ORGANIZATION

Organizers: INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL MEDICINE & HEPATOLOGY, LARISSA, GREECE

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE & RESEARCH LABORATORY OF INTERNAL MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY MEDICAL SCHOOL, LARISSA, GREECE Director: Professor G.N. Dalekos

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (BOARD MEMBERS OF THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL MEDICINE & HEPATOLOGY): President: G.N. Dalekos Members: K. Krapis K.P. Makaritsis C. Mandros G. Ntaios

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE & FACULTY MEMBERS M. Akova S. Georgiadou M.N. Manoussakis M. Samson A. Alexopoulou S. Georgopoulos C. Marañón D. Sereni Q. Anstee E. Giannitsioti H. Mattle P.P. Sfikakis I. Baskozos L. Guillevin F. Menichetti K. Spengos M. Blank C. Hadjichristodoulou D.L. Menucci A. Stefos S. Blot S.J. Hadziyannis N. Montano D. Strbian Y. de Boer Α. Hatzitolios P. Montravers H. Toplak E. Boutati G. Hirschfield V. Mouchtouri Ε.V. Tsianos M. Burnier T. Hofmann H.Μ. Moutsopoulos E.A. Tsochatzis H.R. van Buuren G.K. Hovingh P. Nilsson S. Unal L. Christou C. Jamin G. Ntaios P. Valensi G.L. Daikos J. Jordan C.J. Packard Κ. Vemmos E. Cholongitas Ν.L. Katsilambros R. Pálsson D. Vergani G.N. Dalekos M. Kohrmann N. Papanas P.G. Vlachoyiannopoulos M. Deutch J. Koskinas G. Papatheodoridis M. Voulgarelis M. Dichgans V. Kotsis D. Papazoglou H. Wedemeyer G.D. Dimitriadis C. Labropoulou-Karatza V. Papavasileiou C. Weimar G. Dimopoulos V. Lambadiari A. Pares C. Yurdaydin Μ.Α. Dimopoulos R. Liberal T.R. Pedersen Κ. Zachou S. Dourakis G. Lip G. Petrikkos A. Zanchetti M. Ekstedt J.A. Lopes J. Putaala D. Ziegler Μ. Elisaf Κ.P. Makaritsis V. Ratziu M. Rizzo J.M. Ferro Ε. Maltezos Y. Renaudineau D. Samonakis A. Floreani K. Makaritsis Ε.I. Rigopoulou Ν.K. Gatselis P.M. Mannucci Κ. Ritis

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In cooperation with:

HELLENIC ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE LIVER

HELLENIC STROKE ORGANIZATION

BOARD OF THE HELLENIC ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE LIVER President: G.N. Dalekos Vice President: G. Papatheodoridis Gen. Secretary: E. Cholongitas Treasurer: A. Alexopoulou Member: C. Triantos

Endorsed by:

EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

FOUNDATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE IN EUROPE

Under the auspices of: MINISTRY OF HEALTH, GREECE

UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY MEDICAL SCHOOL, LARISSA, GREECE

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09:00 - 10:30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS OP01-OP09 CARDIOVASCULAR AND METABOLIC DISEASES Chairpersons: Konstantinos P. Makaritsis (Larissa, Greece) Vasileios Papavasileiou (Leeds, UK)

OP01 DEVELOPMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR IMPLANTS UTILIZING THE HUMAN UMBILICAL ARTERY 1,4 1

Thursday, March 9, 2017 March Thursday, Panagiotis Mallis, Efstathios Michalopoulos, 2Michalis Katsimpoulas, 3Daniele Dipresa, 3Sotiris Korossis, 4Aggeliki Papapanagiotou, 1Catherine Stavropoulos-Giokas 1Hellenic Cord Blood Bank (HCBB), Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens, Greece 2Center of Clinical, Experimental Surgery and Translational Research, Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece 3Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany 4School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

OP02 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VITAMIN D LEVELS AND DIFFERENT CARDIOVASCULAR RISK SCORES IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS Ridvan Sivritepe, Sema Basat, Damla Ortaboz Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

OP03 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VITAMIN D LEVEL AND ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION IN MALE PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS 1Sema Basat, 1Rıdvan Sivritepe, 1Damla Ortaboz, 1Ecem Sevim Çalık, 2Eyüp Veli Küçük, 2Berkan Şimşek, 3Sabri Atay, 4Arzu Çalışgan 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Urology, University of Health Sciences Umraniye VALIDEducation ONLY and Research IF Hospital, PRESENTED Istanbul, Turkey 3Kartal Uğur Mumcu Family Healty Center, Istanbul, Turkey 4Medstats Analysis and Consulting Company, Istanbul, Turkey

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OP04 NON-VITAMIN-K-ANTAGONIST ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS VERSUS WARFARIN IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND PREVIOUS STROKE OR TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK 1George Ntaios, 2Vasileios Papavasileiou, 3Hans-Chris Diener, 4Konstantinos P. Makaritsis, 4Patrik Michel 1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2Stroke Service, Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching

Hospitals NHS Trust and Medical School, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 9, 2017 March Thursday, 3Department of Neurology and Stroke Center, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany 4Stroke Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

OP05 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN OSTEOARTHRITIS AND SARCOPENIA IN GERIATRIC PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS (T2DM) 1Sema Ucak, 1Rıdvan Sivritepe, 1Damla Ortaboz, 1Ecem Sevim Çalık, 2Sabri Atay, 3Arzu Çalışgan 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 2Kartal Uğur Mumcu Family Health Center, Istanbul, Turkey 3Medstats Consulting Limited Company, Istanbul, Turkey

OP06 AGE- AND SEX-SPECIFIC ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERISTICS AND OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS WITH EMBOLIC STROKE OF UNDETERMINED SOURCE 1George Ntaios, 2Gregory Y.H. Lip, 3Konstantinos Vemmos, 3Eleni Koroboki, 3Efstathios Manios, 3Anastasia Vemmou, 4Ana Rodríguez-Campello, 4Elisa Cuadrado-Godia, 4Jaume Roquer, 5Valentina Arnao, 5Valeria Caso, 5Maurizio Paciaroni, 6Exuperio Diez-Tejedor, 6Blanca Fuentes, 6Josefa Pérez Lucas, 7Antonio Arauz, 8Sebastian F. Ameriso, 8Lucía Pertierra, 8Maia Gómez-Schneider, 9Maximiliano A. Hawkes, 10Fabio Bandini, 11Beatriz Chavarria Cano, 11Ana Maria Iglesias Mohedano, 11Andrés García Pastor, 11Antonio Gil-Núñez, 12Jukka Putaala, VALID12,13Turgut Tatlisumak, ONLY 14Miguel IF PRESENTED A. Barboza, 1George Athanasakis, 15Fotios Gioulekas, 1Konstantinos Makaritsis, 1,16Vasileios Papavasileiou 1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2University of Birmingham Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK

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3Department of Clinical Therapeutics, Medical School of Athens, Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece 4Stroke Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital del Mar. Neurovascular Research Group, IMIM-Hospital del Mar (Institut Hospital del Mar d’Investigacions Mèdiques), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 5Stroke Unit, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy 6Department of Neurology and Stroke Center, La Paz University Hospital - Autónoma University of Madrid, IdiPAZ Health Research Thursday, March 9, 2017 March Thursday, Institute, Madrid, Spain 7Stroke Clinic. Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suárez, Mexico City, Mexico 8Department of Neurology, Institute for Neurological Research, FLENI, Buenos Aires, Argentina 9Department of Neurology, Division of Critical Care Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 10Department of Neurology, S. Paolo Hospital, Savona, Italy 11Vascular Neurology Section, Stroke Center, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, IiSGM Health Research Institute, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 12Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 13Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Neurology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden 14Neurosciences Department, Hospital Dr. Rafael A. Calderón Guardia, CCSS. University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica 15Sub-directorate of Informatics, Larissa General University Hospital, Larissa, Greece 16Stroke Service, Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Medical School, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

OP07 GENDER DIFFERENCES IN MORTALITY AMONG STATIN USERS AGED 80 YEARS OR MORE 1,2Dan Justo, 3Mark Tchernichovsky, 1Anjelika Kremer, 4Shany Sherman, 4Marina Ioffe,2,4 Haim Mayan 1Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics D, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel VALID2Sackler School ONLY of Medicine, IF PRESENTED Tel-Aviv University, Israel 3Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 4Department of Internal Medicine E, Sheba Medical Center, Tel- Hashomer, Israel

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OP08 EVALUATION OF THE URIC ACID AS SUBCLINICAL MALNUTRITION INDICATOR 1Guven Koc, 1Sibel Ocak Serin, 2Hakan Kocoglu, 2Yildiz Okuturlar, 1Ridvan Sivritepe, 1Tulay Eyupgiller, 3Gulay Turan, 1Sema Ucak Basat 1Department of Internal Medicine, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Internal Medicine, Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk

Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 9, 2017 March Thursday, 3Department of Internal Medicine, Private Safa Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

OP09 SCREENING FOR FABRY DISEASE IN TWO GREEK NEPHROLOGY DEPARTMENTS 1Christos Paliouras, 2Stamatia Kouzouka, 1Konstantinos Roufas, 1Giorgos Ntetskas, 1Fotini Lambrianou, 1Nikolaos Karvouniaris, 1Emmanouil Anastasakis 1Hematology Department of General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece 2Nephrology DepartmentVALID of General ONLY IFHospital PRESENTED of Kos, Kos, Greece

10:30 - 11:00 STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE Chairperson: Dimitrios Samonakis (Heraklion, Greece) Importance of European registries on rare liver diseases: The paradigm of autoimmune hepatitis Rodrigo Liberal (London, UK)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00 ROUND TABLE Hypolipidemic treatment: What is new? Chairperson: Moses Elisaf (Ioannina, Greece) Should we treat everyone above 60 years with a statin? Chris J. Packard (Glasgow, UK)

Familial hypercholesterolemia diagnosis and treatment: Can we perform better? G. Kees Hovingh (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

PCSK9 inhibition: What is hot in 2017? Terje Rolf Pedersen (Oslo, Norway)

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13:00 - 14:00 SYMPOSIUM Intensive blood pressure control Chairperson: Alberto Zanchetti (Milan, Italy) Pros Michel Burnier (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Cons

Thursday, March 9, 2017 March Thursday, Alberto Zanchetti (Milan, Italy)

14:00 - 14:30 SATELLITE LECTURE

14:30 - 16:00 Leisure time

16:00 - 17:30 ROUND TABLE Stroke etiology and management Hellenic Stroke Organization Chairpersons: Jose Ferro (Lisbon, Portugal) George Ntaios (Larissa, Greece) Stroke in the young Jukka Putaala (Helsinki, Finland)

Drug-induced stroke Jose Ferro (Lisbon, Portugal)

Can we predict thrombolysis-associated symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage? Daniel Strbian (Helsinki, Finland)

Management of intracranial artery stenosis Christian Weimar (Essen, Germany)

17:30 - 18:00 SATELLITE LECTURE Sponsored by

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18:00 - 19:30 ROUND TABLE Heart and stroke Hellenic Stroke Organization Chairpersons: Heinrich Mattle (Bern, Switzerland) Konstantinos Spengos (Athens, Greece) Patent foramen ovale in cryptogenic stroke: Closure, antiplatelets or anticoagulants?

Heinrich Mattle (Bern, Switzerland) 9, 2017 March Thursday,

Optimal strategy for detection of atrial fibrillation in patients with cryptogenic stroke Martin Kohrmann (Essen, Germany)

Acute treatment in patients with acute ischemic stroke treated with oral anticoagulants George Ntaios (Larissa, Greece)

19:30 - 19:45 Break

19:45 - 21:00 OPENING CEREMONY Welcome

Inaugural Lecture Improving health care by innovations and clinical research Daniel Sereni (Paris, France) President of the Foundation for the Development of Internal Medicine in Europe (FDIME)

21:00 WELCOME RECEPTION

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08:30 - 10:00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS OP10-OP18 GASTROENTEROLOGY/HEPATOLOGY (A) Chairpersons: Melanie Deutsch (Athens, Greece) Rodrigo Liberal (London, UK)

OP10 INTERFERON-INDUCED PROTEIN-10 (IP10) AT ENTECAVIR (ETV) OR TENOFOVIR (TDF) DISCONTINUATION IN NON- Friday, March 10, 2017 March Friday, CIRRHOTIC HBeAg-NEGATIVE CHRONIC HEPATITIS B (CHBe-) CANNOT PREDICT SUBSEQUENT RELAPSES. DARING-B: PROSPECTIVE GREEK STUDY 1Margarita Papatheodoridi, 2Emilia Hadziyannis, 3Eirini Rigopoulou, 3Kalliopi Zachou, 1Vasilis Xourafas, 3Aggeliki Lyberopoulou, 3Nikolaos K. Gatselis, 2Spilios Manolakopoulos, 3George N. Dalekos, 1George Papatheodoridis 1Department of Gastroenterology, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece 22nd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL OP11 CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH WILSON’S DISEASE IN A SINGLE-CENTER IN GREECE: LAST 3 DECADES OF EXPERIENCE Spyridon Savvanis, Maria Tampaki, Emmanouil Koullias, Melanie Deutsch, Emmanouil Manesis, John Koskinas Academic Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School of Athens, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece

OP12 CHARACTERISTICS OF GREEK MALE PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY BILIARY CHOLANGITIS (PBC) 1Kalliopi Azariadi, 1Vasiliki Ligoyra, 1Kalliopi Zachou, 1Pinelopi Arvaniti, 1Asterios Saitis, 1Nikolaos K. Gatselis, VALID2George K.ONLY Koukoulis, IF1George PRESENTED N. Dalekos 1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

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OP13 SEVERE ACUTE NON-A, NON-B, NON-C HEPATITIS WITH AUTOIMMUNE FEATURES: CONSIDER ACUTE HEPATITIS E VIRUS (HEV) INFECTION NOT JUST AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS (AIH) 1Kalliopi Azariadi, 1Pinelopi Arvaniti, 1Nikolaos K. Gatselis, 2George K. Koukoulis, 1George N. Dalekos, 1Kalliopi Zachou 1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Thessaly, 10, 2017 March Friday, Larissa, Greece

OP14 SERUM HUMAN BETA-DEFENSIN-1 IS AN ACCURATE PREDICTOR OF SHORT-TERM MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE-ON-CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE 1Danai Agiasotelli, 1Ilianna Mani, 1Larisa Vasilieva, 1Alexandra Alexopoulou, 1Emilia Hadziyannis, 2Dimitris Goukos, 2George L. Daikos, 1Spyros P. Dourakis 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 21st Department of Propedeutic Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL OP15 CHRONIC HEPATITIS C PATIENTS WITH GENOTYPE 5, TREATED WITH NEWER ANTIVIRAL DRUGS Giorgos Ntetskas, Vasileios Papastergiou, Eystathia Anastasiou, Nikitas Katsilis, Anna Katsili, Maria Stampori, Chrisostomos Pselas, Athanasios Hastas, Dimitra Kozikopoulou, Stilianos Karatapanis 1st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece

