHOSISTheodora Oikonomou, Ioannis Goulis, Apostolos Dougalis, Areti Karasmani, Petros Doumtsis, Theodora Tzoumari, Ioannis Doulgeris, Stamatia Mihailidou, Katerina Kolotsiou, Evangelos Cholongitas4th Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece


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ePP013SEVERE HEPATIC DYSFUNCTION AFTER BARIATRIC SURGERY IN A MIDDLE AGED WOMAN WITH MORBID OBESITY1Eleana Gkamprela, 1Apostolos Migas, 3Nikolaos Papadopoulos, 1Aggeliki Meritsi, 1Antonios Kiritsis, 2Evangelos Menenakos, 2Konstantinos G Toutouzas, 1Spilios Manolakopoulos, 1Melanie Deutsch1Second Department of Internal Medicine Hippocration General Hospital Athens, Athens, Greece2Department of Surgery Hippocration General Hospital Athens, Athens, Greece3First Department of Internal Medicine, 417 Army Share Fund Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

ePP014EFFICACY OF THE NEW DIRECT-ACTING ANTI-VIRAL AGENTS IN TREATING CHRONIC HEPATITIS CMaria Sarigianni, Ioanna Kotsamidi, Alexandros Kaprinis, Evaggelos Chatzopoulos, Eleni GigiHepatology Outpatient Clinic, 2nd Internal Medicine Department, Ippokrateio General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP015LIVER BIOPSY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF NON-HODKIN LYMPHOMA IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC HBV INFECTION1Maria Agrogianni, 1Aimilia Pelekanou, 1Anastasia Ioannidou, 1Christina Karambamba, 1Maria Palatianou, 1Larisa Karasavidou, 3Pinelopi Korkolopoulou, 2Evangelia Kalagiakou, 1Panagiotis Zorbas, 1Christos Drakoulis12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece2Department of Hematology, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece31st Department of Pathophysiology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece


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ePP016HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA ACCORDING TO THE PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED IN GENERAL HOSPITAL OF WEST ATTICA1Andreas Kapatais, 2Solon Solomou, 3Dimitrios Karagiannakis, 1Evaggelia Ouranou, 2Ekaterini Kitna, 2Becator Latsis, 2Alexia Theofilou, 2Stefanos Tigas, 4Theofani Karaoulani1Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital Western Attiki - General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon”, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon” - General Hospital Western Attiki, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece3Department of Gastroenterology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece4Biopathology Medicine Department, General Hospital Western Attiki - General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon”, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece

ePP017TOXIC HEPATITIS AFTER INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN USE: A CASE REPORT OF MYASTHENIA GRAVIS1Fatma Kurt, 1Hanife Şerife Aktas, 1Umran Keskin, 2Ayse Rana Platin, 1Ridvan Sivritepe, 1Suheda Cakmak1Health Sciences University Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital Internal Medicine Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey2Health Sciences University Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital Family Medicine Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey

ePP018RED CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH IN CIRRHOSIS - COMMON ANALYSIS OR USEFUL TOOL?1Elena Mihaela Topala, 1Victor Stefan Ionescu, 1,2Roxana Siliste, 1,2Corina Simona Homentcovschi1Faculty of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania2Internal Medicine Department, Coltea Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania

ePP019COLORECTAL CANCER IN PATIENTS WITH CROHN’S DISEASE1Gloria Perez-Vazquez, 2Esther Rubio-Martin, 3Luis Garcia-Aragon, 3Juan Antonio Jimenez-Casas, 1Jose Luis Bianchi-LLave1Internal Medicine, La Linea- SAS Hospital, Spain2Nephrology, La Linea- SAS Hospital, Spain3Primary Care, Gibraltar Health Field Area, Spain


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ePP020COMPLICATED ACUTE PANCREATITIS IN SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY1Sibel Ocak Serin, 2Gulsah Karaoren, 3Zeynep Sule Cakar, 4Hakan Demirdag, 5Hakan Cakit1Department of Internal Medicine, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey2Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey3Department of Infectious Diseases, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey4Department of Gastroenterology, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey5Department of General Surgery, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey

ePP021LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING IN A ADULT PATIENT CAUSED BY MECKEL’S DIVERTICULUM1Aimilia Pelekanou, 2Anastasia Ioannidou, 3Maria Agrogianni, 4Christina Karampampa, 5Konstantinos Giannakas, 6Athanasia Farmaki, 7Vasilios Nikolaou, 8Lidia Iordanidou, 9Panagiotis Zormpas, 10Chistos Drakoulis12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece2Radiology Department, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece3Department of Nuclear Medicine, Specific Oncologic Hospital of Piraeus “Metaxa”, Athens, Greece

ePP022CASE REPORT: ACUTE PANCREATITIS IN A YOUNG PATIENT WITH POLYSPLENIA AND SHORT PANCREAS SYNDROME1Melina Kavousanaki, 1Asimina Koulouridi, 1Kalliopi Papadospyridaki, 1Sevasti Maragou, 1Stamatis Karakonstantis, 2Emmanuel Foukarakis, 3Viktoria Stylianaki, 1Evangelos Thalassinos, 1Haralampos Lydakis1Internal Medicine, Department B, Venizeleio General Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece2Cardiology Department, Venizeleio General Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece3Radiology Department, Venizeleio General Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece


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ePP023TBC ENTERITIS MIMICKING CROHN’S DISEASE IN A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN. A CASE REPORT1Ioannis Familias, 2Giorgos Ntetskas, 2Vasileios Papastergiou, 2Eystathia Anastasiou, 2Nikitas Katsilis, 2Kontstantinos Roufas, 2Maria Stampori, 1Savvas Kalathenos, 2Dimitra Kozikopoulou, 2Stilianos Karatapanis1Gastroenterology Department, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece

ePP024AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF ACUTE LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING: LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA METASTASIS TO THE DESCENDING COLON1Paraskevas Gkolfakis, 1Georgios Tziatzios, 1Ioannis S. Papanikolaou, 1Konstantinos Grammatikos, 2Ioannis G. Panayiotides, 2Zoi Tsakiraki, 3Irina Zinovieva, 1George D. Dimitriadis, 1Konstantinos Triantafyllou1Hepatogastroenterology Unit, Second Department of Internal Medicine - Propaedeutic, Research Institute and Diabetes Center, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, ‘‘Attikon” University General Hospital, Athens, Greece22nd Department of Pathology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, Greece3Department of Pathology, Thriassion General Hospital of Eleusis, Greece

ePP025AN UNEXPECTED SHORTCUT: CASE REPORT OF A GASTROCOLIC FISTULA (GCF) POST-TOTAL PANCREATECTOMY1Georgios Kechagias, 1Eirini Zacharopoulou, 2Elias Skopelitis, 1Dimitrios Moschovis, 2Evgenia Papadopoulos, 3Antigoni Karakosta, 4Kabi Eid-Papastefanou, 1Vasileios Vamvakousis, 1Evaggelos Andrikopoulos, 1Maria Tzouvala1Gastrenterology Department, General Hospital of Nikea and Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece22nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Nikea and Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece3Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Nikea and Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece4Department of Radiology, General Hospital of Nikea and Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece


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ePP026PERIPARTUM MASSIVE UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING IN ADVANCED AGED IVF PREGNANCIES1Hakan Demirdag, 2Sibel Ocak Serin, 3Gulsah Karaoren, 4Sabri Atay1Department of Gastroenterology, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey2Department of Internal Medicine, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey3Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey4Family Practitioner, Kartal Ugur Mumcu Family Health Center, Istanbul, Turkey

ePP027MINI CASE SERIES: SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF GASTRIC DIEULAFOY LESIONS WITH ENDOSCOPIC BAND LIGATION (EBL)1Georgios Kechagias, 1Dimitrios Moschovis, 1Eirini Zacharopoulou, 1Vasilios Vamvakousis, 2Theodoros Peppas, 1Chrysoula Veimou, 1Maria Tzouvala1Gastroenterology Department, General Hospital of Nikaia Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece2Third Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Nikaia Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece

ePP028DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF SPYGLASS™ DS SYSTEM IN THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF INFLAMMATORY vsNEOPLASTIC BILIARY STENOSIS: A SINGLE-CENTER RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF 14 PATIENTSIoannis D. Dimas, Maria Fragaki, Afroditi Bitouli, Angeliki Theodoropoulou, Emmanouil Vardas, Gregorios A. PaspatisDepartment of Gastroenterology, Venizeleion General Hospital, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

ePP029A RARE RECTAL TUMOR IN A 46YEAR OLD WOMANMaria Stafylidoy, Asterios Gkagkalis, Elena Vasiliadou, Christos Liatzakis, Maria Gavra, Athanasios Kalambakas, Glykeria Tzatzagou1st Department of Internal Medicine Papageorgiou General Hospital

ePP030AN ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT FOR ANGΙODΥSPLASIAS1Paula Mendoza Roy, 1Raquel Rodil Fraile, 2Vincenzo Malafarina, 1Nerea Andres, 1Gregorio Tiberio, 1Amaia Redondo1Internal Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Spain2Geriatrics, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Spain


