ACHAIKE IATRIKE Volume 36, Issue 2, October 2017 ACHAIKE IATRIKE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN GREECE AND PELOPONNESUS EDITORIAL BOARD OF ACHAIKE IATRIKE Editor In-Chief Professor Nicholas G Kounis Department of Medical Sciences, Patras Highest Institute of Education and Technology 7 Aratou Street, Queen Olgas Square, Patras 262 21, Greece, E-mail:
[email protected] Deputy Editors Assοciate Professor, Stavros Kakkos, Vascular Surgery Assistant Professor, Stelios Assimakopoulos, Internal Medicine Assistant Editor Dimitris Velissaris, Assistant Professor, Medicine Lydia Leonidou, Attending Physician, Medicine Members of the Editorial Committee Associate Professor Helen Gelastopoulou, Andreas Mitropoulos, Rheumatology Public Health and Epidemiology George Tsiros, General Practice Ioannis Karaindros, Attending Physician, Medicine SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Professor Theodoros Alexandridis, Endocrinologist, Patras, GR Professor Fotios Kalfarentzos, Surgeon, Patras, GR Professor Dimitrios Alexopoulos, Cardiologist, Patras, GR Dr Constantinos Karogiannis, Cardiologist, Patras, GR Vasilios Alivizatos, Consultant Surgeon, Patras, GR Fotios Karvelas, Consultant Surgeon, Patras, GR Assoc. Professor George Antonakis, Obstetrician-Gynaicologist, Patras, GR George Krokidas, Consultant Paediatrician, Patras, GR George Asimakopoulos, Consultant Physician, Sparta, GR Panagiotis Korovesis, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Patras, GR Panagiotis Christopoulos, Consultant Neurologist-Psychiatrist, Pirgos, GR Professor Stefanos Mantagos,