OP16 PATIENTS WITH HAEMOGLOBINOPATHIES AND CHRONIC HEPATITIS C: A REALLY DIFFICULT TO TREAT POPULATION IN 2016? VALIDKalliopi Zachou, ONLY Pinelopi IF Arvaniti PRESENTED, Nikolaos K. Gatselis, Kalliopi Azariadi, Georgia Papadamou, Eirini Rigopoulou, George N. Dalekos Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

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OP17 THE ROLE OF THE NLRP3 INFLAMMASOME AND THE ACTIVATION OF IL-1β IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF CHRONIC VIRAL HEPATIC INFLAMMATION 1Adam Molyvdas, 2Urania Georgopoulou, 5Themistoklis Vassiliadis, 4Prodromos Hytiroglou, 1Anastasios E. Germenis, 3Georgios Germanidis, 1Matthaios Speletas 1Department of Immunology and Histocompatibility, University of Thessaly, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Larissa, Friday, March 10, 2017 March Friday, Greece 2Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece 3First Department of Internal Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece 4Department of Pathology, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece 5Third Department of Internal Medicine, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

OP18 THE CURRENT RECOMMENDED TREATMENT WITH 2ND GENERATION DAAS IN CHRONIC HEPATITIS C IN GREECE- TOLERATION AND VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE 1Andreas Kapatais, 2Solon Solomou, 3Dimitrios Karagiannakis, 1Evaggelia Ouranou, 2Ekaterini Kitna, 2Becator Latsis, 2Alexia Theofilou,2 Stefanos Tigas, 2Antonios Loutountzis, 4Theofani Karaoulani

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL 1Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital Western Attiki -General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon”, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece 21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon”- General Hospital Western Attiki, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece 3Department of Gastroenterology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece 4Biopathology Medicine Department, General Hospital Western Attiki-General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon”, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece

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08:30 - 10:00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS OP19-OP27 GASTROENTEROLOGY/HEPATOLOGY (B) Chairpersons: Sotirios Georgopoulos (Athens, Greece) Evangelos. Cholongitas (Thessaloniki, Greece)

OP19 POSTINFANTILE GIANT CELL HEPATITIS (PIGCH): A RARE HISTOLOGICAL PRESENTATION OF AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS (AIH) LEADING TO FULMINANT LIVER FAILURE 10, 2017 March Friday, 1Pinelopi Arvaniti, 1Kalliopi Azariadi, 1Vasiliki Lygoura, 1Nikolaos Gatselis, 2George K. Koukoulis, 1George N. Dalekos, 1Kalliopi Zachou 1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

OP20 LOW SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH DECOMPENSATED CIRRHOSIS AND GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT COLONIZATION BY MULTIDRUG RESISTANT BACTERIA 1Sophia Pouriki, 2Georgia Vrioni, 1Helen Sambatakou, 1Larisa Vasilieva, 1Iliana Mani, 1Alexandra Alexopoulou, 1Spyros P. Dourakis 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 2Department of Microbiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

OP21 SCREENING OF LIFE STYLE FACTORS IN SLOVAK LIVER OUTPATIENTS 1Maria Szantova, 2Lubomir Skladany, 3Martin Janicko, 4Marek Rac, 5Martin Zima, 2Zuzana Meszarosova, 1Zuzana Durkovicova, 1Viera Kupcova, 2Svetlana Adamcova Selcanova, 2Maria Belovicova 13rd Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty of Comenius University Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia 22nd Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of FD VALIDRoosevelt, Banska ONLY Bystrica, IF Slovakia PRESENTED 3Department of Internal Medicine of University PJ Safarik Kosice, Slovakia 4Department of Internal Medicine University Hospital KF, Nitra, Slovakia 52nd Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Nove Zamky, Slovakia

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OP22 CAUSATIVE DISTRIBUTION AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATA OF LIVER CIRRHOSIS 1Xanthi Koufomichali, 1Dimitrios Charitos, 1Christina Ellina, 1Athina Eleftheriadou, 1Christina Karampampa, 1Evangelos Michelakis, 2Ioannis Minardos, 3Christiana Kaliouli, 1Larisa Karasavidou, 1Christos Drakoulis 1Hepatology Outpatient Clinic, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Friday, March 10, 2017 March Friday, Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 2Department of Radiology, General State Hospital of Nikaia- Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 3Immunology Department General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece

OP23 HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA (HCC) IN MULTITRANSFUSED PATIENTS WITH THALASSEMIA MAJOR (TM) IN GREECE: RISK FACTORS, CHARACTERISTICS AND THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES 1,2Dimitrios Kountouras, 2Antonis Kattamis, 4Alexandra Kouraklis, 5Evanggelos Klironomos, 6Ioannis Lafiatis,7 Fotini Petropoulou, 8Konstantinos Maragkos, 10Kallistheni Farmaki, 9Artemis Vasileiadi, 3John Koskinas 1Hepatology Department, Hygeia-Mitera Hospital, Athens, Greece 2A Academic Department of Paediatrics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL 3B Academic Department of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 4Hematology Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece 5Transfusion Unit, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece 6Transfusion Unit, Vostanion Hospital of Lesvos, Mytilene, Greece 7Transfusion Unit, General State Hospital, Athens, Greece 8Transfusion Unit, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece 9Transfusion Unit, General Hospital of Hania, Hania, Greece 10Transfusion Unit, General Hospital of Korinth, Korinth, Greece

OP24 ILEO-COLONOSCOPY, CARDIO-RESPIRATORY DISEASES AND ADEQUATE SEDATION 1Nikolaos V. Chrysanthos, 2Niki Mpardatsou, VALID1Evagelia ONLYAnagnostopoulou, IF PRESENTED 2Popi Alexandraki 1Gastrointestinal Department, St. George General Hospital of Chania, Chania, Greece 2Department of Anesthesiology, St. George General Hospital of Chania, Chania, Greece

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OP25 PERSISTENT INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION LEADS TO SURGICAL INTERVENTION IN CROHN’S PATIENTS: A NESTED CASE-CONTROL STUDY 1,2Polychronis Pavlidis, 2Alexandra Cockroft, 1Ingvar Bjarnason, 1,2Bu’Hussain Hayee 1Department of Gastroenterology, King’s College Hospital, London, UK 2King’s College London, UK

OP26 MEAN TROUGH LEVELS OF EVEROLIMUS ARE ASSOCIATED 10, 2017 March Friday, WITH HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA RECURRENCE AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION 1Theodora Oikonomou, 1Evangelos Cholongitas, 1Ioannis Goulis, 1Christina Tondikidi, 1Marianna Diavasti, 1Konstantina Vaitsi, 1Eugenia Voudouri, 2Ioannis Fouzas, 1Evangelos Akriviadis, 2Vasileios Papanikolaou 14th Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 2Department of Transplant Surgery, Hippokration General Hospital, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

OP27 EVALUATION OF POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS RICH FOODS INTAKE ON GENETICALLY SUSCEPTIBLE PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL INDIVIDUALS: THE HELLENIC NAFLD STUDY 1Ioanna Panagiota Kalafati, 1Maria Dimitriou, 1Dimitra Borsa, 1Efstathia Zogkza-Frantzeskaki, 1Venetia Bazioti, 3John Vlachogiannakos, 2Konstantinos Revenas, 3Alexander Kokkinos, 3Spyridon D. Ladas, 1George V. Dedoussis 1Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece 2Radiology Department, General Hospital of Athens “Laiko”, Athens, Greece 3First Department of Propaedeutic Medicine, General Hospital of Athens “Laiko”, Athens, Greece VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

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10:00 - 11:30 ROUND TABLE Obesity: From epidemiology to treatment Chairpersons: Hermann Toplak (Graz, Austria) Peter Nilsson (Malmo, Sweden) Epidemiology, definition and diagnosis of obesities Hermann Toplak (Graz, Austria)

Friday, March 10, 2017 March Friday, Obesity, impaired glucose metabolism and vascular changes Peter Nilsson (Malmo, Sweden)

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL Mechanisms of obesity induced hypertension Vasilios Kotsis (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Novel drugs in the treatment of obesity Jens Jordan (Hannover, Germany)

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10:00 - 11:30 ROUND TABLE Advances in viral hepatitis management Hellenic Association for the Study of the Liver Chairpersons: Stephanos J. Hadziyannis (Athens, Greece) John Koskinas (Athens, Greece) Chronic hepatitis B: Discontinuation of oral antivirals Stephanos J. Hadziyannis (Athens, Greece)

Chronic hepatitis C: Challenges in special populations

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL Heiner Wedemeyer (Hannover, Germany)

Chronic hepatitis delta: An update Cihan Yurdaydin (Ankara, Turkey)

11:30 - 12:00 E-poster viewing/Coffee Break

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12:00 - 13:30 ROUND TABLE New developments in diabetes mellitus Hellenic Diabetes Association Chairpersons: Nikolaos Papanas (Alexandroupolis, Greece) George Dimitriadis (Athens, Greece) Novel approaches to manage dyslipidaemia, NAFLD and CV risk in type 2 diabetes

Manfredi Rizzo (Palermo, Italy) 10, 2017 March Friday,

Silent myocardial ischaemia in diabetes: New developments

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL Paul Valensi (Paris, France)

Diabetic neuropathy: New developments in early diagnosis and treatment Dan Ziegler (Düsseldorf, Germany)

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12:00 - 13:30 ROUND TABLE Treatment innovations in rheumatic diseases Chairpersons: Loic Guillevin (Paris, France) Yves Renaudineau (Brest, France) Treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis: Questions and concerns Loic Guillevin (Paris, France)

Biological-targeted treatments in giant cell arteritis and Takayasu arteritis Maxime Samson (Dijon, France)

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL Primary Sjögren’s syndrome: How to improve specific treatment? Yves Renaudineau (Brest, France)

Axial spondyloarthritis and psoriatic arthritis: Emerging treatment strategies Menelaos N. Manoussakis (Athens, Greece)

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13:30 - 14:30 SATELLITE LECTURE Sponsored by

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14:30 - 15:30 E-poster viewing/Leisure time

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15:30 - 16:30 SYMPOSIUM Staphylococcal infections Chairperson: Serhat Unal (Ankara, Turkey) Choosing antibiotics in difficult to treat staphylococcal infections Francesco Menichetti (Pisa, Italy) Friday, March 10, 2017 March Friday, Optimizing treatment strategies in S. aureus bacteremia Serhat Unal (Ankara, Turkey)

16:30 - 17:00 STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE Hellenic Stroke Organization Chairperson: Konstantinos Vemmos (Athens, Greece) Clinical application of stroke genetics Martin Dichgans (Munich, Germany)

17:00 - 17:45 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM Sponsored by

17:45 - 18:15 Ε-poster viewing/Break

18:15 - 19:45 ROUND TABLE Internal Medicine in the 21st century European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM) Chairpersons: Pier Mannuccio Mannucci (Milan, Italy) George N. Dalekos (Larissa, Greece) European Curriculum of Internal Medicine Runólfur Pálsson (Reykjavik, Iceland)

Choosing wisely: To be or not to be - that’s the question Nicola Montano (Milan, Italy)

The role of EFIM publications for trainees and specialists Pier Mannuccio Mannucci (Milan, Italy)

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19:45 - 20:15 STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE Chairperson: George Ntaios (Larissa, Greece) Selecting the appropriate antithrombotic strategy in atrial fibrillation Gregory Lip (Birmingham, UK)

20:15 - 21:00 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM

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08:30 - 09:30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS OP28-OP33 INFECTIOUS DISEASES Chairpersons: Eleni Boutati (Athens, Greece) Efthymia Giannitsioti (Athens, Greece)

OP28 THE INFLUENCE OF ILLNESS DURATION BEFORE DIAGNOSIS OVER THE CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN PATIENTS WITH

Saturday, March 11, 2017 March Saturday, BRUCELLOSIS 1Mile Bosilkovski, 2Dijana Siskova, 3Silvana Miskova, 4Marjan Zezoski 1Medical Faculty “Ss Cyril and Methodius” University, Skopje, FYROM 2Department for Infectious diseases, Medical Center Shtip, FYROM 3Department for Infectious diseases, Medical Center Veles, FYROM 4Department for Infectious diseases, Medical Center Prilep, FYROM

OP29 PREVALENCE OF HEMATOGENOUS TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS IN BLOOD DONORS POPULATION IN THE LAST 5 YEAR PERIOD 1Eymorfia Vamvaka, 2Dorothea Hatzidaki, 2Attalia Ferke, 1Eyangellos Aggelou, 3Giorgos Ntetskas, 3Vasileios Papastergiou, 3Eystathia Anastasiou, 3Stilianos Karatapanis 1Blood Transfusion Unit1, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL 2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece 31st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece

OP30 COULD COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS ISOLATION BE SIGNIFICANT POST FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL? A CLINICAL CASE OF LATE-ONSET VENTRICULITIS 1Sarah Thompson, 1Samantha Simpkins, 2Aggelos Stefos, 3Elizabeth Jane Minton, 1,4Vasileios Papavasileiou 1Stroke Services, Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK VALID2Department ONLY of Medicine IF and PRESENTED Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 3Infectious Diseases Service, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK 4School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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OP31 INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME AS INITIAL MANIFESTATION OF RETROPERITONEAL TUBERCULOSIS IN A PREGNANT WOMAN 1Marwene Grira, 2Sophie Durieux-Paillard, 1Laurent Getaz, 3Jean-Paul Janssens 1Division of Primary Care Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 2

Migrant health Program, Division of Primary Care Medicine, 11, 2017 March Saturday, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland 3Division of Pulmonary Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

OP32 PERITONEAL FLUID CULTURE EVALUATION IN A GENERAL HOSPITAL IN A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD 1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Apostolina Papadopoulou, 1Evaggelia Chrisostomou, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1George Katagis, 1Christos Briasoulis, 1Christos Mitsis, 1Christos Georgiou, 1Anastasia Pournou 1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece 3Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza,

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL Greece

OP33 PREDICTORS OF LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS (LRTI) IN ELDERLY PATIENTS REQUIRING HOSPITALIZATION Panagiota Voukelatou, Ioannis Vrettos, Athina Bitsikokou, Areti Ragkou, Vasilios Anastasopoulos, Andreas Kalliakmanis 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, General and Oncology Hospital of Kifissia “Agioi Anargyroi”, Athens, Greece