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ePP031AN INTERESTING CASE OF A PATIENT WITH CELIAC DISEASE AND ABDOMINAL PAINHaris Constantinou, Kostas Kaouranis, Sophia Chistodoulou, Anthoula Kizi, Ioanna Nikolaidou, Georgos Olympios, Andreas Stylianou Department of Internal Medicine, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus

ePP032OLMESARTAN-ASSOCIATED ENTEROPATHY: A CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW1Stamatis Karakonstantis, 1Emmanouil Tzagarakis, 1,2Harry Lydakis1Internal Medicine B, Venizeleio General Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece2Head of Emergency Department, Venizeleio General Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece

ePP033HBV RECURRENCE IN TWO PATIENTS WITHOUT ANTI-HBc AND SOLELY ANTI-HBs, FOLLOWING THERAPY FOR HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE. SUCCESSFUL THERAPY WITH ENTECAVIRGiorgos Ntetskas, Vasileios Papastergiou, Emmanouil Spanou, Eystathia Anastasiou, Nikitas Katsilis, Maria Paraskeya, Despoina Papanikola, Konstantinos Roufas, Chrisostomos Pselas, Stilianos Karatapanis1st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece

ePP034APPROACH OF HEPATITIS C CHOLESTATIC FORM - TARGET AND IMPLICATIONS OF BILE ACIDS TREATMENT1Marinela Bezna, 2Maria Cristina Bezna, 1Camelia Pitis, 1Sorin Bezna, 1Cristina Deliu1Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Craiova, Romania2Cardiology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Craiova, Romania

ePP035ACUTE HEPATITIS BY ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING-ENZYME INHIBITORS (ACEI): A CASE REPORTJosé Luis Puerto-Alonso, Enrique Sánchez-Relinque, Gloria Pérez-Vázquez, Pedro Díaz de Souza, Eduardo Rojas Marín, José Manuel Gil-GascónInternal Medicine Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain

ePP036IS CALCIUM AND ITS REGULATORS RELATED TO AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS? A CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATUREPanagiotis Dimitriou, Elena Xenofontos, Emmelia Vounou Hepatology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital of Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus


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Nephrology ePP037-ePP050

ePP037FEATURES OF NEPHROTIC SYNDROME IN ELDERLY PATIENTS - OUR EXPERIENCESvetlana Antic, Violeta RabrenovicClinic of Nephrology, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia

ePP038CORRELATION BETWEEN TRADITIONAL PARAMETERS LUPUS NEPHRITIS ACTIVITY WITH URINARY BIOMARKER - LIPOCALIN 2Violeta Rabrenovic, Svetlana AnticClinic of Nephrology, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia

ePP039IMPACT OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON RIGHT VENTRICULAR PERFORMANCE AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURVIVAL IN DIALYSIS PATIENTS1Merita Rroji, 2Majlinda Cafka, 1Saimir Seferi, 1Nereida Spahia, 1Erjola Likaj, 1Alma Idrizi, 1Myftar Barbullushi1University Hospital Center “ Mother Teresa”, Service of Nephrology, Tirana, Albania2University Hospital Center” Mother Teresa”, Service of Cardiology, Tirana, Albania

ePP040FAVORABLE EFFECT OF COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY, ON LINE HEMODIAFILTRATION (HDF) AND PLASMAPHERESIS ON THE CLINICAL COURSE OF A PATIENT WITH DIALYSIS-DEPENDENT MYELOMA1Christos Palouras, 1Giorgos Ntetskas, 1Fotini Lambrianou, 1Konstantinos Roufas, 1Nikolaos Karvouniaris, 2Emmanouil Spanou, 1Emmanouil Anastasakis1Nephrology Department of General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece2Hematology Department of General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece

ePP041IMPACT OF CONVENTIONAL HIGH VOLUME POST-DILUTION ON LINE HEMODIAFILTRATION (cpostD-OLHDF) ON ANAEMIA OF HEMODIALYSISEleni Intzevidou, Petros Spyropoulos, Despoina Papadopoulou, Cristina Chatziaslanidou, Nikolaos ZoumparidisPrivate Renal Unit ‘’Protypo Nephrologiko Center Of Pella’’, Skydra, Greece

ePP042MALIGNANCIES IN ESRDZoi Tegou, Konstantina Goula, Ourania DrakoulongonaNephrology Department, St Andrews General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece


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ePP043REGRESSION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS AFTER CONVERSION TO EXTENDED THRICE-WEEKLY NOCTURNAL IN-CENTER HIGH VOLUME POST DILUTION ON LINE HEMODIAFILTRATION (npostD-OLHDF)Nikolaos Zoumparidis, Eleni Intzevidou, Antonios Makridis, Petros Spyropoulos, Despoina Papadopoulou, Christina ChatziaslanidouRenal Unit “Protypo Nephrologiko Center Of Pella”, Skydra, Greece

ePP044COEXISTENCE OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AND SPOROTRICHOSIS IN A CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE PATIENTOurania Drakoulogkona, Konstantina Goula, Zoi TegouNephrology Department, St Andrews General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece

ePP045IMPACT OF KETOANALOGUES ON OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE1Anita Krrashi, 2Alma Idrizi, 3Elsa Kone, 2Myftar Barbullushi, 2Nereida Spahia, 2Denada Haxhiu, 2Olta Qurku, 4Margaria Gjata1Service of Internal Medicine, Hospital Center of Durres, Albania2Service of Nephrology, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania3Department of Histology, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania4Service of Internal Medicine, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania

ePP046WHAT’S NEW IN PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF PREECLAMPSIA1Enton Kaçulini, 2Alma Idrizi, 1Marsida Duli, 2Alketa Koroshi, 3Alma Shehu, 2Nereida Spahia, 2Myftar Barbullushi, 4Margarita Gjata1Faculty of Medical Sciences, Albanian University, Tirana, Albania2Service of Nephrology, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania3Medical Representative, Novartis Pharma, Tirana, Albania4Service of Internal Medicine, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania

ePP047SUCCESSFUL PREGNANCY AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANT: THE FIRST CASE IN ALBANIA1Alma Idrizi, 2Mirela Rista, 2Ilir Tasho, 3Enton Kaçulini, 1Nereida Spahia, 1Denada Haxhiu, 1Olta Qurku, 1Alketa Koroshi, 1Myftar Barbullushi, 4Margarita Gjata1Service of Nephrology, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania2Service of Obstetric-Gynecology, Hospital Koco Gliozheni, Tirana, Albania3Faculty of Medical Sciences, Albanian University, Tirana, Albania4Service of Internal Medicine, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania


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ePP048CORRELATION BETWEEN WAISTLINE PERIMETER AND CLASSIC HEMATOLOGICAL FACTORS, TO PATIENTS WITH OR WITHOUT DIABETES AND CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE FINAL STAGE1Maria Mylonopoulou, 2David Symeonidis, 2Alkistis Kalesis, 2Panagiotis Xatziastros, 2Ioannis Protopsaltis, 2Stavros Antonopoulos1M.X.A Nephrolife, Glyfada, Athens, Greece2B Pathology Department, Tzaneio Pireaus Hospital, Pireaus, Greece

ePP049THE RETURN OF MILK ALKALI SYNDROME: A CURRENT CLINICAL ENTITYIrini Katsarou, Antonis Vithoulkas, Antonia Avgoustinou, Anna LikouresiGeneral Hospital Zakynthos, Zakynthos, Greece

ePP050CARNITINE PALMITOYL TRANSFERASE II DEFICIENCY IN AN ADULT PRESENTING WITH RHABDOMYOLYSIS AND ACUTE RENAL FAILURE1Rıdvan Sivritepe, 1Sema Uçak Basat, 1Kevser Kutlu Tatar, 2Murat Tugcu1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey2Department of Nephrology, Haydarpaşa Numune Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Hematology/Oncology ePP051-ePP074

ePP051MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA WITH EXTENSIVE RETROPERITONEAL LOCALIZATIONMaria Chrisanthakopoulou, Konstantina Iliopoulou, Panagiotis Vrekos, Vasilis Gogolas, Nikos Loulias, Zoi Alexiou2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Thriasio General Hospital of Elefsis, Athens, Greece

ePP052HEMOSIDEROSIS AND CIRRHOSIS IN A PATIENT WITH SICKLE CELL-BETA THALASSEMIA: AN UNUSUAL CASE1Christos Demosthenous, 1Georgios Rizos, 1Maria Gavra, 2EfthimiaVlahaki, 1GlykeriaTzatzagou1A’ Department of Internal Medicine, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece2Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece


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ePP053SPLENIC MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA IN A PATIENT WITH LIVER INFILTRATION AND IMMUNOLOGICAL PHENOMENA: CASE REPORT1Antreas Ioannou, 2Constantinos Chadjileontis, 3Marios Antoniades, 1Eleni Papanicolaou1Internal Medicine Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus2Histopathology Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus3Hematology Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus

ePP054POLYCYTHEMIA, ANGIOEDEMA AND DERMATOMYOSITIS AS PRESENTING SYMPTOMS IN A CASE OF OCCULT DE NOVO NEUROENDOCRINE PROSTATE CANCER1Ioannis Botis, 2Stella Arelaki, 3Stavros Giannopoulos, 4Ioannis Chrysafis, 1Akif Chousko Mechmet, 1Vasiliki Dalla, 1Charalampos Papagoras, 2Alexandra Giatromanolaki, 1Panagiotis Skendros1First Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece2Department of Pathology, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece3Department of Urology, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece4Department of Radiology, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece

ePP055LOW-GRADE SINONASAL SARCOMA WITH NEURAL AND MYOGENIC FEATURES (LGSSNMF) IN A FEMALE PATIENT WHO PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED TERIPARATIDE: CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGES1Aikaterini Drylli, 2Eleni Paschou, 3Vasiliki Mamakou, 4Antonia Papazoglou, 1Nikolaos Sabanis1ENT Department, General Hospital Paidon Pentelis, Athens, Greece2Nephrology Department, General Hospital of Edessa, Edessa, Greece3Department of Internal Medicine, Dromokaiteio Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, Greece4Surgery Department, General Hospital Evangelismos, Athens, Greece

ePP056AN UNCOMMON CAUSE OF ELEVATED CREATINE KINASE IN AN ELDERLY MALE PATIENTDiana Maria Gherman, Delia Lupu, Daniela Fodor2nd Internal Medicine Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu”, Cluj Napoca, Romania


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ePP057SYNCHRONOUS MALIGNANT TUMORS OF DIFFERENT GENESIS IN AXILLARY LYMPH NODES1,8Emmanouil Dimonitsas, 2Gregory Charitos, 3Konstantina Fragia-Tsivou, 4Konstantinos Dritsakos, 5Florentia Fostira, 1Eleni Christodoulaki, 6Nikolaos Kentepozidis, 7Irene Stefanaki, 7Alexandros Stratigos, 8Ioannis Kapiris1Second Department of Surgery, 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece2Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece3Private Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy, HistoBio Diagnosis, Athens, Greece4Pathological Anatomy Department, 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece5Μolecular Diagnostics Laboratory, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece6Department of Oncology, 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece7First Department of Dermatology and Venereology, “A. Sygros” Hospital, University of Athens, Greece8Onassis Charitable Foundation, Athens, Greece

ePP058A CASE OF REFRACTORY HYPONATREMIA IN A CANCER PATIENT1Maria Domenikou, 1Aggeliki Rapanou, 1Georgios Kalogeropoulos, 1Despina Liourdi, 1Dimitrios Serpanos, 2Ourania Drakoulogkona, 1Apostolos Papapostolou, 1Kalliopi Fouka, 2Konstantina Goula, 1Aggeliki Fragkoulia1Pathology Department, St Andrews General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece2Nephrology Department, St Andrews General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece

ePP059HODGKIN LYMPHOMA PRESENTING AS A CERVICAL LYMPH NODE CONGLOMERATELilian Sousa, Susana Cunha, Vera Vieira, Catarina PereiraServiço de Medicina II, Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

ePP060CHECK AGAIN! PRIMARY T CELL LYMPHOMA PRESENTING AS A TESTICULAR MASSOdianosen Obadan, Mirette Salib, Jose Pace, Mendel WarshawskySt John’s Episcopal Hospital, U.S.A.


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ePP061MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE OF DUAL ENERGY CONTRAST ENHANCED DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY1Elsa Tzamicha, 1Evangelos Georgiou, 4George Giakoumakis, 3Virginia Tsapaki, 2Athanasios Chalazonitis1Medical Physics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece2Radiology Department, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, Greece3Radiology Department, Aghia Olga General Hospital, Athens, Greece4International MBA AUEB, Athens, Greece

ePP062DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS: ESTIMATION OF MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE IN BREAST1Elsa Tzamicha, 2Christos Antypas, 1Anestis Dimitriadis, 3George Giakoumakis, 1Evangelos Georgiou1Medical Physics Dpt, University of Athens, Greece2CyberKnife and TomoTherapy Department, Iatropolis Clinic, Athens, Greece, First Department of Radiology, Aretaieion Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece3International MBA AUEB, Athens, Greece

ePP063PENILE MONDOR’S DISEASE IN PATIENT WITH ANAL CANCER RECEIVING RADIOCHEMOTHERAPY: A CASE REPORT1Eleni Fotiou, 1Vasilis Vasiliou, 1Petros Polyviou, 1Maria Pittaka, 2Christiana Matthaiou, 2Margarita Dionisiou, 1Demetris Andreopoulos1Department of Radiation Oncology, Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus2Department of Medical Oncology, Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

ePP064INCIDENTAL SIMULTANEOUS DIAGNOSIS OF TWO DIFFERENT PRIMARY MALIGNANCIES: A CASE REPORTMaria Pittaka, Eleni Fotiou, Vasilis Vasiliou, Demetris AndreopoulosDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus


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ePP065CASE OF METASTATIC PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER TREATED BY THYROIDECTOMY AND RADIOTHERAPY 8 YEARS AGO, PRESENTED AS RESPIRATORY INFECTION1Konstantinos Kounouklas, 1Petros Savourdos, 1Ioannis Lianos, 1Ioannis Chatzidakis, 1Stavroula Gongaki, 1Eleni Mostratou, 1Nikolaos Simeonidis, 2Konstantinos Marios Soultanis, 3Nikolaos Kentepozidis, 4Georgios Toloumis12nd Department of Internal Medicine 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece2Department of Thoracic Surgery 251 Hellenic Airforce General Hospital, Athens, Greece3Oncology Department 251 Hellenic Airforce General Hospital, Athens, Greece4Director of the Hellenic Airforce Health Service, Athens, Greece

ePP066FNA CYTOLOGY FORTHE DIAGNOSIS OF METASTATIC MELANOMA TO AXILLARY REGION1Skevoudi Soultana, 1Georgios Hahalis, 1Konstantinos Theocharides, 1Vitor Gourvas, 2Freideriki Patakiouta, 3Jacob Angel 1Cytology Department, Hospital Theagenio, Thessaloniki, Greece2Pathology Department, Hospital Theagenio, Thessaloniki, Greece3Pulmonary-Oncology Clinic, Hospital Thegenio, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP067DIAGNOSIS OF UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA OF PROSTATE GLAND WITH URINE CYTOLOGICAL EXAMINATION1Skevoudi Soultana, 1Hahalis Georgios, 1Theocharides Konstantinos, 1Gourvas Victor, 2Moustakas Georgios, 3Patakiouta Freideriki 1Cytology Department, Theagenio Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece2Urological Clinic, Theagenio Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece3Pathology Department, Theagenio Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP068ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE COLON PRESENTING AS SINGLE SCALP METASTASIS: CASE REPORT1Christina Nikolaidou, 2Theodoros Sidiropoulos, 1Stavroula Papadopoulou, 1Georgios Hahalis, 1Aspasia Deliligka, 1Ioannis Venizelos1Department of Pathology, Hospital Theagenio, Thessaloniki, Greece2Department of Dermatology, Hospital of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Thessaloniki, Greece


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ePP069EXTRANODAL B-LYMPHOBLASTIC LYMPHOMA PRESENTING AS A SOLITARY SOFT TISSUE MASS: CASE REPORTStavroula Papadopoulou, Christina Nikolaidou, Aspasia Deliligka, Georgios Hahalis, Chrisostomi-Maria Platsa, Ioannis VenizelosDepartment of Pathology, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP070PRIMARY NON-HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA OF THE UTERUS: A RARE CASE REPORTStavroula Papadopoulou, Christina Nikolaidou, Aspasia Deliligka, Georgios Hahalis, Chrisostomi-Maria Platsa, Ioannis VenizelosDepartment of Pathology, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP071ABDOMINAL BURKITT’S LYMPHOMA: CASE REPORT WITH MOLECULAR CONFIRMATIONStavroula Papadopoulou, Christina Nikolaidou, Aspasia Deliligka, Georgios Hahalis, Chrisostomi-Maria Platsa, Ioannis VenizelosDepartment of Pathology, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP072HODGKIN LYMPHOMA WITH LIVER AND BONE METASTASES AT PRESENTATION: CASE REPORTStavroula Papadopoulou, Christina Nikolaidou, Aspasia Deliligka, Georgios Hahalis, Ιoannis VenizelosDepartment of Pathology, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP073PRIMARY MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA, BLASTOID TYPE, OF THE HEAD AND NECK: PRESENTATION OF TWO CASESGeorgios Hahalis, Stavroula Papadopoulou, Christina Nikolaidou, Aspasia Deliligka, Chrisostomi-Maria Platsa, Ioannis VenizelosDepartment of Pathology, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece


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ePP074ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE (eNOS) T786C POLYMORPHISM AND SICKLE CELL DISEASE (SCD) RETINOPATHY1Iakovos Armenis, 1Vassiliki Kalotychou, 1,2Revekka Tzanetea, 3Zoi Kontogeorgiou, 3Dimitra Anastasopoulou, 1Marina Mantzourani, 1Michael Samarkos, 4Konstantinos Pantos, 5Kostas Konstantopoulos, 2Ioannis Rombos11st Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko Hospital, Athens, Greece2Metropolitan Hospital, Athens, Greece3Department of Biology, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece4Department of Pharmacology, Medical School, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece5Department of Hematology, Medical School, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko Hospital, Athens, Greece

