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List of works by Theodoros Dimitroulas

A case of sarcoidosis-associated pulmonary hypertension masquerading as chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

scientific article published in January 2018

A critical view on cardiovascular risk in systemic sclerosis.

scientific article

AB 1. Prevalence and etiology of reduced exercise capacity among patients with scleroderma.

scientific article published in November 2012

Adrenocorticotropic hormone: an effective "natural" biologic therapy for acute gout?

scientific article published on 26 July 2020

Arterial stiffness correlates with progressive nailfold capillary microscopic changes in systemic sclerosis: results from a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Associations between asymmetric dimethylarginine, homocysteine, and the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T polymorphism (rs1801133) in rheumatoid arthritis.

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Asymmetric dimethylarginine as a surrogate marker of endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular risk in patients with systemic rheumatic diseases.

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Asymmetric dimethylarginine is not associated with subendocardial viability ratio in Rheumatoid Arthritis

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

Autoimmune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: Two Rare Cases Associated with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis.

scientific article published on 24 July 2017

B-type natriuretic peptide in rheumatic diseases: a cardiac biomarker or a sophisticated acute phase reactant?

scientific article published on 28 February 2012

Biologic Drugs as Analgesics for the Management of Low Back Pain and Sciatica

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Biologic drugs as analgesics for the management of osteoarthritis

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Biologic therapies and systemic bone loss in rheumatoid arthritis.

scientific article published on 29 March 2013

Biomarkers in systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary arterial hypertension

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Can cardiovascular magnetic resonance prompt early cardiovascular/rheumatic treatment in autoimmune rheumatic diseases? Current practice and future perspectives

scientific article published on 07 March 2018

Can we wean patients with inflammatory arthritis from biological therapies?

scientific article published on 19 October 2019

Cancer risk in systemic sclerosis: identifying risk and managing high-risk patients

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

Cardiac Tissue Characterization and Imaging in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases

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Cardiac and muscular involvement in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: noninvasive diagnostic assessment and the role of cardiovascular and skeletal magnetic resonance imaging.

scientific article published on January 2014

Cardiac magnetic resonance predicts ventricular arrhythmias in scleroderma: the Scleroderma Arrhythmia Clinical Utility Study (SAnCtUS)

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Identifies High-Risk Systemic Sclerosis Patients with Normal Echocardiograms and Provides Incremental Prognostic Value

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Cardiovascular disease in the Systemic Vasculitides

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging pattern at the time of diagnosis of treatment naïve patients with connective tissue diseases

scientific article published on February 2017

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in rheumatology: Current status and recommendations for use.

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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the diagnosis and management of cardiac and vascular involvement in the systemic vasculitides

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis: assessment, management and next steps

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Clinical outcome of ultrasound-guided steroid injections for chronic shoulder pain.

scientific article published on 18 January 2013

Clinical remission following treatment with tumour necrosis factor-alpha antagonists is not accompanied by changes in asymmetric dimethylarginine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 20 July 2012

Combined Brain-Heart Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Patients with Cardiac Symptoms: Hypothesis Generating Insights from a Cross-sectional Study

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Combined brain and heart magnetic resonance imaging in systemic vasculitides: fiction or real need?

Combined brain/heart magnetic resonance imaging in systemic lupus erythematosus

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Comorbidity burden in systemic sclerosis: beyond disease-specific complications

scientific article published on 12 July 2019

Comparable or higher prevalence of comorbidities in antiphospholipid syndrome vs rheumatoid arthritis: a multicenter, case-control study

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Comparison of ambulatory central hemodynamics and arterial stiffness in patients with diabetic and non-diabetic CKD

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Complementary role of cardiovascular imaging and laboratory indices in early detection of cardiovascular disease in systemic lupus erythematosus.

