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PubMed1979

School screening for scoliosis in Athens.

A randomly selected sample of 3494 children evenly representing a total population of 37 391 schoolchildren aged between eleven and twelve was screened for idiopathic scoliosis by the bending test. Ten per cent of the children showed clinical evidence of scoliosis and 6.4 per cent had positive radiological findings. Small curves were equally distributed between the two sexes, while large ones were more common in girls. Children with fair hair and blue eyes showed a higher percentage of positive findings than children with a dark complexion. A group of 112 children with curves between 7 and 16 degrees were followed up for an average of nineteen months. The pattern and evolution of these curves showed their close relationship to established scoliosis. Potential factors of instability and deterioration of the curves were evaluated.

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PubMed2005

5th European conference on Progress in Vaccination Against Cancer. 20-21 September 2005, Athens, Greece.

'Progress In Vaccination Against Cancer' (PIVAC) examines the latest advances in tumour immunology and their clinical applications. Previous conferences were held in Blaubeuren, London, Cambridge, Oxford, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Nottingham and Freudenstadt-Lauterbad in the Black Forest. The residential format of these conferences encourages interactions between participants and permits a focussed discussion on the new data and concepts. The main topic of the 5th European PIVAC was the induction and maintenance of an active immune memory against cancer. The results of clinical trials with different cancer vaccines were presented. The correlations between tumour regression and immune response, the role of innate and specific immunity, and ways of enhancing these two arms of the antitumour response were explored. Particular attention was devoted to the presence and function of regulatory T cells as a prelude to improving the design of these trials and understanding why they have produced unimpressive results. A consensus was reached on the need to combine vaccination with strategies for suppressing regulatory T cell function. The immune-escape mechanisms of tumours and the emerging importance of some newly discovered mutations were also fully discussed.

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PubMed2004

A psychoanalytically oriented combined treatment approach for severely disturbed borderline patients: the Athens project.

A psychoanalytically oriented combined treatment is considered beneficial for severely disturbed borderline patients, especially during an acute crisis. The proposed treatment comprises hospitalization and specialized psychotherapeutic inpatient treatment, individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and psychiatric management. It is important to take into account that during inpatient treatment, projective identifications and splitting mechanisms are activated, involving different members of the therapeutic personnel or other patients. The mental health team--the psychiatrist, the nurses, the assigned psychotherapist, and other members of the therapeutic personnel--should work together in the context of teamwork in order to explore transference and countertransference manifestations. This function promotes empathy and understanding of the patient's inner difficulties. A combined treatment approach can help the patient stabilize his or her condition and develop awareness and motivation for undertaking long-term treatment and individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy, with the prospect that therapy will be maintained after the patient's discharge.

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Renal medicine and renal patients at the Seventh I.K.A. Hospital of Athens.

Clinical nephrologists are generally aware that bringing chronic renal treatment to all patients who need it is both an economic and a medical challenge. On the medical side, there is the task of giving the most appropriate form of treatment to the individual patient and, so far as it lies within the power of the physician and his staff, of supporting and motivating the patient to maintain a reasonably satisfying and productive life despite the stress of illness and treatment. On the economic side, there are a number of issues concerning the generation of funds for treatment, the utilization of various categories of medical and nonmedical personnel, and the geographic deployment of treatment resources of varying levels of expertise and intensity. For example, the hospital facilities for diabetic dialysis patients who can anticipate periodic complications are more extensive than the more limited back-up facilities needed for well-stabilized "healthy" patients who are managing domiciliary dialysis. These questions have an international aspect, as the nephrology professionals and health administrators in many nations seek to expand their treatment programs for chronic treatment of renal failure.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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