Ιnter-university harmonization for the development of subspecialties of consultation-liaison:<br /> Psychiatry, old age psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. Consensus statement of the Hellenic College of Academic Psychiatry <br /> <br />

Τhe voluminous amount of new knowledge and the strong academic standing of consultation-liaison psychiatry, old age and forensic psychiatry lead to their establishment as subspecialties of psychiatry in many countries. I...

Favism A brief history from the "abstain from beans" of Pythagoras to the present

Favism is a form of hemolytic anemia and jaundice following the intake of fava beans and other legumes and various drugs. It is caused by a hereditary abnormality of the red cell enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase...

Acute hepatitis as a manifestation of Cushing's disease

Clinical manifestations of the pituitary dependent endogenous hypercortisolism syndrome (Cushing’s disease) are related to both the degree and the duration of hypercortisolism. In acute onset severe hypercortisolism (cha...

Recombinant polypeptides of the acetylcholine receptor in the development<br /> of an antigen-specific therapy for myasthenia gravis through the immunoadsorption <br /> of anti-receptor antibodies from myasthenic patients

OBJECTIVE The pathology of the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis is largely explained by autoantibodies produced against the human muscle acetylcholine receptor. Plasmapheresis offers a significant therapeutic option...

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