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Colonic tuberculosis mimicking Crohn's disease: case reportConstantinos Chatzicostas
Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Heraklion, Crete, Greece
BMC Gastroenterol 2:10. 2002..Intestinal tuberculosis is a diagnostic challenge, especially when active pulmonary infection is absent. It may mimic many other abdominal diseases...
Primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune cholangitis are not associated with coeliac disease in CreteCostantinos Chatzicostas
Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Heraklion, PO Box 1352, Heraklion 71110, Crete, Greece
BMC Gastroenterol 2:5. 2002..However, in other studies the association has not been confirmed. There have been no formal attempts to systematically evaluate patients with autoimmune cholangitis for coeliac disease...
Factors associated with disease evolution in Greek patients with inflammatory bowel diseaseConstantinos Chatzicostas
Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Rethymnon, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece
BMC Gastroenterol 6:21. 2006..We aimed to study disease evolution in Crohn's disease B1 patients and ulcerative colitis patients with proctitis and left-sided colitis at diagnosis...
A comparison of Child-Pugh, APACHE II and APACHE III scoring systems in predicting hospital mortality of patients with liver cirrhosisConstantinos Chatzicostas
Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
BMC Gastroenterol 3:7. 2003..The aim of this study was to assess the prognostic accuracy of Child-Pugh and APACHE II and III scoring systems in predicting short-term, hospital mortality of patients with liver cirrhosis...
Balthazar computed tomography severity index is superior to Ranson criteria and APACHE II and III scoring systems in predicting acute pancreatitis outcomeConstantinos Chatzicostas
Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
J Clin Gastroenterol 36:253-60. 2003..The Balthazar score is superior to other scoring systems in predicting acute pancreatitis severity and pancreatic necrosis. However the Ranson and APACHE scores perform slightly better with respect to organ failure prediction...
Comparison of Ranson, APACHE II and APACHE III scoring systems in acute pancreatitisConstantinos Chatzicostas
Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Pancreas 25:331-5. 2002..Ranson criteria proved to be as powerful a prognostic model as the more complicated APACHE II and III scoring systems, but with the disadvantage of a 24-hour delay...
Hidradenitis suppurativa associated with Crohn's disease and spondyloarthropathy: response to anti-TNF therapyMaria Roussomoustakaki
Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Heraklion, University General Hospital, PO Box 1352, 71110, Crete, Heraklion, Greece
J Gastroenterol 38:1000-4. 2003..The pathogenetic aspects according to the literature and response to the various therapeutic measures applied are also presented...