scientific article

Cumulative inflammation associates with asymmetric dimethylarginine in rheumatoid arthritis: a 6 year follow-up study

scientific article published on 03 September 2014

Current understanding and future perspectives of brain-heart-kidney axis in psoriatic arthritis

scientific article published on 27 June 2020

Derangement of hemostasis in rheumatoid arthritis: association with demographic, inflammatory and metabolic factors

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Dickkopf-1 is downregulated early and universally in the skin of patients with systemic sclerosis despite normal circulating levels

Early detection of cardiac involvement in systemic sclerosis assessed by tissue-Doppler echocardiography: relationship with neurohormonal activation and endothelial dysfunction

scientific article published in March 2010

Edema and fibrosis imaging by cardiovascular magnetic resonance: how can the experience of Cardiology be best utilized in rheumatological practice?

scientific article published on 23 January 2014

Effects of renin-angiotensin system inhibition on left atrial function of hypertensive patients: an echocardiographic tissue deformation imaging study

scientific article published on 28 January 2010

Endothelial injury in rheumatoid arthritis: a crosstalk between dimethylarginines and systemic inflammation

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Fever and temporal headache in a 70-year-old male with presumed large vessels vasculitis

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Genetic regulation of dimethylarginines and endothelial dysfunction in rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

Genetic variations in the alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase 2 (AGXT2) gene and dimethylarginines levels in rheumatoid arthritis.

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Heart involvement in rheumatoid arthritis: multimodality imaging and the emerging role of cardiac magnetic resonance

scientific article published on 17 June 2013

Imaging Patterns of Cardiovascular Involvement in Mixed Connective Tissue Disease Evaluated by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

scientific article published in January 2015

Imaging modalities for the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension in systemic sclerosis.

scientific article published on 07 February 2012

Immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced musculoskeletal manifestations

scientific article published on 02 August 2020

Immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced musculoskeletal manifestations. A multicentre prospective study

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

In vivo microvascular and macrovascular endothelial function is not associated with circulating dimethylarginines in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective analysis of the DRACCO cohort

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Incidence, risk factors and validation of the RABBIT score for serious infections in a cohort of 1557 patients with rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Individualised exercise improves endothelial function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

scientific article published on 31 July 2013

Inflammatory bowel diseases and spondyloarthropathies: From pathogenesis to treatment

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Infliximab as a treatment option for patients with rheumatoid arthritis and primary biliary cirrhosis.

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

Is There a Brain/Heart Interaction in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Seronegative Spondyloartropathies? A Combined Brain/Heart Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals the Answer

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Lack of association between polymorphisms of thrombogenic genes and disease susceptibility in rheumatoid arthritis.

scientific article published on 31 March 2012

Left atrial volume and N-terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide are associated with elevated pulmonary artery pressure in patients with systemic sclerosis

scientific article published on 5 June 2010

Limitations of the findings regarding the relationship between N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide and systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary arterial hypertension: comment on the article by Allanore et al.

scientific article published in July 2008

Mediterranean Journal of Rheumatology December 2017 Highlights

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Mediterranean Journal of Rheumatology December 2018 Highlights

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Mediterranean Journal of Rheumatology December 2019 Highlights

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Micro- and macrovascular treatment targets in scleroderma heart disease

scientific article published on January 2014

Microcirculatory function deteriorates with advancing stages of chronic kidney disease independently of arterial stiffness and atherosclerosis

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Molecular and cellular pathways as treatment targets for biologic therapies in systemic sclerosis

scientific article published on January 2015

Multicenter Cross-sectional Study of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Greece: Results from a cohort of 2.491 patients

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Multimodality imaging and the emerging role of cardiac magnetic resonance in autoimmune myocarditis

scientific article published on May 19, 2012

N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in systemic sclerosis related pulmonary arterial hypertension under bosentan treatment

scientific article published on 9 August 2008

N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide levels are elevated in patients with acute ischemic stroke

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

N-terminal probrain natriuretic peptide as a biochemical marker in the evaluation of bosentan treatment in systemic-sclerosis-related pulmonary arterial hypertension

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Natriuretic peptides in systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary arterial hypertension.

scientific article published on 17 June 2009

Neurohormonal activation in patients with systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary arterial hypertension

scientific article published on 7 November 2006

Neuropathic pain in osteoarthritis: a review of pathophysiological mechanisms and implications for treatment.

