Constantinos Sfagos
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
36 Papers
190 Citations
Constantinos Sfagos is an academic researcher from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Multiple sclerosis. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 36 publications. Previous affiliations of Constantinos Sfagos include Athens State University.
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Papers
Serum ferritin, transferrin and soluble transferrin receptor levels in multiple sclerosis patients.
Constantinos Sfagos,Alexandros Makis,Aristeidis Chaidos,Eleftheria Hatzimichael,Androniki Dalamaga,Katerina K. Kosma,Konstantinos L. Bourantas +6 more
TL;DR: The increased serum sTFR and ferritin levels in nonanaemic MS patients with active disease reflect the increased iron turnover and may indicate active inflammation with ongoing oxidative damage that is not detectable by history or examination.
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Influence of anxiety and reported stressful life events on relapses in multiple sclerosis: a prospective study.
Constantin Potagas,Charalampos Mitsonis,Laurence Watier,Georges Dellatolas,A Retziou,Panagiotis Mitropoulos,Constantinos Sfagos,Dimitris Vassilopoulos +7 more
TL;DR: Anxiety and self-reported stressful events may in fact be two measures of the same underlying emotional factor, which plays an important role on the course of the disease, in addition to episodes of infection.
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Increased plasma homocysteine levels in patients with multiple sclerosis and depression.
Nikolaos Triantafyllou,Maria-Eleftheria Evangelopoulos,Vasilios K. Kimiskidis,Evangelia Kararizou,Fotini Boufidou,Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis,Melina Siamouli,Chrysoula Nikolaou,Constantinos Sfagos,Nikolaos Vlaikidis,Dimitrios Vassilopoulos +10 more
TL;DR: Moderately disabled MS patients with elevated Hcy levels are particularly prone to develop depressive symptomatology, and the prognostic and therapeutic implications of this novel finding are still unclear.
APOE ε4 is associated with impaired verbal learning in patients with MS
Georgios Koutsis,Marios Panas,Erasmia Giogkaraki,Constantin Potagas,Georgia Karadima,Constantinos Sfagos,Dimitris Vassilopoulos +6 more
TL;DR: An association of APOE ε4 with impaired verbal learning in patients with multiple sclerosis was found and was not observed in other cognitive domains assessed by the Rao's Brief Repeatable Battery.
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•Journal Article
Plasma glutamate and glycine levels in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Elisabeth Andreadou,Elisabeth Kapaki,Panagiotis Kokotis,George P. Paraskevas,Nikolaos Katsaros,Georgia Libitaki,Olga Petropoulou,Vassilios Zis,Constantinos Sfagos,Demetrios Vassilopoulos +9 more
TL;DR: The above results are compatible with the "glutamate hypothesis" of ALS and suggest that the spinal and bulbar-onset subtypes of the disease may be biochemically different.
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