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4. Non-Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Adolescents with Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome May Predict Future Cardiovascular Disease

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Tragomalou, Athanasia, primary, Paltoglou, George, additional, Manou, Maria, additional, Kostopoulos, Ioannis V., additional, Loukopoulou, Sofia, additional, Binou, Maria, additional, Tsitsilonis, Ourania E., additional, Bacopoulou, Flora, additional, Kassari, Penio, additional, Papadopoulou, Marina, additional, Mastorakos, George, additional, and Charmandari, Evangelia, additional

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2023
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7. Increased circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) in prepubertal children born prematurely: a possible link between prematurity and cardiovascular risk

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Markopoulou, Panagiota Papanikolaou, Eleni Loukopoulou, Sofia and Galina, Paraskevi Mantzou, Aimilia Siahanidou, Tania

Subjects
embryonic structures, cardiovascular system, circulatory and respiratory physiology
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BackgroundEndothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) ensure vascular integrity and neovascularization. No studies have investigated EPCs in preterm-born children beyond infancy.MethodsOne hundred and thirty-six prepubertal children were enrolled: 63 preterm and 73 born at term (controls). Circulating CD34(+)/VEGFR-2(+)/CD45(-) and CD34(+)/VEGFR-2(+)/CD45dim EPCs were measured in preterm-born children compared to controls. Body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), neck circumference, systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP, respectively), fasting glucose, insulin, lipid profile, common carotid and abdominal aortic intima-media thickness (cIMT and aIMT, respectively), endothelium-dependent brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD), and echocardiographic parameters were also assessed.ResultsCirculating CD34(+)/VEGFR-2(+)/CD45(-) and CD34(+)/VEGFR-2(+)/CD45dim EPCs were significantly higher in preterm-born children compared to controls (p

Published
2021

14. Combined epicardial and transvenous pacing in an infant with operated complex congenital heart disease and permanent epicardial DDD pacemaker as treatment of dysfunction of the epicardial ventricular lead.

Author

Loukopoulou SN, Eleftherakis NG, Kourtesis AN, and Thanopoulos BD

Subjects
Electrodes, Implanted adverse effects, Equipment Failure, Heart Block complications, Heart Defects, Congenital complications, Humans, Infant, Male, Pericardium, Subclavian Vein, Syncope etiology, Cardiac Pacing, Artificial methods, Heart Block therapy, Heart Defects, Congenital surgery, Pacemaker, Artificial adverse effects
Abstract

A male child, 18 months old, with interrupted aortic arch, ventricular septal defect, postoperative complete heart block and an epicardial DDD pacemaker since the age of nine months, was admitted to our department because of episodes of syncope. At first the episodes were considered as epilepsy and the child was given antiepileptic drugs. Twenty-four-hour ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring revealed dysfunction of the pacemaker due to exit block in the ventricular lead, while the atrial lead was functioning properly. The young patient was treated by preservation of the epicardial atrial lead and implantation of the ventricular lead via the transvenous route. The ventricular lead was then connected through a subcutaneous channel to the pulse generator in an abdominal pocket.

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2009

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