Cardiovascular Diseases ePP075-ePP099

ePP075BILATERAL LIMB-SHAKING TIA: A MASTER OF DISGUISE1Samantha Simpkins, 1Stephanie Oade, 2,3Stuart Currie, 1Lucy Hicken, 1,3Vasileios Papavasileiou1Stroke Services, Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK2Department of Radiology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK3School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK

ePP076AN 84-YEAR OLD LADY WITH RECURRENT STROKES: COULD THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF A URINE MICROSCOPY TEST HAVE PREVENTED THEM?1Stephanie Oade, 1Sarah Thompson, 2,3Daniel Warren, 1,3John Bamford, 1,3Vasileios Papavasileiou1Stroke Services, Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK2Department of Radiology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK3School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK

ePP077HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS IN A PATIENT WITH A MEDULLARY LESION1Gloria Perez-Vazquez, 2Esther Rubio-Martin, 3Juan Antonio Jimenez-Casas, 3Luis Garcia-Aragon, 1Jose Luis Puerto-Alonso, 1Jose Luis Bianchi-Llave1Internal Medicine, La Linea-SAS Hospital, Spain2Nephrology, La Linea-SAS Hospital, Spain3Primary Care, Gibraltar Health Care Field Area, Gibraltar


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ePP078PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MEAN PLATELET VOLUME IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKEKonstantinos Tziomalos, Stella Bouziana, Marianna Spanou, Stavroula Kostaki, Maria Papadopoulou, Stella-Maria Angelopoulou, Maria Tsopozidi, Konstantinos Christou, Christos Savopoulos, Apostolos HatzitoliosFirst Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP079ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION IN THOMBOPROPHYLAXIS: REVIEW AND A DERIVED HYPOTHESIS ABOUT THROMBOGENESIS - THE 4TH FACTORChristos StefanouICU, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus

ePP080TREATMENT AND EVOLUTION OF CARDIOGENIC SHOCK DUE TO MASSIVE PULMONARY EMBOLISMSorina-Monica Safciuc, Melania Ciobanu, GinaTutuianuInternal Medicine, Emergency Hospital, Moinesti, Romania

ePP081PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE AND DIED IN 10 DAYS, CORRELATION WITH DYSLIPIDEMIA, HYPERTENSION KAI DIABETESDavid Symeonidis, Georgios Augouleas, Alkistis Kalesis, Konstantinos Koutsianas, Garyfalia Linardaki, Stavros AntonopoulosB Pathology Department, Tzaneio Pireaus Hospital, Pireaus, Greece

ePP082THE EVALUATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS ON THE REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION1Majlinda Zahaj, 1Rozeta Luci, 1Glodiana Sinanaj, 1Brunilda Subashi, 1Denada Selfo, 2Fatmir Luci1Health Department, Public Health Faculty, University Ismail Qemali of Vlora, Albania2Internal Diseases Unit, Vlora Regional Hospital, Albania

ePP083PROTEINURIA IN A SNAKEBITE PATIENT WITH SEVERE HYPERTENSIONChristos Demosthenous, Georgios Evangelou, Maria Gavra, Glykeria TzatzagouA’ Department of Internal Medicine, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece


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ePP084EPIDIMIOLOGY AND RISK FACTORS OF CVAS IN A SEMIRURAL POPULATIONAndreas Stylianou, Sophia Christodoulou, Haris Constantinou, Michaela Prastiti, Maria Skarpari, Panagiota Georgiou, Georgos Olympios Department of Internal Medicine, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus

ePP085BRUCELLA ENDOCARDITISMajedah Allahham, Aref SandoukLaboratory, Cardiology department, Dar Alshefa Hospital, Damascus, Syria

ePP086ISOLATED ASCITES IN PATIENT WITH SICKLE-CELL DISEASE CAUSED BY ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT AND SEVERE MITRAL REGURGITATION1,2Christos Zissis, 1Dimitra Maritsa, 3Stamatis Papadatos, 1Efterpi Theodoroula, 1Charalabos Karageorgos, 1Ioannis Lolos, 1Athanasios Kogias, 1Stefanos Milonas12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Trikala, Greece2Thalassemia Unit, General Hospital of Trikala, Greece33rd Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens, Greece

ePP087NOVEL TREATMENT OF STROKE AND THE ROLE OF PRECONDITIONINGEirini Chrysovalantou Katsouli, Ilektra-Antonia MavroeidiMedical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

ePP088THE RELATIONSHIP OF CAROTID ARTERY THICKNESS TO LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION AND SURVIVAL IN DIALYSIS PATIENTS.1Merita Rroji, 1Nereida Spahia, 1Saimir Seferi, 2Majlinda Cafka, 1Alma Idrizi, 1Myftar Barbullushi1University Hospital Center “ Mother Teresa”, Service of Nephrology, Tirana, Albania2University Hospital Center” Mother Teresa”, Service of Cardiology, Tirana, Albania

ePP089PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA MIMICKING BOTH ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME AND SEVERE SEPSISMagdalini Velegraki, Petros Ioannou, Vasiliki Theodorakopoulou, John A. Papadakis, Achilleas GikasDepartment of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital of Heraklion, Greece


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ePP090THE RESTLESS HEART: A CASE REPORTAndrada Camelia Guta, Ana Maria Daraban, Gabriel Sica, Daniela BartosEmergency Clinical Hospital Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

ePP091MYXOMA:A RARE TUMOR OF THE HEART RESPONSIBLE FOR RECURRENT EMBOLIC STROKES1Christos Zissis, 1Efterpi Theodoroula, 1Dimitra Maritsa, 1Charalampos Karageorgos, 1Ioannis Lolos, 2Athanasios Tsiampalis, 1Sofia Veneti, 1Stefanos Milonas12nd Internal Medicine Clinic, General Hospital of Trikala, Trikala, Greece2Cardiological Clinic, General Hospital of Trikala, Trikala, Greece

ePP092STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS ACUTE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS INVOLVING CONCOMITANT NATIVE AND PROSTHETIC VALVE POS-CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERYGalini Koursari Vieira, Dúlio Passos, Paula Rocha, Rui MM Victorino, J. Meneses SantosInternal Medicine II, Sector D, Santa Maria Hospital, North Lisbon Central Hospital, Portugal

ePP093THE IMPACT OF SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH RISK FACTORS IN THE PREVALENCE OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION (AH) IN GREEK URBAN POPULATION1Ioannis Vrettos, 2Evelina Pappa, 3Chrysoula Belesioti, 1Panagiota Voukelatou, 4Angelos Papadopoulos, 3Dimitris Niakas12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General and Oncology Hospital of Kifissia “Agioi Anargyroi”, Athens, Greece2Faculty of Social Sciences, Hellenic Open University, Patra, Greece3National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece41st Regional Health Authority, Athens, Greece

ePP094USE OF ANGIOTENSIN II RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS IN ANTIHYPERTENSIVE TREATMENT IN THESSALONIKI, GREECEStamatia Michailidou, Maria Michailidou, Paraskevi Papaioannidou1st Department of Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece


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ePP095OUTCOME OF CARDIAC ARREST MANAGEMENT AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY1Nikolin Filipi, 2Kozeta Filipi, 3Jonida Peci1European Hospital - GVM Care and Research, Tirana, Albania2Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania3American Hospital of Tirana, Albania

ePP096CARDIOVASCULAR MANIFESTATIONS IN YOUNG PATIENTS WITH HIATAL HERNIA1Maria Cristina Bezna, 2Marinela Bezna, 1Doina Carstea, 3Madalina Dumitrescu1Cardiology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Craiova, Romania2Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Craiova, Romania3Family Medicine Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Craiova, Romania

ePP097FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS AND MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION1Raquel Rodil, 1Paula Mendoza, 2Vincenzo Malafarina, 1Gregorio Tiberio1Internal Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Spain2Geriatric Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Spain

ePP098A RARE AND SERIOUS COAGULOPOATHY SECONDARY TO DABIGATRAN USE1Sema Ucak, 1Rıdvan Sivritepe, 1Damla Ortaboz, 1Ecem Sevim Çalık1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

ePP099PRE-DIABETIC AND DIABETIC SITUATION ACCOMPANIED BY ALTERED HDL LIPIDOME: AN 1H NMR BASED LIPIDOMIC APPROACH1Christina Kostara, 1Eleni Bairaktari, 2Moses Elisaf, 2Vasilis Tsimihodimos1Laboratory of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece2Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece


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Infectious Diseases ePP100-ePP130

ePP100SHORT COURSE CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS IN A PATIENT WITH IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURASarra Evanthia, Christina Stamatopoulou, Panagiota Chalmouki, Constantinos Petrogiannopoulos1st Department of Internal Medicine, Hellenic Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece

ePP101INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS BY BRUCELLA SPP1Andreas Efstathopoulos, 1Thomas Tzimas, 1Dimitrios Patsouras, 1Vassilios Meladinis, 1Gerasimos Baxevanos, 2Efstratios Apostolakis, 1Elias Liapis1General Hospital of Iannina “G Hatzikosta”, Ioannina, Greece2University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

ePP102EPIDEMIOLOGY AND SEROPREVALENCE OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV) AMONG GREEK MALE YOUNG ADULTS1,3Dafni Koumoutsea, 2,3Andreas Nakos, 1,2,3Vasileios German, 1,3Eleftherios Chouliaras, 1Dimitrios Krentiris, 1Athanasios Kikilas, 1Georgios Margaritis, 1Dimitrios Fouskas, 1Dimitrios Tabakopoulos, 1,3Georgios Giannakos1Sector of Internal Medicine, 401 General Army Hospital of Athens, Greece2Sector of Internal Medicine, 424 General Military Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece3Sector of Internal Medicine, 417 Veterans Affairs Hospital of Athens (NIMTS), Greece

ePP103MONONUCLEOSIS SYNDROME ASSOCIATED WITH CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV) INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH NO SIGNIFICANT CO -MORBIDITY1Aikaterini Drylli, 2Vasiliki Mamakou, 3Nikolaos Sabanis1ENT Department, General Hospital Paidon Pentelis, Athens, Greece2Department of Internal Medicine, Dromokaiteio Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, Greece3Nephrology Department, General Hospital of Edessa, Pella, Greece

ePP104ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE OF URINARY TRACT PATHOGENS AND ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY1Ariana Milori, 2Eleftheria Miliori, 1Ilias Gkatsis, 1Basiliki Koletti, 1Aikaterini Vogiatzi1Department of Microbiology, Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Messolonghi, Messolonghi, Greece2National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece


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ePP105A SUCCESSFULLY TREATED CASE OF RHINOCEREBRAL MUCORMYCOSIS IN A PATIENT WITH IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA AND STEROID DIABETES1Maria Mylona, 1Pantelis Toskas, 1Paraskeyi Papaioannou, 2Ioannis Deliolanis, 3Georgios Cremlis, 1Stavros Liatis, 1Aggelos Toskas11st Department of Propaedeutic & Internal Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece2Microbiology Department, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece3Ear, Nose & Throat Department, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece

ePP106DISSEMINATED NOCARDIOSIS MIMIKING A METASTATIC DISEASE1José Luis Puerto-Alonso, 2Armando Falces, 1Gloria Pérez-Vázquez, 1Enrique Sánchez-Relinque, 1José Manuel Gil-Gascón, 3Emilio Campos-Dávila1Internal Medicine Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain2Unit of Neumology, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain3Pharmacy Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain

ePP107PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS FROM STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS: SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT WITH COMBINATION OF INTRAVENOUS AND ORAL ANTIMICROBIALS1Alkiviadis Ioannou, 1Nikolaos Alexiou, 1Haralambos Giannopoulos, 1Eleftheria Rizou, 1Marina Koupetori, 2Nikolaos Kouris, 2Christoforos Olymbios, 1Styliani Symbardi11st Department of Internal Medicine “THRIASIO” General Hospital, Elefsina, Greece2Cardiology Department, “THRIASIO” General Hospital, Elefsina, Greece

ePP108MULTIFOCAL SPLENIC ABSCESS IN IMMUNOCOMPETENT ADULTS DUE TO CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE (CSD): A REPORT OF TWO CASES1Eleana Gkamprela, 2Nikolaos Papadopoulos, 2Anna Pavlidi, 1Vasilios Papadimitropoulos, 1Maria Pirounaki, 1Spilios Manolakopoulos, 1Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, 2Eirini Sveroni, 2Vasileios German, 1Melanie Deutsch12nd Department of Internal Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Hippokration Hospital of Athens, Greece21st department of Internal Medicine, 417 Army Share Fund Hospital of Athens, Greece


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ePP109ACINETOBACTER BAUMANII SPONDYLYTIS FOLLOWING LONG-TERM HOSPITALIZATIONTheano Kontopoulou, Androniki Papapostolou, Panteleimon Tsiamalos, Elpida Charalampaki, Eleftheria Kranidioti, Anastasia Mantzavini, Petros Avgerinos3rd Internal Medicine Department, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens Greece

ePP110A STUDY OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS STRAINS ISOLATED IN WOUND CULTURES FROM ORTHOPEDIC PATIENTS1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Apostolina Papadopoulou, 1George Katagis, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1Marina Gerasimou, 1Foteini Adam, 1Panagiotis Christodoulou, 1Konstantinos Tolis, 1Anastasia Pournou1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece3Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece

ePP111A STUDY OF THE INCIDENCE OF GRAM(+) COCCI IN SAMPLES FROM PATIENTS IN THE ICU OF A TERTIARY HOSPITAL AND THEIR RESISTANCE TO ANTIBIOTICS.1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Athanasios Margaritis, 4Apostolina Papadopoulou, 3Maria Mpolosi, 1Christos Briasoulis, 1Christos Georgiou, 1Lampros Papageorgiou, 1Evaggelia Chrisostomou, 1Anastasia Pournou1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece3Intensive Care Unit, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece4Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece

ePP112A RARE CASE OF ACUTE CERVICAL TRANSVERSE MYELITIS ASSOCIATED WITH STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS BACTEREMIA AND OSTEOMYELITIS1Stamatis Karakonstantis, 1Despoina Galani, 1Sevasti Maragou, 1Asimina Koulouridi, 1Kalliopi Milaki, 2Periklis Kotsopoulos, 3Konstantinos Psilakis, 3Victoria Stilianaki, 1Charalampos Lydakis1Internal Medicine Department B, Venizeleio General Hospital, Heraklion, Greece2Internal Medicine Department, Rethymnon General Hospital, Rethymnon, Greece3Radiology Department, Venizeleio General Hospital, Heraklion, Greece


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ePP113COLONIZATION OF INTRAVASCULAR CATHETERS OF PATIENTS IN THE ICU IN A TERTIARY HOSPITAL DURING A PERIOD OF 6 YEARS1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Athanasios Margaritis, 4Apostolina Papadopoulou, 3Maria Mpolosi, 1Christos Briasoulis, 1Christos Georgiou, 1Dimitris Gouneniotis, 1Konstantinos Tolis, 1Anastasia Pournou1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece3Intensive Care Unit, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece4Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece

ePP114COMMON CAUSES OF BACTEREMIA IN PATIENTS IN THE ICU1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Athanasios Margaritis, 1Evaggelia Chrisostomou, 3Maria Mpolosi, 1George Katagis, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1Marina Gerasimou, 4Aristea Zotou, 1Anastasia Pournou1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece3Intensive Care Unit, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece4Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

ePP115INVASIVE INFECTIONS CAUSED BY CANDIDA.SPP IN PATIENTS IN THE ICU IN A TERTIARY HOSPITAL1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Athanasios Margaritis, 3Maria Bolosi, 1Christos Mitsis, 1Christos Briasoulis, 1Foteini Adam, 1Panagiotis Christodoulou, 1Konstantinos Tolis, 1Anastasia Pournou1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece3Intensive Care Unit, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

ePP116A CASE REPORT OF CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS MENINGIOENCEPHALITIS IN AN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PATIENTAndreas Kessaris, Konstantinos Valakis, Despina EvrenoglouICU, Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens, Greece


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ePP117ISOLATION OF BACTERIAL SPECIES IN CHILDREN’S URINE CULTURES1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Vasilis Grammeniatis, 4Apostolina Papadopoulou, 1Christos Mitsis, 1George Katagis, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1Marina Gerasimou, 1Christos Georgiou, 1Anastasia Pournou1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece3Pediatric Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece4Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece

ePP118RARE CASE OF ACUTE Q-FEVER PRESENTING WITH FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN AND REACTIVE ARTHRITIS1Christos Zissis, 1Dimitra Maritsa, 3Stamatis Papadatos, 1Efterpi Theodoroula, 1Nikolaos Aggelis, 2Eleni Gatsa, 1Stefanos Milonas12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Trikala, Trikala, Greece2Department oh Hematology, General Hospital of Trikala, Trikala, Greece33rd Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

ePP119ISOLATION OF CANDIDA. SPP IN SURGICAL WOUND CULTURES FROM PATIENTS OF A TERTIARY HOSPITAL1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Apostolina Papadopoulou, 1Evaggelia Chrisostomou, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1Christos Mitsis, 1Christos Briasoulis, 1Marina Gerasimou, 4Aristea Zotou, 1Anastasia Pournou1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece3Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece4Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

ePP120ROTAVIRUS AND ADENOVIRUS AS CAUSES OF GASTROENTERITIS IN THE PEDIATRIC POPULATION1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Vasilis Grammeniatis, 4Apostolina Papadopoulou, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1Christos Mitsis, 1Christos Georgiou, 1Marina Gerasimou, 1Evaggelia Chrisostomou, 1Anastasia Pournou1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece3Pediatric Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece4Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece


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ePP121PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY (PML) - IRIS IN A PATIENT WITH HIV INFECTION1Sophia Kalantzi, 2Dimitrios Basoulis, 1Dimitrios Tsilingiris, 2Mina Psichogiou11st Propaedeutic Internal Medicine Department, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece21st Internal Medicine Department, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece

ePP122VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN A PATIENT WITH THYMOMA1Christina Karampampa, 1Aimilia Pelekanou, 1Evangelos Michelakis, 1Maria Agrogianni, 1Anastasia Ioannidou, 2Kalliopi Vallianatou, 3Antigoni Karakosta, 4Nikolaos Tzatzadakis, 1Panagiotis Zormpas, 1Christos Drakoulis12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “AgiosPanteleimon”, Athens, Greece2Hematology Department, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “AgiosPanteleimon”, Athens, Greece3Department of Pathology, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “AgiosPanteleimon”, Athens, Greece4Department of Thoracic Surgery, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “AgiosPanteleimon”, Athens, Greece

ePP123INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA WITH SEPSIS SYMPTOMS FROM YOKENELLA REGENSBURGEI IN GREECE1Ariana Miliori, 1Ilias Gkatsis, 2Eleftheria Miliori, 1Giannis Ntalakouras, 1Basiliki Koletti, 1Aikaterini Vogiatzi1Department of Microbiology, Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Messolonghi, Messolonghi, Greece2National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

ePP124PHYSICIANS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIPTION1Ariana Milori, 2Eleftheria Miliori1Department of Microbiology, General Hospital of Messolonghi, Greece2National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Greece