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08:30 - 09:30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS OP34-OP39 MISCELLANEOUS Chairpersons: Michael Voulgarelis (Athens, Greece), Vaia Lambadiari (Athens, Greece)

OP34 PROLONGED FEBRILE ILLNESS (PFI) REVISITED: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE TERTIARY

Saturday, March 11, 2017 March Saturday, REFERRAL CENTER EXPERIENCE IN CENTRAL GREECE Erietta Polychronopoulou, Pinelopi Arvaniti, Anna Samakidou, Leonidas Mavroidis, Konstantinos Makaritsis, George N. Dalekos, Kalliopi Zachou Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

OP35 IMPORTANCE OF LOCAL FOODS FOR THE TROFOSTAZ Taganmyrat Hojageldiyev, Bahar Arashova, Yklym Bolmammedov Pharmacology Department, State Medical University of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

OP36 ALTERNATIVES ON ADMISSION TO A CHRONIC- MULTIMORBIDITY UNIT 1Raquel Rodil, 2Vincenzo Malafarina, 1Paula Mendoza, PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL 1María Ruiz, 1Gregorio Tiberio 1Internal Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Navarra, Spain 2Geriatric Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Navarra, Spain

OP37 EVALUATION OF MORTALITY CAUSES OF THE LAST 10 YEARS IN DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES UMRANIYE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL 1Sema Ucak, 1Rıdvan Sivritepe, 2Ayşe Nilüfer Özaydın, 1Damla Ortaboz, 1Ecem Sevim Çalık, 3Arzu Çalışgan VALID1Department ONLY of Internal IF Medicine, PRESENTED University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Public Health, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey 3Medstats Consulting Limited Company, Istanbul, Turkey

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OP38 ASSOCIATION OF SERUM TUMOR MARKERS CEA AND CA 15-3 WITH OXIDATIVE STRESS AND BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) IN DIFFERENT SUBTYPES OF BREAST CANCER 1Eleftheria Daridou, 1Evgenia Lymperaki, 2Stylianos Kakoliris, 2Ioanna Balgouranidou, 2Theodora Gioka 1Medical Laboratory Science, Alexandrion Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 2General University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece Saturday, March 11, 2017 March Saturday,

OP39 ESTIMATION OF OXIDATIVE STRESS BIOMARKERS IN PATIENTS WITH HEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES 1Ioannis Tsamesidis, 2Eugenia Lymperaki, 3Kali Makedou, 3 2 2

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL Stavros Iliadis, Anna Pekou, Athanasios Tsagkadouras, 4Claudio Fozza 1University of Verona, Department of Medicine, Verona, Italy 2Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Medical Laboratory Science, Thessaloniki, Greece 3Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 4University of Sassari, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Sassari, ItalyVALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

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09:30 - 11:00 ROUND TABLE Global health security: Threats and opportunities Chairpersons: Christos Hadjichristodoulou (Larissa, Greece) Ioannis Baskozos (Athens, Greece) Global health and population movements Varvara Mouchtouri (Larissa, Greece)

The role of points of entry (ports, airports, ground, crossings) in global health security

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL Daniel Lins Menucci, WHO Headquarters (Lyon, France)

The impact of the International Health Regulations 2005 in global health security Thomas Hofmann, WHO Euro (Copenhagen, Denmark)

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09:30 - 10:30 SYMPOSIUM Acute kidney injury after abdominal surgery Chairperson: Runólfur Pálsson (Reykjavik, Iceland) Definition, classification and diagnosis of acute kidney injury José António Lopes (Lisbon, Portugal)

Acute kidney injury after abdominal surgery: Risk factors and PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL

Saturday, March 11, 2017 March Saturday, management Runólfur Pálsson (Reykjavik, Iceland)

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11:00 - 11:30 STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE Chairperson: Panayiotis G. Vlachoyiannopoulos (Athens, Greece) Autoimmune serology: The strategy, methodology and clinical governance Diego Vergani (London, UK)

11:30 - 12:00 E-poster viewing/Coffee break

12:00 - 13:30 ROUND TABLE Autoimmune cholestatic liver diseases Chairpersons: Gideon Hirschfield (Birmingham, UK) Henk R. van Buuren (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) Scientific and practical aspects of registries in primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) Henk R. van Buuren (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

PBC: Old and novel therapies Annarosa Floreani (Padova, Italy)

Variant syndromes: Classification and management Albert Pares (Barcelona, Spain)

Deranged cholestatic enzymes in a patient with inflammatory bowel disease: What to do? Gideon Hirschfield (Birmingham, UK)

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13:30 - 14:00 STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE Chairperson: Nikolaos K. Gatselis (Larissa, Greece) Disease specific IVIG to treat diverse autoimmune diseases Miri Blank (Tel Aviv, Israel)

14:00 - 14:30 SATELLITE LECTURE Sponsored by Saturday, March 11, 2017 March Saturday,

14:30 - 16:00 E-poster viewing/Leisure time

16:00 - 17:30 ROUND TABLE Highlights in intensive care unit (ICU) infections Chairperson: George Dimopoulos (Athens, Greece) Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP): Could be realistic? Stijn Blot (Ghent, Belgium)

Reducing the antifungal drugs consumption in the ICU Philippe Montravers (Paris, France) PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL

Fighting multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogens in the ICU Murat Akova (Ankara, Turkey)

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16:00 - 17:30 ROUND TABLE NAFLD - NASH: From pathogenesis to treatment Chairpersons: Vlad Ratziu (Paris, France) Emmanuel A. Tsochatzis (London, UK) Steatosis and metabolic risk factors: Who is at risk of liver disease progression Mattias Ekstedt (Linköping, Sweden) Saturday, March 11, 2017 March Saturday, NAFLD genetics Quentin Anstee (Newcastle, UK) PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis in NAFLD Emmanuel Tsochatzis (London, UK)

Novel pharmacotherapy options for NASH Vlad Ratziu (Paris, France)

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17:30 - 18:00 STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE Chairperson: Spyridon Dourakis (Athens, Greece) The coagulopathy of chronic liver disease Pier Mannuccio Mannucci (Milan, Italy)

18:00 - 19:00 SYMPOSIUM Lymphocyte disruptions in autoimmune diseases Chairperson: Yves Renaudineau (Brest, France) Diagnostic accuracy of lymphocyte subset profiling in autoimmune diseases Christophe Jamin (Brest, France)

PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL Myeloid populations are altered in systemic autoimmune diseases Concepción Marañón (Granada, Spain)

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18:00 - 19:00 SYMPOSIUM Practical guidelines for diagnosis, management and outcome of drug-induced liver injury (DILI) Chairperson: Annarosa Floreani (Padova, Italy) Diagnostic evaluation of suspected DILI Ynto de Boer (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Management and outcome of DILI in patients with or without Saturday, March 11, 2017 March Saturday, PARALLEL SESSION PARALLEL chronic liver disease Alexandra Alexopoulou (Athens, Greece)

19:00 - 19:30 Coffee Break

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19:30 -21:00 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM Sponsored by

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Gastroenterology/Hepatology ePP001-ePP036

ePP001 CAN TELBIVUDINE BE CONSIDERED HELPFUL IN TENOFOVIR ASSOCIATED BONE DISEASE? Maria Papavdi, Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Spilios Manolakopoulos, Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, Melanie Deutsch 2nd Academic Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

ePP002 ACUTE HEPATITIS E IN GREECE. AN EMERGING ISSUE Antonios Kyritsis, Maria Pirounaki, Aggeliki Meritsi, Evaggelia Koutli, Evaggelos Ionas, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Efi Skafida, Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, Spilios Manolakopoulos, Melani Deutsch National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine Hippokrateion General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

ePP003 HCV VIRAEMIA IN ANTI-HCV-NEGATIVE HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS: A MYTH? 1Nikolaos Papadopoulos, 2Ioannis Griveas, 3Antonios Kalliaropoulos, 2Heleni Bagia, 4Melanie Deutsch 11st Department of Internal Medicine, 417 Army Share Fund Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece 2Nephrology Department, 417 Army Share Fund Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece 3Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece 42nd Department of Internal Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Hippokration Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

ePP004 HEPATITIS B VIRUS (HBV) AND HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) DUAL INFECTION: INTERACTIONS AND TREATMENT OUTCOME 1Nikolaos Papadopoulos, 2Dimitris Konstantinou, 2George Kontos, 2Maria Papavdi, 1Anna Pavlidi, 2Spilios Manolakopoulos, 2John Koskinas, 2Melanie Deutsch 11st Department of Internal Medicine, 417 Army Share Fund Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece 22nd DepartmentVALID of Internal Medicine,ONLY Athens IF UniversityPRESENTED Medical School, Hippokration Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

28 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP005 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D IS A PROGNOSTIC MARKER IN ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE Eleni Armeni, Gerasimos Kapellos, Petros - Ioannis Kritikos, Konstantinos Iskos, Maria Karbalioti, Christos Georgakopoulos, Ilias Fillas, Panagiotis Kouroupakis, Konstantinos Kalligeros, Evangelos Dimitrellos 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Sismanogleio General Hospital of Attica, Athens, Greece ePP006 PERIPORTAL LYMPADENOPATHY AS THE INITIAL PRESENTATION OF AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS - PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS OVERLAP SYNDROME Eleni Armeni, Gerasimos Kapellos, Konstantinos Iskos, Petros - Ioannis Kritikos, Maria Karbalioti, Christos Georgakopoulos, Panagiotis Kouroupakis, Nikolaos Karakousis, Konstantinos Kalligeros, Evangelos Dimitrellos 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Sismanogleio General Hospital of Attica, Athens, Greece ePP007 GLYCOGENIC HEPATOPATHY: AN UNUSUAL HEPATIC COMPLICATION OF DIABETES MELLITUS 1Kalliopi Azariadi, 1Pinelopi Arvaniti, 1Maria Tsitsia, 1Kalliopi Zachou, 1Georgia Papadamou, 1Argirios Loukopoulos, 1Nikolaos K. Gatselis, 1Konstantinos P. Makaritsis, 2George K. Koukoulis, 1George N. Dalekos 1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece ePP008 NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANTIBODIES TO CORE+1 PROTEIN AND SPONTANEOUS CLEARANCE OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS 1Theodora Mylopoulou, 3Katerina Kassela, 2Ioannis Karakasiliotis, 4Vasileios Papadopoulos, 2Penelope Mavromara, 1Konstantinos Mimidis 11st Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece 2Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece 3Molecular VirologyVALID Laboratory, ONLY Hellenic Pasteur IF Institute,PRESENTED Athens, Greece 4“Enargeia Medicine ΜΕΠΕ”, Xanthi, Greece

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ePP009 SERONEGATIVE AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS IN A CARDIOLOGICAL PATIENT: CASE REPORT 1Antreas Ioannou, 2Ioannis Michaelides, 1Chrysostomos Zintilis, 1Eleni Papanicolaou 1Internal Medicine Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus 2Histopathology Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus

ePP010 CHOLESTATIC JAUNDICE DUE TO IM USE OF ANABOLIC STEROIDS Aikaterini Dimakopoulou, Giannis Vasileiadis Department of Internal Medicine, G.Gennimatas Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP011 UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING: FIVE-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY INA GREEK HOSPITAL 1Eleftherios Stratigakos, 2Aimilia Pelekanou, 3Elina Drakou, 2Evangelos Michelakis, 4Panagiota Vasilopoulou, 5Evangelia Tzeravini, 6Spyridon Kottas, 7Panagiotis Prezerakos, 7Maria Tsironi, 7Panagiotis Andriopoulos 1Department of Gastroenterology, “Metaxa” Oncologic Hospital of Piraeus, Greece 22nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus, Greece 31st Department of Internal Medicine, “G. Gennimatas” General Hospital of Athens, Greece 42nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Kalamata, Greece 5Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Sparti, Greece 6Hellenic Labour Inspectorate, Greek Ministry of Labour, Social Insurance and Social Solidarity, Greece 7Department of Nursing, Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, University of Peloponnese, Greece

ePP012 SERUM FERRITIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH DECOMPENSATED CIRRHOSIS Theodora Oikonomou, Ioannis Goulis, Apostolos Dougalis, Areti Karasmani, Petros Doumtsis, Theodora Tzoumari, Ioannis Doulgeris, Stamatia Mihailidou, Katerina Kolotsiou, Evangelos Cholongitas 4th Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

30 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP013 SEVERE HEPATIC DYSFUNCTION AFTER BARIATRIC SURGERY IN A MIDDLE AGED WOMAN WITH MORBID OBESITY 1Eleana Gkamprela, 1Apostolos Migas, 3Nikolaos Papadopoulos, 1Aggeliki Meritsi, 1Antonios Kiritsis, 2Evangelos Menenakos, 2Konstantinos G Toutouzas, 1Spilios Manolakopoulos, 1Melanie Deutsch 1Second Department of Internal Medicine Hippocration General Hospital Athens, Athens, Greece 2Department of Surgery Hippocration General Hospital Athens, Athens, Greece 3First Department of Internal Medicine, 417 Army Share Fund Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece ePP014 EFFICACY OF THE NEW DIRECT-ACTING ANTI-VIRAL AGENTS IN TREATING CHRONIC HEPATITIS C Maria Sarigianni, Ioanna Kotsamidi, Alexandros Kaprinis, Evaggelos Chatzopoulos, Eleni Gigi Hepatology Outpatient Clinic, 2nd Internal Medicine Department, Ippokrateio General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece ePP015 LIVER BIOPSY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF NON-HODKIN LYMPHOMA IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC HBV INFECTION 1Maria Agrogianni, 1Aimilia Pelekanou, 1Anastasia Ioannidou, 1Christina Karambamba, 1Maria Palatianou, 1Larisa Karasavidou, 3Pinelopi Korkolopoulou, 2Evangelia Kalagiakou, 1Panagiotis Zorbas, 1Christos Drakoulis 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 2Department of Hematology, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 31st Department of Pathophysiology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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ePP016 HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA ACCORDING TO THE PATIENTS HOSPITALIZED IN GENERAL HOSPITAL OF WEST ATTICA 1Andreas Kapatais, 2Solon Solomou, 3Dimitrios Karagiannakis, 1Evaggelia Ouranou, 2Ekaterini Kitna, 2Becator Latsis, 2Alexia Theofilou,2 Stefanos Tigas, 4Theofani Karaoulani 1Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital Western Attiki - General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon”, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece 21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon” - General Hospital Western Attiki, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece 3Department of Gastroenterology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece 4Biopathology Medicine Department, General Hospital Western Attiki - General Hospital “Agios Panteleimon”, Nikaia, Pireaus, Greece

ePP017 TOXIC HEPATITIS AFTER INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN USE: A CASE REPORT OF MYASTHENIA GRAVIS 1Fatma Kurt, 1Hanife Şerife Aktas, 1Umran Keskin, 2Ayse Rana Platin, 1Ridvan Sivritepe, 1Suheda Cakmak 1Health Sciences University Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital Internal Medicine Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey 2Health Sciences University Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital Family Medicine Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey

ePP018 RED CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH IN CIRRHOSIS - COMMON ANALYSIS OR USEFUL TOOL? 1Elena Mihaela Topala, 1Victor Stefan Ionescu, 1,2Roxana Siliste, 1,2Corina Simona Homentcovschi 1Faculty of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania 2Internal Medicine Department, Coltea Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania

ePP019 COLORECTAL CANCER IN PATIENTS WITH CROHN’S DISEASE 1Gloria Perez-Vazquez, 2Esther Rubio-Martin, 3Luis Garcia-Aragon, 3Juan AntonioVALID Jimenez-Casas, ONLY 1Jose Luis IFBianchi-LLave PRESENTED 1Internal Medicine, La Linea- SAS Hospital, Spain 2Nephrology, La Linea- SAS Hospital, Spain 3Primary Care, Gibraltar Health Field Area, Spain

