Ismene Dontas

Synthetic Bone Substitutes in Combination with Growth Factors for Maxillary Sinus Floor Augmentation: A Mini-review

Cleopatra C. Nacopoulos, Ismene Dontas, Efstathios Chronopoulos, Lubna Khaldi, Anna Maria Vesala, Ioannis K. Triantafyllopoulos & Nikolaos Papaioannou · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2015

Objective: Growth factors have been applied in maxillary sinus augmentation with clinically successful results. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the effectiveness of growth factors in combination with various synthetic scaffolds. Methods and Materials: A systematic revi...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJMMR/2015/15613

Neurologic Outcome after Asphyxial Cardiac Arrest in a Juvenile Porcine Model: Comparison of Epinephrine and Vasopressin, Alone or Combined with Nitroglycerin

Nektaria Lekka, Theofilos M. Kolettis, Giolanda Varvarousi, Theodoros Lappas, Sotirios Goulas, Georgios Agrogiannis, Ismene Dontas, Evaggelia Kouskouni, Despina Perrea, Nikolaos Kordalis, Theodoros Xanthos & Lila Papadimitriou · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2016

Aims: Hypoxemic encephalopathy is a devastating complication of asphyxial cardiac arrest in children, commonly occurring despite prompt resuscitation. Epinephrine, incorporated in present algorithms, may contribute to unfavorable outcome by causing excessive vasoconstriction, but...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJMMR/2016/27850