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Novel biomarkers for early targeted and individualized treatment in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Novel insights into the role of inflammasomes in autoimmune and metabolic rheumatic diseases

scientific article published on 04 June 2018

Osteoarthritis pain has a significant neuropathic component: an exploratory in vivo patient model.

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Pathophysiology and imaging of heart failure in women with autoimmune rheumatic diseases

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Peripheral Microangiopathy in Patients with Precapillary Pulmonary Hypertension: Correlation with Cardiac Function and Patients' Functional Capacity. Study Design and Rationale

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Phenotyping Exercise Limitation in Systemic Sclerosis: The Use of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing.

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Platelets in Systemic Sclerosis: the Missing Link Connecting Vasculopathy, Autoimmunity, and Fibrosis?

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Practical Issues in Managing Systemic Inflammatory Disorders During the COVID-19 Pandemic

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Predictors and long-term outcome in Greek adults with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a 17-year continuous follow-up study

scientific article published in November 2017

Predictors of asymmetric dimethylarginine levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the role of insulin resistance

scientific article published on 14 January 2013

Prevalence of comorbidities in systemic sclerosis versus rheumatoid arthritis: a comparative, multicenter, matched-cohort study

scholarly article by Stylianos Panopoulos et al published 4 December 2018 in Arthritis Research and Therapy

Primary Sjögren's Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease

scientific article published on 29 January 2020

Prospects of using cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the identification of arrhythmogenic substrate in autoimmune rheumatic diseases

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Connective Tissue Disorders: The emerging role of screening and early diagnosis. A position paper for Greek Rheumatologists

scientific article published on 29 June 2019

Pyoderma gangrenosum and pyogenic arthritis presenting as severe sepsis in a rheumatoid arthritis patient treated with golimumab

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Relationship between dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase gene variants and asymmetric dimethylarginine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 27 August 2014

Rheumatoid arthritis: an autoimmune disease with female preponderance and cardiovascular risk equivalent to diabetes mellitus: role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance.

scientific article published on January 2014

Scleroderma Renal Crisis Accompanied by New-Onset Pulmonary Hypertension: An Acute Systemic Endothelial Injury? Case Report and Literature Review

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Significance of serum uric acid in pulmonary hypertension due to systemic sclerosis: a pilot study

scientific article published on 25 July 2010

Subclinical atherosclerosis in systemic sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis: a comparative matched-cohort study

scientific article published on 08 August 2020

Symmetric Dimethylarginine Is Not Associated with Cumulative Inflammatory Load or Classical Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A 6-Year Follow-Up Study

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Symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) serum levels in rheumatoid arthritis: correlations with insulin resistance and disease activity scores.

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

Systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary hypertension: unique characteristics and future treatment targets

scientific article published on January 2012

Targeting very early systemic sclerosis: a case-based review

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

The Doubled-Edged Sword of T1-Mapping in Systemic Sclerosis-A Comparison with Infectious Myocarditis Using Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

scientific article published on 24 May 2020

The Role of Statins in Disease Modification and Cardiovascular Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

The presence of diabetes mellitus further impairs structural and functional capillary density in patients with chronic kidney disease

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

The role of multimodality imaging in the evaluation of Takayasu arteritis.

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

The role of nailfoldcapillaroscopy in the assessment of internal organ involvement in Systemic Sclerosis: A critical review.

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Treatment patterns and achievement of the treat-to-target goals in a real-life rheumatoid arthritis patient cohort: data from 1317 patients

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Why currently used diagnostic techniques for heart failure in rheumatoid arthritis are not enough: the challenge of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging

scientific article published on January 2014