32 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP020 COMPLICATED ACUTE PANCREATITIS IN SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY 1Sibel Ocak Serin, 2Gulsah Karaoren, 3Zeynep Sule Cakar, 4Hakan Demirdag, 5Hakan Cakit 1Department of Internal Medicine, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey 3Department of Infectious Diseases, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey 4Department of Gastroenterology, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey 5Department of General Surgery, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey ePP021 LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING IN A ADULT PATIENT CAUSED BY MECKEL’S DIVERTICULUM 1Aimilia Pelekanou, 2Anastasia Ioannidou, 3Maria Agrogianni, 4Christina Karampampa, 5Konstantinos Giannakas, 6Athanasia Farmaki, 7Vasilios Nikolaou, 8Lidia Iordanidou, 9Panagiotis Zormpas, 10Chistos Drakoulis 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 2Radiology Department, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 3Department of Nuclear Medicine, Specific Oncologic Hospital of Piraeus “Metaxa”, Athens, Greece ePP022 CASE REPORT: ACUTE PANCREATITIS IN A YOUNG PATIENT WITH POLYSPLENIA AND SHORT PANCREAS SYNDROME 1Melina Kavousanaki, 1Asimina Koulouridi, 1Kalliopi Papadospyridaki, 1Sevasti Maragou, 1Stamatis Karakonstantis, 2Emmanuel Foukarakis, 3Viktoria Stylianaki, 1Evangelos Thalassinos, 1Haralampos Lydakis 1Internal Medicine, Department B, Venizeleio General Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece 2Cardiology Department, Venizeleio General Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED 3Radiology Department, Venizeleio General Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece

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ePP023 TBC ENTERITIS MIMICKING CROHN’S DISEASE IN A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN. A CASE REPORT 1Ioannis Familias, 2Giorgos Ntetskas, 2Vasileios Papastergiou, 2Eystathia Anastasiou, 2Nikitas Katsilis, 2Kontstantinos Roufas, 2Maria Stampori, 1Savvas Kalathenos, 2Dimitra Kozikopoulou, 2Stilianos Karatapanis 1Gastroenterology Department, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece 21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece

ePP024 AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF ACUTE LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING: LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA METASTASIS TO THE DESCENDING COLON 1Paraskevas Gkolfakis, 1Georgios Tziatzios, 1Ioannis S. Papanikolaou, 1Konstantinos Grammatikos, 2Ioannis G. Panayiotides, 2Zoi Tsakiraki, 3Irina Zinovieva, 1George D. Dimitriadis, 1Konstantinos Triantafyllou 1Hepatogastroenterology Unit, Second Department of Internal Medicine - Propaedeutic, Research Institute and Diabetes Center, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, ‘‘Attikon” University General Hospital, Athens, Greece 22nd Department of Pathology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University, Attikon University General Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Department of Pathology, Thriassion General Hospital of Eleusis, Greece

ePP025 AN UNEXPECTED SHORTCUT: CASE REPORT OF A GASTROCOLIC FISTULA (GCF) POST-TOTAL PANCREATECTOMY 1Georgios Kechagias, 1Eirini Zacharopoulou, 2Elias Skopelitis, 1Dimitrios Moschovis, 2Evgenia Papadopoulos, 3Antigoni Karakosta, 4Kabi Eid-Papastefanou, 1Vasileios Vamvakousis, 1Evaggelos Andrikopoulos, 1Maria Tzouvala 1Gastrenterology Department, General Hospital of Nikea and Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 22nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Nikea and Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 3Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Nikea and Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 4Department of Radiology, General Hospital of Nikea and Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

34 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP026 PERIPARTUM MASSIVE UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING IN ADVANCED AGED IVF PREGNANCIES 1Hakan Demirdag, 2Sibel Ocak Serin, 3Gulsah Karaoren, 4Sabri Atay 1Department of Gastroenterology, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Internal Medicine, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey 3Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Health Sciences University, Istanbul, Turkey 4Family Practitioner, Kartal Ugur Mumcu Family Health Center, Istanbul, Turkey ePP027 MINI CASE SERIES: SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF GASTRIC DIEULAFOY LESIONS WITH ENDOSCOPIC BAND LIGATION (EBL) 1Georgios Kechagias, 1Dimitrios Moschovis, 1Eirini Zacharopoulou, 1Vasilios Vamvakousis, 2Theodoros Peppas, 1Chrysoula Veimou, 1Maria Tzouvala 1Gastroenterology Department, General Hospital of Nikaia Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece 2Third Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Nikaia Piraeus “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece ePP028 DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF SPYGLASS™ DS SYSTEM IN THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF INFLAMMATORY vsNEOPLASTIC BILIARY STENOSIS: A SINGLE- CENTER RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF 14 PATIENTS Ioannis D. Dimas, Maria Fragaki, Afroditi Bitouli, Angeliki Theodoropoulou, Emmanouil Vardas, Gregorios A. Paspatis Department of Gastroenterology, Venizeleion General Hospital, Heraklion, Crete, Greece ePP029 A RARE RECTAL TUMOR IN A 46YEAR OLD WOMAN Maria Stafylidoy, Asterios Gkagkalis, Elena Vasiliadou, Christos Liatzakis, Maria Gavra, Athanasios Kalambakas, Glykeria Tzatzagou 1st Department of Internal Medicine Papageorgiou General Hospital ePP030 AN ALTERNATIVEVALID TREATMENT ONLY FOR ANGΙODΥSPLASIAS IF PRESENTED 1Paula Mendoza Roy, 1Raquel Rodil Fraile, 2Vincenzo Malafarina, 1Nerea Andres, 1Gregorio Tiberio, 1Amaia Redondo 1Internal Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Spain 2Geriatrics, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Spain

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ePP031 AN INTERESTING CASE OF A PATIENT WITH CELIAC DISEASE AND ABDOMINAL PAIN Haris Constantinou, Kostas Kaouranis, Sophia Chistodoulou, Anthoula Kizi, Ioanna Nikolaidou, Georgos Olympios, Andreas Stylianou Department of Internal Medicine, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus

ePP032 OLMESARTAN-ASSOCIATED ENTEROPATHY: A CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW 1Stamatis Karakonstantis, 1Emmanouil Tzagarakis, 1,2Harry Lydakis 1Internal Medicine B, Venizeleio General Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece 2Head of Emergency Department, Venizeleio General Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece

ePP033 HBV RECURRENCE IN TWO PATIENTS WITHOUT ANTI-HBc AND SOLELY ANTI- HBs, FOLLOWING THERAPY FOR HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE. SUCCESSFUL THERAPY WITH ENTECAVIR Giorgos Ntetskas, Vasileios Papastergiou, Emmanouil Spanou, Eystathia Anastasiou, Nikitas Katsilis, Maria Paraskeya, Despoina Papanikola, Konstantinos Roufas, Chrisostomos Pselas, Stilianos Karatapanis 1st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece

ePP034 APPROACH OF HEPATITIS C CHOLESTATIC FORM - TARGET AND IMPLICATIONS OF BILE ACIDS TREATMENT 1Marinela Bezna, 2Maria Cristina Bezna, 1Camelia Pitis, 1Sorin Bezna, 1Cristina Deliu 1Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Craiova, Romania 2Cardiology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Craiova, Romania

ePP035 ACUTE HEPATITIS BY ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING-ENZYME INHIBITORS (ACEI): A CASE REPORT José Luis Puerto-Alonso, Enrique Sánchez-Relinque, Gloria Pérez-Vázquez, Pedro Díaz de Souza, Eduardo Rojas Marín, José Manuel Gil-Gascón Internal Medicine Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain

ePP036 IS CALCIUM ANDVALID ITS REGULATORS ONLY RELATED IF PRESENTED TO AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS? A CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE Panagiotis Dimitriou, Elena Xenofontos, Emmelia Vounou Hepatology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital of Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus

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Nephrology ePP037-ePP050 ePP037 FEATURES OF NEPHROTIC SYNDROME IN ELDERLY PATIENTS - OUR EXPERIENCE Svetlana Antic, Violeta Rabrenovic Clinic of Nephrology, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia ePP038 CORRELATION BETWEEN TRADITIONAL PARAMETERS LUPUS NEPHRITIS ACTIVITY WITH URINARY BIOMARKER - LIPOCALIN 2 Violeta Rabrenovic, Svetlana Antic Clinic of Nephrology, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia ePP039 IMPACT OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ON RIGHT VENTRICULAR PERFORMANCE AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURVIVAL IN DIALYSIS PATIENTS 1Merita Rroji, 2Majlinda Cafka, 1Saimir Seferi, 1Nereida Spahia, 1Erjola Likaj, 1Alma Idrizi, 1Myftar Barbullushi 1University Hospital Center “ Mother Teresa”, Service of Nephrology, Tirana, Albania 2University Hospital Center” Mother Teresa”, Service of Cardiology, Tirana, Albania ePP040 FAVORABLE EFFECT OF COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY, ON LINE HEMODIAFILTRATION (HDF) AND PLASMAPHERESIS ON THE CLINICAL COURSE OF A PATIENT WITH DIALYSIS-DEPENDENT MYELOMA 1Christos Palouras, 1Giorgos Ntetskas, 1Fotini Lambrianou, 1Konstantinos Roufas, 1Nikolaos Karvouniaris, 2Emmanouil Spanou, 1Emmanouil Anastasakis 1Nephrology Department of General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece 2Hematology Department of General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece ePP041 IMPACT OF CONVENTIONAL HIGH VOLUME POST-DILUTION ON LINE HEMODIAFILTRATION (cpostD-OLHDF) ON ANAEMIA OF HEMODIALYSIS Eleni Intzevidou, Petros Spyropoulos, Despoina Papadopoulou, Cristina Chatziaslanidou, Nikolaos Zoumparidis Private Renal UnitVALID ‘’Protypo Nephrologiko ONLY Center IF OfPRESENTED Pella’’, Skydra, Greece ePP042 MALIGNANCIES IN ESRD Zoi Tegou, Konstantina Goula, Ourania Drakoulongona Nephrology Department, St Andrews General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece

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ePP043 REGRESSION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS AFTER CONVERSION TO EXTENDED THRICE-WEEKLY NOCTURNAL IN-CENTER HIGH VOLUME POST DILUTION ON LINE HEMODIAFILTRATION (npostD-OLHDF) Nikolaos Zoumparidis, Eleni Intzevidou, Antonios Makridis, Petros Spyropoulos, Despoina Papadopoulou, Christina Chatziaslanidou Renal Unit “Protypo Nephrologiko Center Of Pella”, Skydra, Greece

ePP044 COEXISTENCE OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AND SPOROTRICHOSIS IN A CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE PATIENT Ourania Drakoulogkona, Konstantina Goula, Zoi Tegou Nephrology Department, St Andrews General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece

ePP045 IMPACT OF KETOANALOGUES ON OUTCOME OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE 1Anita Krrashi, 2Alma Idrizi, 3Elsa Kone, 2Myftar Barbullushi, 2Nereida Spahia, 2Denada Haxhiu, 2Olta Qurku, 4Margaria Gjata 1Service of Internal Medicine, Hospital Center of Durres, Albania 2Service of Nephrology, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania 3Department of Histology, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania 4Service of Internal Medicine, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania

ePP046 WHAT’S NEW IN PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF PREECLAMPSIA 1Enton Kaçulini, 2Alma Idrizi, 1Marsida Duli, 2Alketa Koroshi, 3Alma Shehu, 2Nereida Spahia, 2Myftar Barbullushi, 4Margarita Gjata 1Faculty of Medical Sciences, Albanian University, Tirana, Albania 2Service of Nephrology, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania 3Medical Representative, Novartis Pharma, Tirana, Albania 4Service of Internal Medicine, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania

ePP047 SUCCESSFUL PREGNANCY AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANT: THE FIRST CASE IN ALBANIA 1Alma Idrizi, 2Mirela Rista, 2Ilir Tasho, 3Enton Kaçulini, 1Nereida Spahia, 1Denada Haxhiu,VALID 1Olta Qurku, ONLY 1Alketa Koroshi, IF PRESENTED 1Myftar Barbullushi, 4Margarita Gjata 1Service of Nephrology, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania 2Service of Obstetric-Gynecology, Hospital Koco Gliozheni, Tirana, Albania 3Faculty of Medical Sciences, Albanian University, Tirana, Albania 4Service of Internal Medicine, UHC Mother Teresa, Tirana, Albania