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ePP125A CASE OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN A YOUNG MAN WITH FEVER, WEIGHT LOSS AND NIGHT SWEATSGeorgia Samakidou, Dimitra Tsionara, Ourania Triantafyllou, Armonia Chatzigeorgiou, Konstantinos Krapis, Theodora Konstantoula, Konstantinos Karakousis, Vasileios Lalos, Konstantinos KaramitsosGeneral Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

ePP126URINARY TRACT INFECTION CASES AND HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED CATHETER-ASSOCIATED URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS1Ariana Milori, 2Eleftheria Miliori1Department of Microbiology, General Hospital of Messolonghi, Greece2National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Greece

ePP127PERITONEAL TUBERCULOSIS: AN ELUSIVE DIAGNOSIS OF PATIENTS WITH ASCITES1Foteini Chatzivasiloglou, 1Dimitrios Lazaridis, 2Christina Griniouk, 1Dimitrios Papavasileiou, 2Ira Michailidou, 1Thomas Montsenigos, 1Ioannis Nikolopoulos, 1Ioannis Saflianis11st Internal Medicine Department, Sismanogleion General Hospital, Athens, Greece22nd Pulmonary Department, Sismanogleion General Hospital, Athens, Greece

ePP128A PATIENT WITH AN UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS: THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX1Erietta Polychronopoulou, 1Pinelopi Arvaniti, 1Dimitrios Sagris, 1Argyrios Loukopoulos, 1Georgia Papadamou, 1Nikolaos K. Gatselis, 1Konstantinos P. Makaritsis, 2George K. Koukoulis, 1George N. Dalekos1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece2Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

ePP129VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN A CRONICALLY HEMODIALYZED PATIENT SUFFERING FROM POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE1Emmanouil Spanou, 2Christos Paliouras, 3Aggelos Zervos, 1Fotini Lambrianou, 1Giorgos Ntetskas, 1Konstantinos Roufas, 1Nikolaos Karvouniaris, 1Emmanouil Anastasakis, 4Stylianos Karatapanis1Hematology Department of General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece2Nefrology Department of General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece3Hemodialysis Center “Helionephro”, Rhodes, Greece41st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece


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ePP130A RARE REASON OF HYPERCALCEMIA: TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS CONFUSED WITH SARCOIDOSISSema Ucak, Tuğba Arisoy, Ridvan Sivritepe, Damla Ortaboz, Ecem Sevim Çalik, Beytullah GünerDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

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ePP131LARYGEAL DYSTONIA AS THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF FAHR’S DISEASE1José Luis Puerto-Alonso, 2Virginia Delgado-Gil, 1Enrique Sánchez Relinque, 1Gloria Pérez-Vazquez, 1José Manuel Gil-Gascón, 1Pedro Díaz de Souza, 2Pablo Cabezudo1Internal Medicine Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain2Neurology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain

ePP132PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN IN ELDERLY PATIENTS INTUBATED AND MECHANICALLY VENTILATED IN A MEDICAL WARD1Fani Kyriakou, 2Paris Armyros, 2Socratis Giovanis, 2Evaggelia Ouranou, 2Georgios Erotokritou12nd Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens, “Ippokration” General Hospital, Athens, Greece21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Nikaia “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece

ePP133TRANSMETATARSAL AMPUTATION FOR FOOT GANGRENE: A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCEKonstantinos Nikolakopoulos, Chrysanthi Papageorgopoulou, Ioannis Ntouvas, Spyros Papadoulas, Anastasia Kouri, Stavros Kakkos, George Lampropoulos, Ioannis TsolakisDepartment of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Greece


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ePP134GROWTH AND VASCULAR REMODELING FACTORS DURING A BASKETBALL SEASON IN ADOLESCENT BOYS1Elias Armenis, 2Anastassios Philippou, 1Maria Maridaki, 1Panayiotis Baltopoulos, 3Maria Tsironi1Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece2Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece3Department of Nursing, University of Peloponnese, Greece

ePP135THE IMPACT OF COMORBIDITIES IN COMBINED PULMONARY FIBROSIS AND EMPHYSEMA SYNDROME1Jolanda Nikolla, 2Roland Hasa, 3Hasan Hafizi1Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, Hygeia Hospital, Tirana, Albania2Radiology Department, Hygeia, Hospital, Tirana, Albania3Pulmonology Department, University Hospital “Shefqet Ndroqi”, Tirana, Albania

ePP136ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CROHN DISEASE AND ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS. A CASE REPORTClaudia Ileana Mihailov, Luminita PeniuDepartment of Medical Semiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University of Constanta, Clinical Port Hospital of Constanta, IInd Medical Department Constanta, Romania

ePP137NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMSMadalina Duna, Laura Groseanu, Ruxandra IonescuInternal Medicine and Rheumatology, Saint Mary Hospital, Bucharest, Carol Davila University, Bucharest, Roumania

ePP138RHABDOMYOLYSIS SECONDARY TO OLANZAPINE USESema Ucak, Rıdvan Sivritepe, Damla Ortaboz, Ecem Sevim ÇalıkDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey


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ePP139VIPERA ASPIS ENVENOMATION: EARLY NEUROLOGICAL AND MUSCULAR COMPLICATIONS MIMICKING MYASTHENIA GRAVIS1Nikolaos Sabanis, 2Eleni Paschou, 3Aikaterini Drylli, 4Antonia Papazoglou, 5Vasiliki Mamakou, 1Eleni Tsotsiou1Nephrology Department, General Hospital of Edessa, Pella, Greece2Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Edessa, Pella, Greece3ENT Department, General Hospital Paidon Pentelis, Athens, Greece4Surgery Departement, General Hospital Evangellismos, Athens, Greece5Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Dromokaiteio, Athens, Greece

ePP140ANTICHOLINERGIC TOXIDROME AFTER INGESTION OF JIMSON WEED REQUIRING INTENSIVE CAREClaudia Lakoniti, Andreas Kessaris, Konstantinos Valakis, Despina EvrenoglouICU, Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens, Greece

ePP141DAPSONE- INDUCED HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS1Maria Mylona, 1Pantelis Toskas, 2Panagiota Lambrou, 2Eleni Taktikou, 3Christos F. Kampolis, 2Aggelos Toskas11st Department of Propaedeutic & Internal Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece2Pulmonary Department, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece3Department of Pathophysiology, Laiko General Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece

ePP142CASE REPORT OF ANTI-TNF DRUG INDUCED LUPUSDimitra Stathi, Nicolaos Symeonidis, Filio Marineli2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Hellenic Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece

ePP143A WOMAN PRESENTED WITH AN EXTREMELY RAPIDLY EVOLVING AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS)- A CASE REPORT1Afroditi Spyrou, 1Ioannis Liapis, 2Giorgos Ntetskas, 1Anastasia Kaliotzoglou, 2Eystathia Anastasiou, 2Dimitra Kozikopoulou, 2Nikitas Katsilis, 2Despoina Diakonikola, 2Georgios Psellakis, 2Stylianos Karatapanis1Neurology Department General Hospital of Rhodes, Greece21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Greece


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ePP144WHEN DIPLOPIA REVEALS NEOPLASIALilian Sousa, Cátia Santos, Susana Cunha, João SantosServiço de Medicina II, Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

ePP145WERNICKE-KORSAKOFF SYNDROME IN A PREGNANT WOMAN WITH HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM- A CASE REPORT1Afroditi Spirou, 1Ioannis Liapis, 2Maria Stampori, 2Nikitas Katsilis, 1Anastasia Kaliotzoglou, 2Giorgos Ntetskas, 2Eystathia Anastasiou, 2Despina Diakonikola, 2Chrisostomos Pselas, 2Stilianos Karatapanis1Neurology Department, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes

ePP146HOSPITALIZED GERIATRIC PATIENTS WITH HYPONATREMIA: CLINICAL AND LABORATORY CHARACTERISTICS AND DIAGNOSIS IN A TERTIARY CARE MEDICAL CENTER DURING A 2-YEAR PERIOD1Petros Ioannou, 1Emmanouela Tsagkaraki, 1Konstantinos Fragkiadakis, 2Constantinos Tsioutis, 1Symeon Panagiotakis, 1Achilleas Gikas1Internal Medicine Department, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece2School of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Cyprus

ePP147DIETARY HABITS OF ELDERLY HABITUES IN AN OPEN CARE CENTERIoannis Kyriazis, Konstantinos Sgouros, Dimitra Stefani, Panagiotis Georgakopoulos, Panagiotis Koutsouris, Ioannis Tsamis, Eftyxia Pouliou, Kalliopi Vallianou, Andreas Marketos, Moysis LelekisInternal Medicine Department, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Athens, Greece

ePP148HYPERCALCEMIC CRISIS INDUCED BY ORAL CALCIUM AND VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTS IN POST SURGICAL HYPOPARATHYROIDISM:A CASE REPORTOurania Triantafyllou, Georgia Samakidou, Dimitra Tsionara, Flora Koumoutsou, Georgios Banis, Konstantinos Krapis, Spiridon Karamagkiolis, Konstantinos Karakousis, Konstantinos KaramitsosDepartment of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece


