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VOLUME 39 • ISSUE 1 • APRIL - JUNE 2020 AchaikiOFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERNIatriki GREECE AND PELOPONNESUS ISSN: 1106-3319 ISSN (ON LINE): 1792-3018 ACHAIKI IATRIKI OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN GREECE AND PELOPONNESUS (IEDEP) GENERAL INFORMATION ISSN Print Edition: 1106-3319 Journal Homepage: http://www.iedep.gr/ ISSN Electronic Edition: 1792-3018 NLM Unique ID: 9802550 Journal citation: Achaiki Iatriki is published on behalf access to its scientific contents and authors are not of the Journal of the Medical Society of Western charged for submission, processing or publication Greece and Peloponnesus (IEDEP), representing the of the manuscripts. Society’s official Journal. Please cite articles of the Copyright: © 2020 Medical Society of Western Greece Journal as: Author names. Title of article. Ach Iatriki and Peloponnesus (IEDEP) year;volume:pages. Abstracting and indexing services: Achaiki Iatriki Aims and scope: The journal publishes original papers is abstracted/indexed in the following databases: on clinical and basic research from all areas of the Mulford Health Science Library, Index Copernicus, health sciences including healthcare. Achaiki Iatriki Google Scholar, the Greek IATROTEK and National is an open access journal. It provides immediate free Library of Medicine. GOVERNING BOARD OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN GREECE AND PELOPONNESUS (2019 - 2022) President: P. Dousdampanis Vice-President: N. Mastronikolis Secretary - General: I. Ntouvas Secretary - Special: C. Triantos Treasurer: N.G. Kounis Members: K. Akinosoglou S. Assimakopoulos N. Charokopos C. Gogos Ε. Jelastopulu N. Makris G. Tsiros I. Tsolakis MEDICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN GREECE AND PELOPONNESUS 42 Votsi Street, Patras 26221, Greece Tel: +30 2610 279579, Fax: +30 2610 220518 email: [email protected] Publisher Editor-in-Chief Medical Society of the Western Greece Christos Triantos and Peloponnesus email: [email protected] ACHAIKI IATRIKI OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN GREECE AND PELOPONNESUS (IEDEP) EDITORIAL BOARD OF ACHAIKI IATRIKI Editor In-Chief Assistant Professor Christos Triantos Department of Medicine, School of Health Sciences University of Patras, Patras, 26504, Greece, E-mail: [email protected] Associate Editor-in-Chief Professor Charalampos Gogos, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Associate Editors Assistant Professor Stelios Assimakopoulos, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Dr. Periklis Dousdampanis, Hemodialysis Unit Kyanos Stavros Patras, Achaia, Greece Associate Professor Spilios Manolakopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece Assistant Professor Emmanouil Sinakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Professor Emeritus Nicholas G Kounis, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Patras, Greece Emerity Editors Professor Emeritus Konstantinos Chrysanthopoulos, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Professor Emeritus Ioannis Tsolakis, University of Patras, Patras, Greece EDITORIAL BOARD Assistant Professor Karolina Akinosoglou, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Assistant Professor Georgios Androutsopoulos, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Dr. Christina Chrysochou, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece Associate Professor Dimitrios Daoussis, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Assistant Professor Sotirios Fouzas, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Professor Sophia Georgiou, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Associate Professor Georgios Glantzounis, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece Associate Professor Vasilios Grosomanidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Professor Eleni Jelastopulu, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Dr. Katerina Karaivazoglou, Day Centre for Children with Autism Spectrum and other Developmental Disorders, Messolonghi, Greece Assistant Professor Kiriakos Karkoulias, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Associate Professor Konstantinos Katsanos, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece Professor Dimitrios N Kiortsis, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece Assistant Professor Efstratios Koletsis, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Associate Professor Konstantinos Kostikas, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece ACHAIKI IATRIKI OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN GREECE AND PELOPONNESUS (IEDEP) Professor Evaggelos Liatsikos, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Professor Markos Marangos, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Associate Professor Nikolaos Mastronikolis, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Dr. Marina Michalaki, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece Professor Haralampos Milionis, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece Dr. Konstantinos Moulakakis, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece Professor Athanasia Mouzaki, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Dr. Ioannis Ntouvas, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece Assistant Professor Marios Papasotiriou, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Dr. Vasilios Papavasiliou, Sismanogleio-Amalia Fleming General Hospital, Athens, Greece Associate Professor Aikaterini Patsatsi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Associate Professor Charalampos Pontikoglou, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece Associate Professor Nikolaos Sipsas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece Associate Professor George Skroubis, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Associate Professor Elena Solomou, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Dr. Ioulia Syrokosta Stathopoulou, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece Professor Konstantinos Thomopoulos, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Associate Professor Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece Professor Gregorios Vogiatzis, University of Patras, Patras, Greece Assistant Professor Thomas Vrekoussis, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece Dr. Vasileios Zavvos, Center for Diagnosis, Treatment & Research on Kidney Diseases, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD Professor Shomron Ben-Horin, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel Professor Emeritus Nick Bouras, King’s College, London, UK Dr. Vicent Hernandez, Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain Professor Konstantinos N. Lazaridis, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA Professor Keith Lindor, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA Senior Lecturer Gerasimos Sykiotis, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland Professor Theoharis C Theoharides, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant Emmanouil Tsochatzis, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK ACHAIKI IATRIKI Quarterly Official Journal of the Medical Society of Western Greece And Peloponnesus (IEDEP) ACHAIKI IATRIKI Quarterly Official Journal of the Medical Society of Western Greece And Peloponnesus (IEDEP) CONTENTS Letter from the Editor ...................................................................................................................................................... 6 Εditorials COVID-19 and the Liver .................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Efthymios P Tsounis, Stelios F Assimakopoulos, Christos Triantos Cardio-oncoimmunology: An emerging medical discipline ..................................................................................................11 Nicholas G. Kounis, Ioanna Koniari, Grigorios Tsigkas Intermittent Claudication (IC) in young adults .........................................................................................................................15 Ioannis Ntouvas, Chrisanthi Papageorgopoulou, Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos Research Articles Broad autism phenotype traits in parents of children with developmental disorders .....................................................18 Katerina Karaivazoglou, Ermioni Papadaki, Sotirios Kotsopoulos Prevalence of anti-HCV antibodies and risk factors among prison inmates in Southwestern Greece ................................................................................................................................................................23 Evanthia Tourkochristou, Georgios Beskos, Stavros Kanaloupitis, Dionisia Mihalakopoulou, Katerina Κaraivazoglou, Konstantinos Zisimopoulos, Ioanna Aggeletopoulou, Aggeliki Tsintoni, Konstantinos Thomopoulos, Harilaos Zannidis, Christos Triantos Reviews The biology of SARS-CoV-2 and the ensuing COVID-19 .........................................................................................................29 Spyridoula Anastasopoulou, Athanasia Mouzaki Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Review of the Current Literature........................................................................36 Ioulia Sirokosta, Mary Stathopoulou Case Report A rare cause of abdominal pain ..................................................................................................................................................45 Christos Konstantakis, Spyros Spyropoulos, Vasileios Margaritis Volume 39, Issue 1 | April 2020 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR ACHAIKI IATRIKI | 2020; 39(1):6–7 “ Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease” Hippocrates Dear colleagues The Governing Board of The Medical Society of and the mechanisms it uses to adhere and enter the host Western Greece and Peloponnesus (IEDEP) honored me cell. 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