38 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP048 CORRELATION BETWEEN WAISTLINE PERIMETER AND CLASSIC HEMATOLOGICAL FACTORS, TO PATIENTS WITH OR WITHOUT DIABETES AND CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE FINAL STAGE 1Maria Mylonopoulou, 2David Symeonidis, 2Alkistis Kalesis, 2Panagiotis Xatziastros, 2Ioannis Protopsaltis, 2Stavros Antonopoulos 1M.X.A Nephrolife, Glyfada, Athens, Greece 2B Pathology Department, Tzaneio Pireaus Hospital, Pireaus, Greece ePP049 THE RETURN OF MILK ALKALI SYNDROME: A CURRENT CLINICAL ENTITY Irini Katsarou, Antonis Vithoulkas, Antonia Avgoustinou, Anna Likouresi General Hospital Zakynthos, Zakynthos, Greece ePP050 CARNITINE PALMITOYL TRANSFERASE II DEFICIENCY IN AN ADULT PRESENTING WITH RHABDOMYOLYSIS AND ACUTE RENAL FAILURE 1Rıdvan Sivritepe, 1Sema Uçak Basat, 1Kevser Kutlu Tatar, 2Murat Tugcu 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 2Department of Nephrology, Haydarpaşa Numune Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Hematology/Oncology ePP051-ePP074 ePP051 MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA WITH EXTENSIVE RETROPERITONEAL LOCALIZATION Maria Chrisanthakopoulou, Konstantina Iliopoulou, Panagiotis Vrekos, Vasilis Gogolas, Nikos Loulias, Zoi Alexiou 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Thriasio General Hospital of Elefsis, Athens, Greece ePP052 HEMOSIDEROSIS AND CIRRHOSIS IN A PATIENT WITH SICKLE CELL-BETA THALASSEMIA: AN UNUSUAL CASE 1Christos Demosthenous, 1Georgios Rizos, 1Maria Gavra, 2EfthimiaVlahaki, 1GlykeriaTzatzagouVALID ONLY IF PRESENTED 1A’ Department of Internal Medicine, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece 2Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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ePP053 SPLENIC MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA IN A PATIENT WITH LIVER INFILTRATION AND IMMUNOLOGICAL PHENOMENA: CASE REPORT 1Antreas Ioannou, 2Constantinos Chadjileontis, 3Marios Antoniades, 1Eleni Papanicolaou 1Internal Medicine Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus 2Histopathology Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus 3Hematology Department, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus

ePP054 POLYCYTHEMIA, ANGIOEDEMA AND DERMATOMYOSITIS AS PRESENTING SYMPTOMS IN A CASE OF OCCULT DE NOVO NEUROENDOCRINE PROSTATE CANCER 1Ioannis Botis, 2Stella Arelaki, 3Stavros Giannopoulos, 4Ioannis Chrysafis, 1Akif Chousko Mechmet, 1Vasiliki Dalla, 1Charalampos Papagoras, 2Alexandra Giatromanolaki, 1Panagiotis Skendros 1First Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece 2Department of Pathology, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece 3Department of Urology, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece 4Department of Radiology, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece

ePP055 LOW-GRADE SINONASAL SARCOMA WITH NEURAL AND MYOGENIC FEATURES (LGSSNMF) IN A FEMALE PATIENT WHO PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED TERIPARATIDE: CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGES 1Aikaterini Drylli, 2Eleni Paschou, 3Vasiliki Mamakou, 4Antonia Papazoglou, 1Nikolaos Sabanis 1ENT Department, General Hospital Paidon Pentelis, Athens, Greece 2Nephrology Department, General Hospital of Edessa, Edessa, Greece 3Department of Internal Medicine, Dromokaiteio Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, Greece 4Surgery Department, General Hospital Evangelismos, Athens, Greece

ePP056 AN UNCOMMONVALID CAUSE OF ONLY ELEVATED IF CREATINE PRESENTED KINASE IN AN ELDERLY MALE PATIENT Diana Maria Gherman, Delia Lupu, Daniela Fodor 2nd Internal Medicine Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu”, Cluj Napoca, Romania

40 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP057 SYNCHRONOUS MALIGNANT TUMORS OF DIFFERENT GENESIS IN AXILLARY LYMPH NODES 1,8Emmanouil Dimonitsas, 2Gregory Charitos, 3Konstantina Fragia-Tsivou, 4Konstantinos Dritsakos, 5Florentia Fostira, 1Eleni Christodoulaki, 6Nikolaos Kentepozidis, 7Irene Stefanaki, 7Alexandros Stratigos, 8Ioannis Kapiris 1Second Department of Surgery, 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece 2Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Private Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy, HistoBio Diagnosis, Athens, Greece 4Pathological Anatomy Department, 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece 5Μolecular Diagnostics Laboratory, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece 6Department of Oncology, 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece 7First Department of Dermatology and Venereology, “A. Sygros” Hospital, University of Athens, Greece 8Onassis Charitable Foundation, Athens, Greece ePP058 A CASE OF REFRACTORY HYPONATREMIA IN A CANCER PATIENT 1Maria Domenikou, 1Aggeliki Rapanou, 1Georgios Kalogeropoulos, 1Despina Liourdi, 1Dimitrios Serpanos, 2Ourania Drakoulogkona, 1Apostolos Papapostolou, 1Kalliopi Fouka, 2Konstantina Goula, 1Aggeliki Fragkoulia 1Pathology Department, St Andrews General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece 2Nephrology Department, St Andrews General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece ePP059 HODGKIN LYMPHOMA PRESENTING AS A CERVICAL LYMPH NODE CONGLOMERATE Lilian Sousa, Susana Cunha, Vera Vieira, Catarina Pereira Serviço de Medicina II, Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal ePP060 CHECK AGAIN! PRIMARY T CELL LYMPHOMA PRESENTING AS A TESTICULAR MASS Odianosen Obadan, Mirette Salib, Jose Pace, Mendel Warshawsky St John’s Episcopal Hospital, U.S.A. VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

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ePP061 MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE OF DUAL ENERGY CONTRAST ENHANCED DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY 1Elsa Tzamicha, 1Evangelos Georgiou, 4George Giakoumakis, 3Virginia Tsapaki, 2Athanasios Chalazonitis 1Medical Physics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 2Radiology Department, Alexandra General Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Radiology Department, Aghia Olga General Hospital, Athens, Greece 4International MBA AUEB, Athens, Greece

ePP062 DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS: ESTIMATION OF MEAN GLANDULAR DOSE IN BREAST 1Elsa Tzamicha, 2Christos Antypas, 1Anestis Dimitriadis, 3George Giakoumakis, 1Evangelos Georgiou 1Medical Physics Dpt, University of Athens, Greece 2CyberKnife and TomoTherapy Department, Iatropolis Clinic, Athens, Greece, First Department of Radiology, Aretaieion Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece 3International MBA AUEB, Athens, Greece

ePP063 PENILE MONDOR’S DISEASE IN PATIENT WITH ANAL CANCER RECEIVING RADIOCHEMOTHERAPY: A CASE REPORT 1Eleni Fotiou, 1Vasilis Vasiliou, 1Petros Polyviou, 1Maria Pittaka, 2Christiana Matthaiou, 2Margarita Dionisiou, 1Demetris Andreopoulos 1Department of Radiation Oncology, Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus 2Department of Medical Oncology, Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus

ePP064 INCIDENTAL SIMULTANEOUS DIAGNOSIS OF TWO DIFFERENT PRIMARY MALIGNANCIES: A CASE REPORT Maria Pittaka, Eleni Fotiou, Vasilis Vasiliou, Demetris Andreopoulos Department of Radiation Oncology, Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

42 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP065 CASE OF METASTATIC PAPILLARY THYROID CANCER TREATED BY THYROIDECTOMY AND RADIOTHERAPY 8 YEARS AGO, PRESENTED AS RESPIRATORY INFECTION 1Konstantinos Kounouklas, 1Petros Savourdos, 1Ioannis Lianos, 1Ioannis Chatzidakis, 1Stavroula Gongaki, 1Eleni Mostratou, 1Nikolaos Simeonidis, 2Konstantinos Marios Soultanis, 3Nikolaos Kentepozidis, 4Georgios Toloumis 12nd Department of Internal Medicine 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece 2Department of Thoracic Surgery 251 Hellenic Airforce General Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Oncology Department 251 Hellenic Airforce General Hospital, Athens, Greece 4Director of the Hellenic Airforce Health Service, Athens, Greece ePP066 FNA CYTOLOGY FORTHE DIAGNOSIS OF METASTATIC MELANOMA TO AXILLARY REGION 1Skevoudi Soultana, 1Georgios Hahalis, 1Konstantinos Theocharides, 1Vitor Gourvas, 2Freideriki Patakiouta, 3Jacob Angel 1Cytology Department, Hospital Theagenio, Thessaloniki, Greece 2Pathology Department, Hospital Theagenio, Thessaloniki, Greece 3Pulmonary-Oncology Clinic, Hospital Thegenio, Thessaloniki, Greece ePP067 DIAGNOSIS OF UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA OF PROSTATE GLAND WITH URINE CYTOLOGICAL EXAMINATION 1Skevoudi Soultana, 1Hahalis Georgios, 1Theocharides Konstantinos, 1Gourvas Victor, 2Moustakas Georgios, 3Patakiouta Freideriki 1Cytology Department, Theagenio Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 2Urological Clinic, Theagenio Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 3Pathology Department, Theagenio Hospital of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece ePP068 ADENOCARCINOMA OF THE COLON PRESENTING AS SINGLE SCALP METASTASIS: CASE REPORT 1Christina Nikolaidou, 2Theodoros Sidiropoulos, 1Stavroula Papadopoulou, 1Georgios Hahalis, 1Aspasia Deliligka, 1Ioannis Venizelos 1Department of Pathology, Hospital Theagenio, Thessaloniki, Greece 2Department of Dermatology,VALID Hospital ONLY of Skin IF and PRESENTED Venereal Diseases, Thessaloniki, Greece

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ePP069 EXTRANODAL B-LYMPHOBLASTIC LYMPHOMA PRESENTING AS A SOLITARY SOFT TISSUE MASS: CASE REPORT Stavroula Papadopoulou, Christina Nikolaidou, Aspasia Deliligka, Georgios Hahalis, Chrisostomi-Maria Platsa, Ioannis Venizelos Department of Pathology, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP070 PRIMARY NON-HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA OF THE UTERUS: A RARE CASE REPORT Stavroula Papadopoulou, Christina Nikolaidou, Aspasia Deliligka, Georgios Hahalis, Chrisostomi-Maria Platsa, Ioannis Venizelos Department of Pathology, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP071 ABDOMINAL BURKITT’S LYMPHOMA: CASE REPORT WITH MOLECULAR CONFIRMATION Stavroula Papadopoulou, Christina Nikolaidou, Aspasia Deliligka, Georgios Hahalis, Chrisostomi-Maria Platsa, Ioannis Venizelos Department of Pathology, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP072 HODGKIN LYMPHOMA WITH LIVER AND BONE METASTASES AT PRESENTATION: CASE REPORT Stavroula Papadopoulou, Christina Nikolaidou, Aspasia Deliligka, Georgios Hahalis, Ιoannis Venizelos Department of Pathology, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP073 PRIMARY MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA, BLASTOID TYPE, OF THE HEAD AND NECK: PRESENTATION OF TWO CASES Georgios Hahalis, Stavroula Papadopoulou, Christina Nikolaidou, Aspasia Deliligka, Chrisostomi-Maria Platsa, Ioannis Venizelos Department of Pathology, Hippokrateion General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

44 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP074 ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE (eNOS) T786C POLYMORPHISM AND SICKLE CELL DISEASE (SCD) RETINOPATHY 1Iakovos Armenis, 1Vassiliki Kalotychou, 1,2Revekka Tzanetea, 3Zoi Kontogeorgiou, 3Dimitra Anastasopoulou, 1Marina Mantzourani, 1Michael Samarkos, 4Konstantinos Pantos, 5Kostas Konstantopoulos, 2Ioannis Rombos 11st Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko Hospital, Athens, Greece 2Metropolitan Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Department of Biology, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 4Department of Pharmacology, Medical School, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece 5Department of Hematology, Medical School, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko Hospital, Athens, Greece

Cardiovascular Diseases ePP075-ePP099 ePP075 BILATERAL LIMB-SHAKING TIA: A MASTER OF DISGUISE 1Samantha Simpkins, 1Stephanie Oade, 2,3Stuart Currie, 1Lucy Hicken, 1,3Vasileios Papavasileiou 1Stroke Services, Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK 2Department of Radiology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK 3School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK ePP076 AN 84-YEAR OLD LADY WITH RECURRENT STROKES: COULD THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF A URINE MICROSCOPY TEST HAVE PREVENTED THEM? 1Stephanie Oade, 1Sarah Thompson, 2,3Daniel Warren, 1,3John Bamford, 1,3Vasileios Papavasileiou 1Stroke Services, Department of Neurosciences, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK 2Department of Radiology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK 3School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK ePP077 HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS IN A PATIENT WITH A MEDULLARY LESION 1Gloria Perez-VazquezVALID, 2Esther Rubio-Martin,ONLY IF 3Juan PRESENTED Antonio Jimenez-Casas, 3Luis Garcia-Aragon, 1Jose Luis Puerto-Alonso, 1Jose Luis Bianchi-Llave 1Internal Medicine, La Linea-SAS Hospital, Spain 2Nephrology, La Linea-SAS Hospital, Spain 3Primary Care, Gibraltar Health Care Field Area, Gibraltar

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ePP078 PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF MEAN PLATELET VOLUME IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE Konstantinos Tziomalos, Stella Bouziana, Marianna Spanou, Stavroula Kostaki, Maria Papadopoulou, Stella-Maria Angelopoulou, Maria Tsopozidi, Konstantinos Christou, Christos Savopoulos, Apostolos Hatzitolios First Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP079 ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION IN THOMBOPROPHYLAXIS: REVIEW AND A DERIVED HYPOTHESIS ABOUT THROMBOGENESIS - THE 4TH FACTOR Christos Stefanou ICU, Nicosia General Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus

ePP080 TREATMENT AND EVOLUTION OF CARDIOGENIC SHOCK DUE TO MASSIVE PULMONARY EMBOLISM Sorina-Monica Safciuc, Melania Ciobanu, GinaTutuianu Internal Medicine, Emergency Hospital, Moinesti, Romania

ePP081 PATIENTS DIAGNOSED WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE AND DIED IN 10 DAYS, CORRELATION WITH DYSLIPIDEMIA, HYPERTENSION KAI DIABETES David Symeonidis, Georgios Augouleas, Alkistis Kalesis, Konstantinos Koutsianas, Garyfalia Linardaki, Stavros Antonopoulos B Pathology Department, Tzaneio Pireaus Hospital, Pireaus, Greece

ePP082 THE EVALUATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS ON THE REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION 1Majlinda Zahaj, 1Rozeta Luci, 1Glodiana Sinanaj, 1Brunilda Subashi, 1Denada Selfo, 2Fatmir Luci 1Health Department, Public Health Faculty, University Ismail Qemali of Vlora, Albania 2Internal Diseases Unit, Vlora Regional Hospital, Albania

ePP083 VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED PROTEINURIA IN A SNAKEBITE PATIENT WITH SEVERE HYPERTENSION Christos Demosthenous, Georgios Evangelou, Maria Gavra, Glykeria Tzatzagou A’ Department of Internal Medicine, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