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ePP149CONSTIPATION: AN UNCOMMON PRESENTING SYMPTOM OF PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA1Theocharis Koufakis, 1Paraskevi Xekouki, 1Juliet Amanda Carmichael, 1Omar Mustafa, 1Jackie Gilbert, 2Dylan Lewis, 3Salvador Diaz-Cano, 1Benjamin Whitelaw, 4Gabriele Galata, 1Simon Aylwin1Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom2Department of Radiology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom3Department of Histopathology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom4Department of Endocrine Surgery, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom

ePP150ARE YOU OKAY WITH YOUR OSTEOPOROSIS TREATMENT?Fatih Mehmet CilingirInternal Medicine, Bafra State Hospital, Samsun, Turkey

ePP151THE CORRELATION BETWEEN GESTATIONAL DIABETES AND SUBCLINICAL THYROID DISEASE1,2,3,4Yllka Themeli, 5Arian Shtylla, 1,6Elinda Gjata, 1,2,7Daniela Teferici, 1,8Enkeleda Sinaj, 9Fatjona Kamberi, 1,7Floreta Kurti, 1Brizida Refatllari1Technical Medical Science Faculty, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania2“Med.al” Diagnostic Center, Tirana, Albania3“Continental” Hospital, Tirana, Albania4“Promed” Diagnostic Center, Tirana, Albania5Obstetric Gynecology Maternity Hospital “Koco Gliozheni”, Tirana, Albania6Obstetric Gynecology Clinic “Gjata”, Tirana, Albania7UHC “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania8“Fisiomed”, Tirana, Albania9Faculty of Public Health, University of Vlora, Albania

ePP152SEVERE COMPLICATION OF ACQUIRED HYPOTHYROIDISM OR LATE ONSET OF PSEUDO-PENDRED SYNDROME?1Aikaterini Drylli, 2Eleni Paschou, 3Vasiliki Mamakou, 4Antonia Papazoglou, 1Nikolaos Sabanis1ENT Department, General Hospital Paidon Pentelis, Athens, Greece2Nephrology Department, General Hospital of Edessa, Greece3Department of Internal Medicine, Dromokaiteio Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, Greece4Surgery Department, General Hospital Evangelismos, Athens, Greece


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ePP153METFORMIN REDUCES TSH IN HYPOTHYROID TYPE 2 DIABETIC PATIENTS1,2,3,4Yllka Themeli, 1,5Enkeleda Sinaj, 6Fatjona Kamberi, 1,2,8Daniela Teferici, 7Arian Shtylla, 1,8Floreta Kurti, 1Brizida Refatllari1Technical Medical Science Faculty, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania2“Med.al” Diagnostic Center, Tirana, Albania3“Continental” Hospital, Tirana, Albania4“Promed” Diagnostic Center, Tirana, Albania5“Fisiomed”, Tirana, Albania6Faculty of Public Health, University of Vlora, Albania7Obstetric Gynecology Maternity Hospital “Koco Gliozheni”, Tirana, Albania8UHC “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania

ePP154TRIGLYCERIDES, THE COMMON LINK BETWEEN HYPONATRAEMIA AND PANCREATITISLilian Sousa, Cátia Santos, Vera Frazão Vieira, Susana Cunha, João SantosServiço de Medicina II, Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

ePP155THE HIGHEST HbA1C LEVEL OF ON ELDERLY PATIENT WITH NEWLY DIAGNOSED DIABETES MELLITUS IN OUR CLINICSema Ucak, Rıdvan Sivritepe, Damla Ortaboz, Ecem Sevim ÇalıkDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul

ePP156METFORMIN-ASSOCIATED LACTIC ACIDOSIS: AN INTERESTING CASE REPORTIoanna Papagiouvanni, Nikolaos Staikoglou, Dimitra Valkanidou, Petros Doumtsis, Emmanouil Sinakos, Apostolos Dougalis, Theodora Oikonomou, Evangelos Cholongitas4th Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP157BEATING DIABETES: PERSONALISED APPROACH AND COMPLIMENTARY TREATMENT OF DIABETIC FOOT1Alexandros Kamaratos, 2ChristosTsagkaris, 2Stavros Tsakopoulos11st Internal Medicine Department, Tzaneio General Hospital of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece2Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece


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ePP158PREVALENCE OF THYROID DISEASE AMONG GREEK PATIENTS WITH TYPE 1 AND TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS ATTENDING AN OUTPATIENT DIABETES CENTERMaria Barmpari, Maria Kokkorou, Anastasia Micheli, Irene Alexiou, Eleftheria Spanou, Marina Noutsou, Anastasia ThanopoulouDiabetes Center, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokratio General Hospital of Athens, Greece, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

ePP159PREVALENCE OF METABOLIC SYNDROME IN A DIABETIC ELDERLY POPULATION: FEATURES AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS2Ioannis Kyriazis, 1Konstantinos Sgouros, 1Kleoniki Georgousi, 1Dimitra Stefani, 1Panagiotis Koutsouris, 1Konstantina Kyre, 1Ioannis Kaxrimanidis, 1Kalliopi Vallianou, 1Eftyxia Pouliou, 1Moysis Lelekis1Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece2Diabetes Outpatient Clinic, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece

ePP160ACHIEVING TREATMENT TARGETS IN A DIABETIC ELDERLY POPULATION2Ioannis Kyriazis, 1Konstantinos Sgouros, 1Dimitra Stefani, 1Kalafatis Emanouil, 1Panagiotis Koutsouris, 1Athanasios Drosos, 1Andreas Marketos, 1Moysis Lelekis1Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece2Diabetes Outpatient Clinic, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece

ePP161COMORBIDITY IN OBESE PATIENTS2Ioannis Kyriazis, 1Dimitra Stefani, 1Emanouil Kalafatis, 1Panagiotis Georgakopoulos, 1Kaliopi Vallianou, 1Ioannis Tsamis, 1Eftyxia Pouliou, 1Moysis Lelekis1Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece2Diabetes Outpatient Clinic, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece

ePP162CLIPPERS: A NEW INFLAMMATORY DISEASE OF CNSSophia Christodoulou, Ioanna Nikolaidou, Haris Constantinou, Sophia Filippidou, Maria Skarpari, Georgos Olympios, Andreas Stylianou Department of Internal Medicine, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus


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ePP163A WOMAN WITH EPISODES OF FEVER AND LIMB SWELLING1Eleni Mostratou, 1Konstantinos Pittas, 1Petros Savourdos, 1Ioannis Lianos, 1Nikolaos Simeonidis, 2Nikolaos Zervos, 3Georgios Delimpasis, 4Margaritis Tsantopoulos, 4Konstantinos Dritsakos, 5Dimitrios Hatzigeorgiou12nd Department of Internal Medicine, 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece2Rheumatology Department 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece3Magnetic Resorance Imaging Department 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece4Pathology Department 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece5Commander of 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece

ePP164ACUTE ONSET OF SARCOIDOSIS IN A HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT WHO WAS DIAGNOSED WITH LOFGREN’S SYNDROME1Nikolaos Sabanis, 1Eleni Paschou, 2Drylli Aikaterini, 3Vasiliki Mamakou, 4Eleni Tsotsiou1Nephrology Department, General Hospital of Edessa, Pella, Greece2ENT Clinic, General Hospital Paidon Pentelis, Athens, Greece3Department of Internal Medicine, Dromokaiteio Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, Greece4Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Edessa, Pella, Greece

ePP165ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE AS MANIFESTATION OF ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME IN A YOUNG WOMAN UNDER RIVAROXABAN TREATMENT1Nikolaos Varsamis, 1Evaggelia Theodorou, 1Nikolaos Metsikas, 1Thomas Tzimas, 1Lambros Raptis, 1Ilias Liappis, 2Niki Tsifetaki1Internal Medicine Department, Ioannina General Hospital, Ioannina, Greece2Rheumatology Department, Ioannina General Hospital, Ioannina, Greece

ePP166COULD BE USED RHEUMATOID FACTOR, ANTI-CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE AND AUTOANTIBODIES AGAINST MUTATED CITRULLINATED VIMENTIN TO PREDICT THE RESPONSE TO BIOLOGIC THERAPY IN RHEUMATOID ARTHITIS?1Bogdan Ion Gavrila, 1Claudia Ciofu, 1Carina Mihai, 1Mihai Bojinca, 1Victor Stoica, 2Dan Ciotaru, 2Mihaela Surcel, 2Adriana Munteanu, 2Cornel Ursaciuc, 3Eugenia Panaitescu1Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Dr. I. Cantacuzino Hospital “Carol Davila”, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania2INCD, “Victor Babes”, Bucharest, Romania3Dr. I. Cantacuzino Hospital “Carol Davila”, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Medical Informatics and Biostatistics, Bucharest, Romania


AKOVA MURAT Professor of Medicine, Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases Department, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Department of Diseases, Ankara, Turkey