46 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP084 EPIDIMIOLOGY AND RISK FACTORS OF CVAS IN A SEMIRURAL POPULATION Andreas Stylianou, Sophia Christodoulou, Haris Constantinou, Michaela Prastiti, Maria Skarpari, Panagiota Georgiou, Georgos Olympios Department of Internal Medicine, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus ePP085 BRUCELLA ENDOCARDITIS Majedah Allahham, Aref Sandouk Laboratory, Cardiology department, Dar Alshefa Hospital, Damascus, Syria ePP086 ISOLATED ASCITES IN PATIENT WITH SICKLE-CELL DISEASE CAUSED BY ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT AND SEVERE MITRAL REGURGITATION 1,2Christos Zissis, 1Dimitra Maritsa, 3Stamatis Papadatos, 1Efterpi Theodoroula, 1Charalabos Karageorgos, 1Ioannis Lolos, 1Athanasios Kogias, 1Stefanos Milonas 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Trikala, Greece 2Thalassemia Unit, General Hospital of Trikala, Greece 33rd Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens, Greece ePP087 NOVEL TREATMENT OF STROKE AND THE ROLE OF PRECONDITIONING Eirini Chrysovalantou Katsouli, Ilektra-Antonia Mavroeidi Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece ePP088 THE RELATIONSHIP OF CAROTID ARTERY THICKNESS TO LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION AND SURVIVAL IN DIALYSIS PATIENTS. 1Merita Rroji, 1Nereida Spahia, 1Saimir Seferi, 2Majlinda Cafka, 1Alma Idrizi, 1Myftar Barbullushi 1University Hospital Center “ Mother Teresa”, Service of Nephrology, Tirana, Albania 2University Hospital Center” Mother Teresa”, Service of Cardiology, Tirana, Albania ePP089 PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA MIMICKING BOTH ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME AND SEVERE SEPSIS Magdalini Velegraki, Petros Ioannou, Vasiliki Theodorakopoulou, John A. Papadakis, Achilleas Gikas VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED Department of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital of Heraklion, Greece

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ePP090 THE RESTLESS HEART: A CASE REPORT Andrada Camelia Guta, Ana Maria Daraban, Gabriel Sica, Daniela Bartos Emergency Clinical Hospital Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

ePP091 MYXOMA:A RARE TUMOR OF THE HEART RESPONSIBLE FOR RECURRENT EMBOLIC STROKES 1Christos Zissis, 1Efterpi Theodoroula, 1Dimitra Maritsa, 1Charalampos Karageorgos, 1Ioannis Lolos, 2Athanasios Tsiampalis, 1Sofia Veneti,1 Stefanos Milonas 12nd Internal Medicine Clinic, General Hospital of Trikala, Trikala, Greece 2Cardiological Clinic, General Hospital of Trikala, Trikala, Greece

ePP092 STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS ACUTE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS INVOLVING CONCOMITANT NATIVE AND PROSTHETIC VALVE POS- CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY Galini Koursari Vieira, Dúlio Passos, Paula Rocha, Rui MM Victorino, J. Meneses Santos Internal Medicine II, Sector D, Santa Maria Hospital, North Lisbon Central Hospital, Portugal

ePP093 THE IMPACT OF SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH RISK FACTORS IN THE PREVALENCE OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION (AH) IN GREEK URBAN POPULATION 1Ioannis Vrettos, 2Evelina Pappa, 3Chrysoula Belesioti, 1Panagiota Voukelatou, 4Angelos Papadopoulos, 3Dimitris Niakas 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General and Oncology Hospital of Kifissia “Agioi Anargyroi”, Athens, Greece 2Faculty of Social Sciences, Hellenic Open University, Patra, Greece 3National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 41st Regional Health Authority, Athens, Greece

ePP094 USE OF ANGIOTENSIN II RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS IN ANTIHYPERTENSIVE TREATMENT IN THESSALONIKI, GREECE Stamatia MichailidouVALID, Maria ONLY Michailidou, IF Paraskevi PRESENTED Papaioannidou 1st Department of Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

48 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP095 OUTCOME OF CARDIAC ARREST MANAGEMENT AFTER CARDIAC SURGERY 1Nikolin Filipi, 2Kozeta Filipi, 3Jonida Peci 1European Hospital - GVM Care and Research, Tirana, Albania 2Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania 3American Hospital of Tirana, Albania ePP096 CARDIOVASCULAR MANIFESTATIONS IN YOUNG PATIENTS WITH HIATAL HERNIA 1Maria Cristina Bezna, 2Marinela Bezna, 1Doina Carstea, 3Madalina Dumitrescu 1Cardiology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Craiova, Romania 2Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Craiova, Romania 3Family Medicine Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Craiova, Romania ePP097 FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS AND MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION 1Raquel Rodil, 1Paula Mendoza, 2Vincenzo Malafarina, 1Gregorio Tiberio 1Internal Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Spain 2Geriatric Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Spain ePP098 A RARE AND SERIOUS COAGULOPOATHY SECONDARY TO DABIGATRAN USE 1Sema Ucak, 1Rıdvan Sivritepe, 1Damla Ortaboz, 1Ecem Sevim Çalık 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey ePP099 PRE-DIABETIC AND DIABETIC SITUATION ACCOMPANIED BY ALTERED HDL LIPIDOME: AN 1H NMR BASED LIPIDOMIC APPROACH 1Christina Kostara, 1Eleni Bairaktari, 2Moses Elisaf, 2Vasilis Tsimihodimos 1Laboratory of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

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Infectious Diseases ePP100-ePP130

ePP100 SHORT COURSE CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS IN A PATIENT WITH IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA Sarra Evanthia, Christina Stamatopoulou, Panagiota Chalmouki, Constantinos Petrogiannopoulos 1st Department of Internal Medicine, Hellenic Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece

ePP101 INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS BY BRUCELLA SPP 1Andreas Efstathopoulos, 1Thomas Tzimas, 1Dimitrios Patsouras, 1Vassilios Meladinis, 1Gerasimos Baxevanos, 2Efstratios Apostolakis, 1Elias Liapis 1General Hospital of Iannina “G Hatzikosta”, Ioannina, Greece 2University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

ePP102 EPIDEMIOLOGY AND SEROPREVALENCE OF CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV) AMONG GREEK MALE YOUNG ADULTS 1,3Dafni Koumoutsea, 2,3Andreas Nakos, 1,2,3Vasileios German, 1,3Eleftherios Chouliaras, 1Dimitrios Krentiris, 1Athanasios Kikilas, 1Georgios Margaritis, 1Dimitrios Fouskas, 1Dimitrios Tabakopoulos, 1,3Georgios Giannakos 1Sector of Internal Medicine, 401 General Army Hospital of Athens, Greece 2Sector of Internal Medicine, 424 General Military Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece 3Sector of Internal Medicine, 417 Veterans Affairs Hospital of Athens (NIMTS), Greece

ePP103 MONONUCLEOSIS SYNDROME ASSOCIATED WITH CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV) INFECTION IN A PATIENT WITH NO SIGNIFICANT CO -MORBIDITY 1Aikaterini Drylli, 2Vasiliki Mamakou, 3Nikolaos Sabanis 1ENT Department, General Hospital Paidon Pentelis, Athens, Greece 2Department of Internal Medicine, Dromokaiteio Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Nephrology Department, General Hospital of Edessa, Pella, Greece

ePP104 ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE OF URINARY TRACT PATHOGENS AND ANTIMICROBIALVALID THERAPY ONLY IF PRESENTED 1Ariana Milori, 2Eleftheria Miliori, 1Ilias Gkatsis, 1Basiliki Koletti, 1Aikaterini Vogiatzi 1Department of Microbiology, Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Messolonghi, Messolonghi, Greece 2National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

50 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP105 A SUCCESSFULLY TREATED CASE OF RHINOCEREBRAL MUCORMYCOSIS IN A PATIENT WITH IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA AND STEROID DIABETES 1Maria Mylona, 1Pantelis Toskas, 1Paraskeyi Papaioannou, 2Ioannis Deliolanis, 3Georgios Cremlis, 1Stavros Liatis, 1Aggelos Toskas 11st Department of Propaedeutic & Internal Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece 2Microbiology Department, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Ear, Nose & Throat Department, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece ePP106 DISSEMINATED NOCARDIOSIS MIMIKING A METASTATIC DISEASE 1José Luis Puerto-Alonso, 2Armando Falces, 1Gloria Pérez-Vázquez, 1Enrique Sánchez-Relinque, 1José Manuel Gil-Gascón, 3Emilio Campos-Dávila 1Internal Medicine Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain 2Unit of Neumology, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain 3Pharmacy Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain ePP107 PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS FROM STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS: SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT WITH COMBINATION OF INTRAVENOUS AND ORAL ANTIMICROBIALS 1Alkiviadis Ioannou, 1Nikolaos Alexiou, 1Haralambos Giannopoulos, 1Eleftheria Rizou, 1Marina Koupetori, 2Nikolaos Kouris, 2Christoforos Olymbios, 1Styliani Symbardi 11st Department of Internal Medicine “THRIASIO” General Hospital, Elefsina, Greece 2Cardiology Department, “THRIASIO” General Hospital, Elefsina, Greece ePP108 MULTIFOCAL SPLENIC ABSCESS IN IMMUNOCOMPETENT ADULTS DUE TO CAT- SCRATCH DISEASE (CSD): A REPORT OF TWO CASES 1Eleana Gkamprela, 2Nikolaos Papadopoulos, 2Anna Pavlidi, 1Vasilios Papadimitropoulos, 1Maria Pirounaki, 1Spilios Manolakopoulos, 1Dimitrios Vassilopoulos, 2Eirini Sveroni, 2Vasileios German, 1Melanie Deutsch 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, Athens University Medical School, Hippokration Hospital of Athens, Greece 21st department of Internal Medicine, 417 Army Share Fund Hospital of Athens, Greece VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

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ePP109 ACINETOBACTER BAUMANII SPONDYLYTIS FOLLOWING LONG-TERM HOSPITALIZATION Theano Kontopoulou, Androniki Papapostolou, Panteleimon Tsiamalos, Elpida Charalampaki, Eleftheria Kranidioti, Anastasia Mantzavini, Petros Avgerinos 3rd Internal Medicine Department, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens Greece

ePP110 A STUDY OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS STRAINS ISOLATED IN WOUND CULTURES FROM ORTHOPEDIC PATIENTS 1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Apostolina Papadopoulou, 1George Katagis, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1Marina Gerasimou, 1Foteini Adam, 1Panagiotis Christodoulou, 1Konstantinos Tolis, 1Anastasia Pournou 1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece 3Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece

ePP111 A STUDY OF THE INCIDENCE OF GRAM(+) COCCI IN SAMPLES FROM PATIENTS IN THE ICU OF A TERTIARY HOSPITAL AND THEIR RESISTANCE TO ANTIBIOTICS. 1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Athanasios Margaritis, 4Apostolina Papadopoulou, 3Maria Mpolosi, 1Christos Briasoulis, 1Christos Georgiou, 1Lampros Papageorgiou, 1Evaggelia Chrisostomou, 1Anastasia Pournou 1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece 3Intensive Care Unit, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 4Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece

ePP112 A RARE CASE OF ACUTE CERVICAL TRANSVERSE MYELITIS ASSOCIATED WITH STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS BACTEREMIA AND OSTEOMYELITIS 1Stamatis Karakonstantis, 1Despoina Galani, 1Sevasti Maragou, 1Asimina Koulouridi, 1Kalliopi Milaki, 2Periklis Kotsopoulos, 3Konstantinos Psilakis, 3Victoria Stilianaki, 1Charalampos Lydakis 1Internal Medicine Department B, Venizeleio General Hospital, Heraklion, Greece 2Internal Medicine Department, Rethymnon General Hospital, Rethymnon, Greece 3Radiology Department, Venizeleio General Hospital, Heraklion, Greece VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

52 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP113 COLONIZATION OF INTRAVASCULAR CATHETERS OF PATIENTS IN THE ICU IN A TERTIARY HOSPITAL DURING A PERIOD OF 6 YEARS 1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Athanasios Margaritis, 4Apostolina Papadopoulou, 3Maria Mpolosi, 1Christos Briasoulis, 1Christos Georgiou, 1Dimitris Gouneniotis, 1Konstantinos Tolis, 1Anastasia Pournou 1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece 3Intensive Care Unit, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 4Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece ePP114 COMMON CAUSES OF BACTEREMIA IN PATIENTS IN THE ICU 1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Athanasios Margaritis, 1Evaggelia Chrisostomou, 3Maria Mpolosi, 1George Katagis, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1Marina Gerasimou, 4Aristea Zotou, 1Anastasia Pournou 1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece 3Intensive Care Unit, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 4Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece ePP115 INVASIVE INFECTIONS CAUSED BY CANDIDA.SPP IN PATIENTS IN THE ICU IN A TERTIARY HOSPITAL 1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Athanasios Margaritis, 3Maria Bolosi, 1Christos Mitsis, 1Christos Briasoulis, 1Foteini Adam, 1Panagiotis Christodoulou, 1Konstantinos Tolis, 1Anastasia Pournou 1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece 3Intensive Care Unit, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece ePP116 A CASE REPORT OF CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS MENINGIOENCEPHALITIS IN AN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PATIENT Andreas Kessaris, Konstantinos Valakis, Despina Evrenoglou ICU, Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens, Greece VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

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ePP117 ISOLATION OF BACTERIAL SPECIES IN CHILDREN’S URINE CULTURES 1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Vasilis Grammeniatis, 4Apostolina Papadopoulou, 1Christos Mitsis, 1George Katagis, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1Marina Gerasimou, 1Christos Georgiou, 1Anastasia Pournou 1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece 3Pediatric Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 4Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece

ePP118 RARE CASE OF ACUTE Q-FEVER PRESENTING WITH FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN AND REACTIVE ARTHRITIS 1Christos Zissis, 1Dimitra Maritsa, 3Stamatis Papadatos, 1Efterpi Theodoroula, 1Nikolaos Aggelis, 2Eleni Gatsa, 1Stefanos Milonas 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Trikala, Trikala, Greece 2Department oh Hematology, General Hospital of Trikala, Trikala, Greece 33rd Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

ePP119 ISOLATION OF CANDIDA. SPP IN SURGICAL WOUND CULTURES FROM PATIENTS OF A TERTIARY HOSPITAL 1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Apostolina Papadopoulou, 1Evaggelia Chrisostomou, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1Christos Mitsis, 1Christos Briasoulis, 1Marina Gerasimou, 4Aristea Zotou, 1Anastasia Pournou 1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Grevena, Grevena, Greece 3Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece 4Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

ePP120 ROTAVIRUS AND ADENOVIRUS AS CAUSES OF GASTROENTERITIS IN THE PEDIATRIC POPULATION 1Nikolaos Zotos, 2Eirini Tatsina, 3Vasilis Grammeniatis, 4Apostolina Papadopoulou, 1Eleni Mosheta, 1Christos Mitsis, 1Christos Georgiou, 1Marina Gerasimou, 1Evaggelia Chrisostomou, 1Anastasia Pournou 1Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 2Microbiology Department,VALID General ONLY Hospital IF of PRESENTED Grevena, Grevena, Greece 3Pediatric Department, General Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece 4Microbiology Department, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece

54 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP121 PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY (PML) - IRIS IN A PATIENT WITH HIV INFECTION 1Sophia Kalantzi, 2Dimitrios Basoulis, 1Dimitrios Tsilingiris, 2Mina Psichogiou 11st Propaedeutic Internal Medicine Department, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece 21st Internal Medicine Department, Laiko General Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, Greece ePP122 VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN A PATIENT WITH THYMOMA 1Christina Karampampa, 1Aimilia Pelekanou, 1Evangelos Michelakis, 1Maria Agrogianni, 1Anastasia Ioannidou, 2Kalliopi Vallianatou, 3Antigoni Karakosta, 4Nikolaos Tzatzadakis, 1Panagiotis Zormpas, 1Christos Drakoulis 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “AgiosPanteleimon”, Athens, Greece 2Hematology Department, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “AgiosPanteleimon”, Athens, Greece 3Department of Pathology, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “AgiosPanteleimon”, Athens, Greece 4Department of Thoracic Surgery, General State Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “AgiosPanteleimon”, Athens, Greece ePP123 INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA WITH SEPSIS SYMPTOMS FROM YOKENELLA REGENSBURGEI IN GREECE 1Ariana Miliori, 1Ilias Gkatsis, 2Eleftheria Miliori, 1Giannis Ntalakouras, 1Basiliki Koletti, 1Aikaterini Vogiatzi 1Department of Microbiology, Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Messolonghi, Messolonghi, Greece 2National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece ePP124 PHYSICIANS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIPTION 1Ariana Milori, 2Eleftheria Miliori 1Department of Microbiology, General Hospital of Messolonghi, Greece 2National and KapodistrianVALID University ONLY of Athens, IF SchoolPRESENTED of Medicine, Greece

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ePP125 A CASE OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN A YOUNG MAN WITH FEVER, WEIGHT LOSS AND NIGHT SWEATS Georgia Samakidou, Dimitra Tsionara, Ourania Triantafyllou, Armonia Chatzigeorgiou, Konstantinos Krapis, Theodora Konstantoula, Konstantinos Karakousis, Vasileios Lalos, Konstantinos Karamitsos General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

ePP126 URINARY TRACT INFECTION CASES AND HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED CATHETER- ASSOCIATED URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS 1Ariana Milori, 2Eleftheria Miliori 1Department of Microbiology, General Hospital of Messolonghi, Greece 2National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Greece

ePP127 PERITONEAL TUBERCULOSIS: AN ELUSIVE DIAGNOSIS OF PATIENTS WITH ASCITES 1Foteini Chatzivasiloglou, 1Dimitrios Lazaridis, 2Christina Griniouk, 1Dimitrios Papavasileiou, 2Ira Michailidou, 1Thomas Montsenigos, 1Ioannis Nikolopoulos, 1Ioannis Saflianis 11st Internal Medicine Department, Sismanogleion General Hospital, Athens, Greece 22nd Pulmonary Department, Sismanogleion General Hospital, Athens, Greece

ePP128 A PATIENT WITH AN UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS: THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX 1Erietta Polychronopoulou, 1Pinelopi Arvaniti, 1Dimitrios Sagris, 1Argyrios Loukopoulos, 1Georgia Papadamou, 1Nikolaos K. Gatselis, 1Konstantinos P. Makaritsis, 2George K. Koukoulis, 1George N. Dalekos 1Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece 2Department of Pathology, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

ePP129 VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS IN A CRONICALLY HEMODIALYZED PATIENT SUFFERING FROM POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE 1Emmanouil Spanou, 2Christos Paliouras, 3Aggelos Zervos, 1Fotini Lambrianou, 1Giorgos Ntetskas, 1Konstantinos Roufas, 1Nikolaos Karvouniaris, 1Emmanouil Anastasakis,VALID 4Stylianos ONLY Karatapanis IF PRESENTED 1Hematology Department of General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece 2Nefrology Department of General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece 3Hemodialysis Center “Helionephro”, Rhodes, Greece 41st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece

56 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP130 A RARE REASON OF HYPERCALCEMIA: TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS CONFUSED WITH SARCOIDOSIS Sema Ucak, Tuğba Arisoy, Ridvan Sivritepe, Damla Ortaboz, Ecem Sevim Çalik, Beytullah Güner Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Miscellaneous ePP131-ePP166 ePP131 LARYGEAL DYSTONIA AS THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF FAHR’S DISEASE 1José Luis Puerto-Alonso, 2Virginia Delgado-Gil, 1Enrique Sánchez Relinque, 1Gloria Pérez-Vazquez, 1José Manuel Gil-Gascón, 1Pedro Díaz de Souza, 2Pablo Cabezudo 1Internal Medicine Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain 2Neurology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Hospital SAS La Línea, Cádiz, Spain ePP132 PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN IN ELDERLY PATIENTS INTUBATED AND MECHANICALLY VENTILATED IN A MEDICAL WARD 1Fani Kyriakou, 2Paris Armyros, 2Socratis Giovanis, 2Evaggelia Ouranou, 2Georgios Erotokritou 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens, “Ippokration” General Hospital, Athens, Greece 21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Nikaia “Agios Panteleimon”, Athens, Greece ePP133 TRANSMETATARSAL AMPUTATION FOR FOOT GANGRENE: A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos, Chrysanthi Papageorgopoulou, Ioannis Ntouvas, Spyros Papadoulas, Anastasia Kouri, Stavros Kakkos, George Lampropoulos, Ioannis Tsolakis Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Greece VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

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ePP134 GROWTH AND VASCULAR REMODELING FACTORS DURING A BASKETBALL SEASON IN ADOLESCENT BOYS 1Elias Armenis, 2Anastassios Philippou, 1Maria Maridaki, 1Panayiotis Baltopoulos, 3Maria Tsironi 1Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 2Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 3Department of Nursing, University of Peloponnese, Greece

ePP135 THE IMPACT OF COMORBIDITIES IN COMBINED PULMONARY FIBROSIS AND EMPHYSEMA SYNDROME 1Jolanda Nikolla, 2Roland Hasa, 3Hasan Hafizi 1Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, Hygeia Hospital, Tirana, Albania 2Radiology Department, Hygeia, Hospital, Tirana, Albania 3Pulmonology Department, University Hospital “Shefqet Ndroqi”, Tirana, Albania

ePP136 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CROHN DISEASE AND ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS. A CASE REPORT Claudia Ileana Mihailov, Luminita Peniu Department of Medical Semiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ovidius University of Constanta, Clinical Port Hospital of Constanta, IInd Medical Department Constanta, Romania

ePP137 NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS Madalina Duna, Laura Groseanu, Ruxandra Ionescu Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Saint Mary Hospital, Bucharest, Carol Davila University, Bucharest, Roumania

ePP138 RHABDOMYOLYSIS SECONDARY TO OLANZAPINE USE Sema Ucak, Rıdvan Sivritepe, Damla Ortaboz, Ecem Sevim Çalık Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

58 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP139 VIPERA ASPIS ENVENOMATION: EARLY NEUROLOGICAL AND MUSCULAR COMPLICATIONS MIMICKING MYASTHENIA GRAVIS 1Nikolaos Sabanis, 2Eleni Paschou, 3Aikaterini Drylli, 4Antonia Papazoglou, 5Vasiliki Mamakou, 1Eleni Tsotsiou 1Nephrology Department, General Hospital of Edessa, Pella, Greece 2Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Edessa, Pella, Greece 3ENT Department, General Hospital Paidon Pentelis, Athens, Greece 4Surgery Departement, General Hospital Evangellismos, Athens, Greece 5Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital Dromokaiteio, Athens, Greece ePP140 ANTICHOLINERGIC TOXIDROME AFTER INGESTION OF JIMSON WEED REQUIRING INTENSIVE CARE Claudia Lakoniti, Andreas Kessaris, Konstantinos Valakis, Despina Evrenoglou ICU, Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens, Greece ePP141 DAPSONE- INDUCED HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS 1Maria Mylona, 1Pantelis Toskas, 2Panagiota Lambrou, 2Eleni Taktikou, 3Christos F. Kampolis, 2Aggelos Toskas 11st Department of Propaedeutic & Internal Medicine, Laiko General Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece 2Pulmonary Department, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Department of Pathophysiology, Laiko General Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece ePP142 CASE REPORT OF ANTI-TNF DRUG INDUCED LUPUS Dimitra Stathi, Nicolaos Symeonidis, Filio Marineli 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Hellenic Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece ePP143 A WOMAN PRESENTED WITH AN EXTREMELY RAPIDLY EVOLVING AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS)- A CASE REPORT 1Afroditi Spyrou, 1Ioannis Liapis, 2Giorgos Ntetskas, 1Anastasia Kaliotzoglou, 2Eystathia Anastasiou, 2Dimitra Kozikopoulou, 2Nikitas Katsilis, 2Despoina Diakonikola,VALID 2Georgios ONLY Psellakis, IF 2Stylianos PRESENTED Karatapanis 1Neurology Department General Hospital of Rhodes, Greece 21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Greece

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ePP144 WHEN DIPLOPIA REVEALS NEOPLASIA Lilian Sousa, Cátia Santos, Susana Cunha, João Santos Serviço de Medicina II, Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

ePP145 WERNICKE-KORSAKOFF SYNDROME IN A PREGNANT WOMAN WITH HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM- A CASE REPORT 1Afroditi Spirou, 1Ioannis Liapis, 2Maria Stampori, 2Nikitas Katsilis, 1Anastasia Kaliotzoglou, 2Giorgos Ntetskas, 2Eystathia Anastasiou, 2Despina Diakonikola, 2Chrisostomos Pselas, 2Stilianos Karatapanis 1Neurology Department, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes 21st Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Rhodes, Rhodes

ePP146 HOSPITALIZED GERIATRIC PATIENTS WITH HYPONATREMIA: CLINICAL AND LABORATORY CHARACTERISTICS AND DIAGNOSIS IN A TERTIARY CARE MEDICAL CENTER DURING A 2-YEAR PERIOD 1Petros Ioannou, 1Emmanouela Tsagkaraki, 1Konstantinos Fragkiadakis, 2Constantinos Tsioutis, 1Symeon Panagiotakis, 1Achilleas Gikas 1Internal Medicine Department, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece 2School of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Cyprus

ePP147 DIETARY HABITS OF ELDERLY HABITUES IN AN OPEN CARE CENTER Ioannis Kyriazis, Konstantinos Sgouros, Dimitra Stefani, Panagiotis Georgakopoulos, Panagiotis Koutsouris, Ioannis Tsamis, Eftyxia Pouliou, Kalliopi Vallianou, Andreas Marketos, Moysis Lelekis Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Athens, Greece

ePP148 HYPERCALCEMIC CRISIS INDUCED BY ORAL CALCIUM AND VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTS IN POST SURGICAL HYPOPARATHYROIDISM:A CASE REPORT Ourania Triantafyllou, Georgia Samakidou, Dimitra Tsionara, Flora Koumoutsou, Georgios Banis, Konstantinos Krapis, Spiridon Karamagkiolis, Konstantinos Karakousis, Konstantinos Karamitsos Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

60 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP149 CONSTIPATION: AN UNCOMMON PRESENTING SYMPTOM OF PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA 1Theocharis Koufakis, 1Paraskevi Xekouki, 1Juliet Amanda Carmichael, 1Omar Mustafa, 1Jackie Gilbert, 2Dylan Lewis, 3Salvador Diaz-Cano, 1Benjamin Whitelaw, 4Gabriele Galata, 1Simon Aylwin 1Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom 2Department of Radiology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom 3Department of Histopathology, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom 4Department of Endocrine Surgery, King’s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom ePP150 ARE YOU OKAY WITH YOUR OSTEOPOROSIS TREATMENT? Fatih Mehmet Cilingir Internal Medicine, Bafra State Hospital, Samsun, Turkey ePP151 THE CORRELATION BETWEEN GESTATIONAL DIABETES AND SUBCLINICAL THYROID DISEASE 1,2,3,4Yllka Themeli, 5Arian Shtylla, 1,6Elinda Gjata, 1,2,7Daniela Teferici, 1,8Enkeleda Sinaj, 9Fatjona Kamberi, 1,7Floreta Kurti, 1Brizida Refatllari 1Technical Medical Science Faculty, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania 2“Med.al” Diagnostic Center, Tirana, Albania 3“Continental” Hospital, Tirana, Albania 4“Promed” Diagnostic Center, Tirana, Albania 5Obstetric Gynecology Maternity Hospital “Koco Gliozheni”, Tirana, Albania 6Obstetric Gynecology Clinic “Gjata”, Tirana, Albania 7UHC “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania 8“Fisiomed”, Tirana, Albania 9Faculty of Public Health, University of Vlora, Albania ePP152 SEVERE COMPLICATION OF ACQUIRED HYPOTHYROIDISM OR LATE ONSET OF PSEUDO-PENDRED SYNDROME? 1Aikaterini Drylli, 2Eleni Paschou, 3Vasiliki Mamakou, 4Antonia Papazoglou, 1Nikolaos Sabanis 1ENT Department,VALID General Hospital ONLY Paidon Pentelis, IF PRESENTED Athens, Greece 2Nephrology Department, General Hospital of Edessa, Greece 3Department of Internal Medicine, Dromokaiteio Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, Greece 4Surgery Department, General Hospital Evangelismos, Athens, Greece

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ePP153 METFORMIN REDUCES TSH IN HYPOTHYROID TYPE 2 DIABETIC PATIENTS 1,2,3,4Yllka Themeli, 1,5Enkeleda Sinaj, 6Fatjona Kamberi, 1,2,8Daniela Teferici, 7Arian Shtylla, 1,8Floreta Kurti, 1Brizida Refatllari 1Technical Medical Science Faculty, University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania 2“Med.al” Diagnostic Center, Tirana, Albania 3“Continental” Hospital, Tirana, Albania 4“Promed” Diagnostic Center, Tirana, Albania 5“Fisiomed”, Tirana, Albania 6Faculty of Public Health, University of Vlora, Albania 7Obstetric Gynecology Maternity Hospital “Koco Gliozheni”, Tirana, Albania 8UHC “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania

ePP154 TRIGLYCERIDES, THE COMMON LINK BETWEEN HYPONATRAEMIA AND PANCREATITIS Lilian Sousa, Cátia Santos, Vera Frazão Vieira, Susana Cunha, João Santos Serviço de Medicina II, Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

ePP155 THE HIGHEST HbA1C LEVEL OF ON ELDERLY PATIENT WITH NEWLY DIAGNOSED DIABETES MELLITUS IN OUR CLINIC Sema Ucak, Rıdvan Sivritepe, Damla Ortaboz, Ecem Sevim Çalık Department of Internal Medicine, University of Health Sciences Umraniye Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul

ePP156 METFORMIN-ASSOCIATED LACTIC ACIDOSIS: AN INTERESTING CASE REPORT Ioanna Papagiouvanni, Nikolaos Staikoglou, Dimitra Valkanidou, Petros Doumtsis, Emmanouil Sinakos, Apostolos Dougalis, Theodora Oikonomou, Evangelos Cholongitas 4th Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

ePP157 BEATING DIABETES: PERSONALISED APPROACH AND COMPLIMENTARY TREATMENT OF DIABETIC FOOT 1Alexandros Kamaratos,VALID 2ChristosTsagkaris ONLY IF, 2Stavros PRESENTED Tsakopoulos 11st Internal Medicine Department, Tzaneio General Hospital of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece 2Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