ALEXOPOULOU ALEXANDRAAssistant Professor of Medicine, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece

ANSTEE QUENTIN Professor of Experimental Hepatology, Honorary Consultant Hepatologist, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

BASKOZOS IOANNISSecretary General of Public Health, Ministry of Health, WHO Europe Board Member, Athens, Greece

BLANK MIRI Professor of Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Immunology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Head, Research Unit, Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

BLOT STIJN Full Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health Science, Research Professor, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

DE BOER YNTOGastroenterologist, Department ofGastroenterology and Hepatology, VUUniversity Medical Center, Amsterdam,The Netherlands

BOUTATI ELENIAssociate Professor of Medicine, Diabetes, Infectious Diseases, Second Department of Propaedeutic Medicine, University General Hospital of Athens “Attikon”, Athens, Greece

BURNIER MICHEL Professor of Nephrology, Head, Service of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

VAN BUUREN R HENK Gastroenterologist, Department ofGastroenterology and Hepatology,Erasmus University Medical Center,Rotterdam, The Netherlands

CHOLONGITAS EVANGELOSAssistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Forth Academic Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

DALEKOS N. GEORGEProfessor of Medicine, President, Institute of Internal Medicine and Hepatology, President, Hellenic Association for the Study of the Liver, Vice President, Internal Medicine Society of Greece, Head, Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

INDEX OF INVITED FACULTY


DEUTCH MELANIAssistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital of Athens, Greece

DICHGANS MARTIN Professor, Director, Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Munich, Germany

DIMITRIADIS GEORGEProfessor of Pathology, Medical School, University of Athens, Director, Second Propaedeutic Medicine, Research Unit and Diabetes Center, University General Hospital of Athens “Attikon”, Athens, Greece

DIMOPOULOS GEORGEAssistant Professor of Critical CareMedicine, Department of Intensive Care,University General Hospital of Athens “Attikon”, Medical School University of Athens, Athens, Greece

DOURAKIS SPYRIDONProfessor of Internal Medicine - Hepatology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

EKSTEDT MATTIAS Senior Lecturer, Specialist in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Linköping, Sweden

ELISAF MOSESProfessor of Medicine, Director, Second Department of Internal Medicine,University General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

FERRO JOSE Chairman, Full Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

FLOREANI ANNAROSA Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

GATSELIS K. NIKOLAOSAssistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine & Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

GEORGOPOULOS SOTIRIOSDirector, Department of Gastroenterology, Athens Medical Center, Paleo Faliro General Hospital, Athens, Greece

GIANNITSIOTI EFTHYMIAInternal Medicine Consultant andInfectious Diseases Specialist,Forth Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Athens, University General Hospital of Athens “Attikon”, Athens, Greece

GUILLEVIN LOIC Professor of Medicine, Chairman, FDIME Research Working Group Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France



HADJICHRISTODOULOU CHRISTOSProfessor of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Head, Peripheral Public Heath Laboratory, Thessaly, Medical Department, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

HADZIYANNIS J. STEPHANOS Professor of Gastroenterology, Epidemiology, Hepatology, Research Associate, Second Department of Medicine, Athens University, Hippokration Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

HIRSCHFIELD GIDEON Professor of Autoimmune Liver Disease, Honorary Consultant, Transplant Hepatologist, Centre for Liver Research, NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

HOFMANN THOMAS WHO Regional Office for Europe, Area Coordinator IHR, Division of Health Emergencies and Communicable Diseases, Copenhagen, Denmark

HOVINGH KEES G. Internist - Vascular Medicine Specialist, Staff, Member, Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

JAMIN CHRISTOPHE Associate Professor, Laboratory of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Brest University Medical School, Brest, France

JORDAN JENS Professor of Medicine, DLR, Director,Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Cologne, Germany

KOHRMANN MARTIN Assistant Professor, Vice Chairman, Department of Neurology, Essen, Germany

KOSKINAS JOHNProfessor of Internal Medicine - Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Second Academic Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

KOTSIS VASILIOSAssociate Professor of Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

LAMBADIARI VAIAAssociate Professor of Pathology - Diabetes, Second Propaedeutic Medicine Research Unit and Diabetes Centre, University of Athens, University General Hospital of Athens “Attikon”, Athens, Greece

LIBERAL RODRIGO Senior Lecturer, Institute of Liver Studies King‘s College, London, School of Medicine, Denmark Hill, London, UK

LIP GREGORY Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Birmingham, Adjunct Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences, Thrombosis Research Unit, Aalborg University, Denmar, UK

LOPES JOSÉ ANTÓNIO Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, EPE, Lisbon, Portugal



MAKARITSIS KONSTANTINOSAssociate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine & Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, University of Thessaly Medical School, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

MANNUCCI PIER MANNUCCIO Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Milan, Angelo Bianchi Bonomi Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre, Milan, Italy

MANOUSSAKIS N. MENELAOS Professor of Rheumatology-Immunology, Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

MARAÑON CONCEPCION Senior Researcher, GENYO Centre, Granada, Spain

MATTLE HEINRICH Senior Consultant, University Department of Neurology, Bern, Switzerland

MENICHETTI FRANCESCO Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Pisa, Head, Infectious Diseases Unit, Cisanello Hospital, Pisa, Italy

MENUCCI DANIEL LINS Team Leader Ports, Airports and GroundCrossings, IHR Capacity Assessment,Development & Maintenance, WHO, Lyon, France

MONTANO NICOLA Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, President Elect, European Federation of Internal Medicine, Milan, Italy

MONTRAVERS PHILIPPE Head, Department of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital (University Paris VII Denis Diderot), Paris, France

MOUCHTOURI VARVARA Manager, EU SHIPSAN ACT Joint Action, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

NILSSON PETER Professor in Clinical Cardiovascular Research, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Director of the Strategic Research Network, Epidemiology for Health, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden

NTAIOS GEORGEAssistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Larissa University Hospital, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

PACKARD J CHRISProfessor of Vascular Biochemistry, Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

PALSSON RUNOLFUR President, European Federation of Internal Medicine, Professor of Medicine, University of Iceland, Chief, Division of Nephrology, Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland



PAPANAS NIKOLAOSAssociate Professor of Internal Medicine - Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetes Center, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, President of the Hellenic Diabetes Association (HDA), Alexandroupolis, Greece

PAPAVASILEIOU VASILEIOSConsultant in Stroke Medicine, LeedsTeaching, Hospitals NHS Trust, SeniorHonorary Lecturer School of Medicine,University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

PARES ALBERT Professor of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Senior Consultant, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain

PEDERSEN TERJE ROLF Professor, Senior Consultant University of Oslo, Retired Head of Research, Centre for Preventive Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Norway

PUTAALA JUKKA Stroke Neurologist, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

RATZIU VLAD Professor of Hepatology, University Pierre et Marie Curie Hospital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

RENAUDINEAU YVES Professor of Immunology, Laboratory of Immunology, Head, Service of Immunology and Intrenal Medicine, Brest University Medical School, Brest, France

RIZZO MANFREDI Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Palermo, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of South Carolina, USA, Deputy Scientific Director, Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology, Palermo, Italy

SAMONAKIS DIMITRIOSConsultant in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Gastroenterologist, University General Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

SAMSON MAXIME MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Dijon University Hospital, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France

SERENI DIANIEL President, Foundation for the Development of Internal Medicine in Europe (FDIME), Paris, France

SPENGOS KONSTANTINOSAssociate Professor of Neurology, Chairman, European Stroke Conference, Athens, Greece

STRBIAN DANIEL Associate Professor, Neurologist, Chief Doctor, Emergency Neurological Services, Chairman, Stroke Trials Unit, Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland



TOPLAK HERMANN Specialist for Endocrinology and Metabolism, Professor of Medicine, in charge of the Medical Curriculum in Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz, President, EASO, Graz, Austria

TSOCHATZIS EMMANUELSenior Clinical Lecturer, Consultant Hepatologist, London, UK

UNAL SERHAT Professor of Medicine, Chair, Department of Medicine , Medical Faculty, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

VALENSI PAUL Professor, Head of the Departments of Endocrinology-Diabetology-Nutrition of Jean Verdier Hospital (Bondy), René Muret Hospital (Sevran) and Avicenne hospital (Bobigny), Paris-Nord University, Paris, France

VEMMOS KONSTANTINOSStroke Internist, Consultant, Hellenic Cardiovascular Research Society, University of Athens, Athens General Hospital “Alexandra”, Athens, Greece

VERGANI DIEGO Professor of Liver Immunopathology, Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College Hospital, London, UK

VLACHOΥIANNOPOULOS PANAGIOTIS Professor of Medicine-Immunology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

VOULGARELIS MICHAELAssociate Professor in Hematology, Department of Pathophysiology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

WEDEMEYER HEINER Professor, Managing Senior Staff Physician & Principal Investigator, Hannover, Germany

WEIMAR CHRISTIAN Senior Consultant, Professor of Neurology,University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

YURDAYDIN CIHAN Chef, Department of Gastroenterology University of Ankara Medical School, Ankara, Turkey

ZANCHETTI ALBERTO Scientific Director, Istituto AuxologicoItaliano, Milan, Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

ZIEGLER DAN Professor, Institute for ClinicalDiabetology, Diabetes Center, Heinrich Heine University, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research, Department ofEndocrinology and Diabetology, MedicalFaculty, Heinrich Heine University, Dόsseldorf, Germany


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