62 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece E-POSTER ePP158 PREVALENCE OF THYROID DISEASE AMONG GREEK PATIENTS WITH TYPE 1 AND TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS ATTENDING AN OUTPATIENT DIABETES CENTER Maria Barmpari, Maria Kokkorou, Anastasia Micheli, Irene Alexiou, Eleftheria Spanou, Marina Noutsou, Anastasia Thanopoulou Diabetes Center, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokratio General Hospital of Athens, Greece, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece ePP159 PREVALENCE OF METABOLIC SYNDROME IN A DIABETIC ELDERLY POPULATION: FEATURES AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS 2Ioannis Kyriazis, 1Konstantinos Sgouros, 1Kleoniki Georgousi, 1Dimitra Stefani, 1Panagiotis Koutsouris, 1Konstantina Kyre, 1Ioannis Kaxrimanidis, 1Kalliopi Vallianou, 1Eftyxia Pouliou, 1Moysis Lelekis 1Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece 2Diabetes Outpatient Clinic, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece ePP160 ACHIEVING TREATMENT TARGETS IN A DIABETIC ELDERLY POPULATION 2Ioannis Kyriazis, 1Konstantinos Sgouros, 1Dimitra Stefani, 1Kalafatis Emanouil, 1Panagiotis Koutsouris, 1Athanasios Drosos, 1Andreas Marketos, 1Moysis Lelekis 1Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece 2Diabetes Outpatient Clinic, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece ePP161 COMORBIDITY IN OBESE PATIENTS 2Ioannis Kyriazis, 1Dimitra Stefani, 1Emanouil Kalafatis, 1Panagiotis Georgakopoulos, 1Kaliopi Vallianou, 1Ioannis Tsamis, 1Eftyxia Pouliou, 1Moysis Lelekis 1Internal Medicine Department, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece 2Diabetes Outpatient Clinic, General Hospital of Athens KAT, Greece ePP162 CLIPPERS: A NEW INFLAMMATORY DISEASE OF CNS Sophia Christodoulou, Ioanna Nikolaidou, Haris Constantinou, Sophia Filippidou, Maria Skarpari, Georgos Olympios, Andreas Stylianou Department of Internal Medicine, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus VALID ONLY IF PRESENTED

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ePP163 A WOMAN WITH EPISODES OF FEVER AND LIMB SWELLING 1Eleni Mostratou, 1Konstantinos Pittas, 1Petros Savourdos, 1Ioannis Lianos, 1Nikolaos Simeonidis, 2Nikolaos Zervos, 3Georgios Delimpasis, 4Margaritis Tsantopoulos, 4Konstantinos Dritsakos, 5Dimitrios Hatzigeorgiou 12nd Department of Internal Medicine, 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece 2Rheumatology Department 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece 3Magnetic Resorance Imaging Department 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece 4Pathology Department 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece 5Commander of 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece

ePP164 ACUTE ONSET OF SARCOIDOSIS IN A HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT WHO WAS DIAGNOSED WITH LOFGREN’S SYNDROME 1Nikolaos Sabanis, 1Eleni Paschou, 2Drylli Aikaterini, 3Vasiliki Mamakou, 4Eleni Tsotsiou 1Nephrology Department, General Hospital of Edessa, Pella, Greece 2ENT Clinic, General Hospital Paidon Pentelis, Athens, Greece 3Department of Internal Medicine, Dromokaiteio Psychiatric Hospital, Athens, Greece 4Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Edessa, Pella, Greece

ePP165 ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE AS MANIFESTATION OF ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME IN A YOUNG WOMAN UNDER RIVAROXABAN TREATMENT 1Nikolaos Varsamis, 1Evaggelia Theodorou, 1Nikolaos Metsikas, 1Thomas Tzimas, 1Lambros Raptis, 1Ilias Liappis, 2Niki Tsifetaki 1Internal Medicine Department, Ioannina General Hospital, Ioannina, Greece 2Rheumatology Department, Ioannina General Hospital, Ioannina, Greece

ePP166 COULD BE USED RHEUMATOID FACTOR, ANTI-CYCLIC CITRULLINATED PEPTIDE AND AUTOANTIBODIES AGAINST MUTATED CITRULLINATED VIMENTIN TO PREDICT THE RESPONSE TO BIOLOGIC THERAPY IN RHEUMATOID ARTHITIS? 1Bogdan Ion Gavrila, 1Claudia Ciofu, 1Carina Mihai, 1Mihai Bojinca, 1Victor Stoica, 2Dan Ciotaru, 2Mihaela Surcel, 2Adriana Munteanu, 2Cornel Ursaciuc, 3Eugenia Panaitescu 1Department ofVALID Internal Medicine ONLY and Rheumatology, IF PRESENTED Dr. I. Cantacuzino Hospital “Carol Davila”, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania 2INCD, “Victor Babes”, Bucharest, Romania 3Dr. I. Cantacuzino Hospital “Carol Davila”, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Medical Informatics and Biostatistics, Bucharest, Romania

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AKOVA MURAT DE BOER YNTO Professor of Medicine, Attending Gastroenterologist, Department of Physician, Infectious Diseases Gastroenterology and Hepatology, VU Department, Hacettepe University School University Medical Center, Amsterdam, of Medicine, Department of Diseases, The Netherlands Ankara, Turkey BOUTATI ELENI ALEXOPOULOU ALEXANDRA Associate Professor of Medicine, Diabetes, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Second Infectious Diseases, Second Department Department of Internal Medicine, Medical of Propaedeutic Medicine, University School, National & Kapodistrian University General Hospital of Athens “Attikon”, of Athens, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece Athens, Greece BURNIER MICHEL ANSTEE QUENTIN Professor of Nephrology, Head, Service of Professor of Experimental Hepatology, Nephrology and Hypertension, University Honorary Consultant Hepatologist, Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK VAN BUUREN R HENK Gastroenterologist, Department of BASKOZOS IOANNIS Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Secretary General of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Ministry of Health, WHO Europe Board Rotterdam, The Netherlands Member, Athens, Greece CHOLONGITAS EVANGELOS BLANK MIRI Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor of Immunology, Department of Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Microbiology and Clinical Immunology, Sciences, Aristotle University of Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv Thessaloniki, Forth Academic Department University, Head, Research Unit, of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Zabludowicz Center for Autoimmune General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Greece Israel DALEKOS N. GEORGE BLOT STIJN Professor of Medicine, President, Institute Full Professor, Department of Internal of Internal Medicine and Hepatology, Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health President, Hellenic Association for the Study Science, Research Professor, Ghent of the Liver, Vice President, Internal Medicine University, Ghent, Belgium Society of Greece, Head, Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

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DEUTCH MELANI ELISAF MOSES Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine Professor of Medicine, Director, Second and Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National University General Hospital of Ioannina, & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Ioannina, Greece Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital of Athens, FERRO JOSE Greece Chairman, Full Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurosciences and Mental DICHGANS MARTIN Health, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Professor, Director, Institute for Stroke Portugal and Dementia Research, Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), FLOREANI ANNAROSA Munich, Germany Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, Department of Surgery, Oncology and DIMITRIADIS GEORGE Gastroenterology, University of Padova, Professor of Pathology, Medical School, Padova, Italy University of Athens, Director, Second Propaedeutic Medicine, Research Unit GATSELIS K. NIKOLAOS and Diabetes Center, University General Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hospital of Athens “Attikon”, Athens, Department of Medicine & Research Greece Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, DIMOPOULOS GEORGE Greece Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Intensive Care, GEORGOPOULOS SOTIRIOS University General Hospital of Athens Director, Department of Gastroenterology, “Attikon”, Medical School University of Athens Medical Center, Paleo Faliro Athens, Athens, Greece General Hospital, Athens, Greece

DOURAKIS SPYRIDON GIANNITSIOTI EFTHYMIA Professor of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine Consultant and Hepatology, Second Department of Infectious Diseases Specialist, Internal Medicine, Medical School, Forth Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Medical School, University of Athens, University General Hospital of Athens EKSTEDT MATTIAS “Attikon”, Athens, Greece Senior Lecturer, Specialist in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, GUILLEVIN LOIC Linköping, Sweden Professor of Medicine, Chairman, FDIME Research Working Group Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France

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HADJICHRISTODOULOU CHRISTOS KOHRMANN MARTIN Professor of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Assistant Professor, Vice Chairman, Head, Peripheral Public Heath Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Essen, Thessaly, Medical Department, University Germany of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece KOSKINAS JOHN HADZIYANNIS J. STEPHANOS Professor of Internal Medicine - Professor of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Faculty of Medicine, Epidemiology, Hepatology, Research School of Health Sciences, National Associate, Second Department of and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medicine, Athens University, Hippokration Second Academic Department of Internal Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece Medicine, Hippokration General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece HIRSCHFIELD GIDEON Professor of Autoimmune Liver Disease, KOTSIS VASILIOS Honorary Consultant, Transplant Associate Professor of Medicine, Aristotle Hepatologist, Centre for Liver Research, University, Thessaloniki, Greece NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK LAMBADIARI VAIA Associate Professor of Pathology - HOFMANN THOMAS Diabetes, Second Propaedeutic Medicine WHO Regional Office for Europe, Area Research Unit and Diabetes Centre, Coordinator IHR, Division of Health University of Athens, University General Emergencies and Communicable Hospital of Athens “Attikon”, Athens, Greece Diseases, Copenhagen, Denmark LIBERAL RODRIGO HOVINGH KEES G. Senior Lecturer, Institute of Liver Studies Internist - Vascular Medicine Specialist, King‘s College, London, School of Staff, Member, Department of Vascular Medicine, Denmark Hill, London, UK Medicine, Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, LIP GREGORY The Netherlands Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Birmingham, Adjunct JAMIN CHRISTOPHE Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences, Associate Professor, Laboratory of Thrombosis Research Unit, Aalborg Immunology and Immunotherapy, Brest University, Denmar, UK University Medical School, Brest, France LOPES JOSÉ ANTÓNIO JORDAN JENS Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Professor of Medicine, DLR, Director, Lisbon Department of Nephrology and Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Cologne, Renal Transplantation, Centro Hospitalar Germany Lisboa Norte, EPE, Lisbon, Portugal

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MAKARITSIS KONSTANTINOS MONTRAVERS PHILIPPE Associate Professor of Medicine, Head, Department of Anaesthesiology Department of Medicine & Research and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Bichat- Laboratory of Internal Medicine, University Claude Bernard University Hospital of Thessaly Medical School, University (University Paris VII Denis Diderot), Paris, Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece France

MANNUCCI PIER MANNUCCIO MOUCHTOURI VARVARA Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine, Manager, EU SHIPSAN ACT Joint University Hospital of Milan, Angelo Action, Department of Hygiene and Bianchi Bonomi Haemophilia and Epidemiology, University of Thessaly, Thrombosis Centre, Milan, Italy Larissa, Greece

MANOUSSAKIS N. MENELAOS NILSSON PETER Professor of Rheumatology-Immunology, Professor in Clinical Cardiovascular Department of Pathophysiology, School Research, Department of Clinical Sciences, of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian Lund University, Director of the Strategic University of Athens, Athens, Greece Research Network, Epidemiology for Health, Lund University, Malmo, Sweden MARAÑON CONCEPCION Senior Researcher, GENYO Centre, NTAIOS GEORGE Granada, Spain Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Larissa MATTLE HEINRICH University Hospital, University of Thessaly, Senior Consultant, University Department Larissa, Greece of Neurology, Bern, Switzerland PACKARD J CHRIS MENICHETTI FRANCESCO Professor of Vascular Biochemistry, Senior Professor of Infectious Diseases, University Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, of Pisa, Head, Infectious Diseases Unit, Glasgow, UK Cisanello Hospital, Pisa, Italy PALSSON RUNOLFUR MENUCCI DANIEL LINS President, European Federation of Internal Team Leader Ports, Airports and Ground Medicine, Professor of Medicine, University Crossings, IHR Capacity Assessment, of Iceland, Chief, Division of Nephrology, Development & Maintenance, WHO, Lyon, Landspitali - The National University France Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

MONTANO NICOLA Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, President Elect, European Federation of Internal Medicine, Milan, Italy

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PAPANAS NIKOLAOS RIZZO MANFREDI Associate Professor of Internal Medicine Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, - Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetes Center, University of Palermo, Associate Professor Second Department of Internal Medicine, of Internal Medicine, University of South Democritus University of Thrace, University Carolina, USA, Deputy Scientific Director, Hospital of Alexandroupolis, President of Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science the Hellenic Diabetes Association (HDA), and Technology, Palermo, Italy Alexandroupolis, Greece SAMONAKIS DIMITRIOS PAPAVASILEIOU VASILEIOS Consultant in Gastroenterology Consultant in Stroke Medicine, Leeds and Hepatology, Department of Teaching, Hospitals NHS Trust, Senior Gastroenterologist, University General Honorary Lecturer School of Medicine, Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Crete, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Greece

PARES ALBERT SAMSON MAXIME Professor of Medicine, University of MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine Barcelona, Senior Consultant, Liver Unit, and Clinical Immunology, Dijon University Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain Hospital, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France PEDERSEN TERJE ROLF Professor, Senior Consultant University SERENI DIANIEL of Oslo, Retired Head of Research, Centre President, Foundation for the for Preventive Medicine, Oslo University Development of Internal Medicine in Hospital, Ullevål, Norway Europe (FDIME), Paris, France

PUTAALA JUKKA SPENGOS KONSTANTINOS Stroke Neurologist, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Helsinki Chairman, European Stroke Conference, University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland Athens, Greece

RATZIU VLAD STRBIAN DANIEL Professor of Hepatology, University Pierre Associate Professor, Neurologist, Chief et Marie Curie Hospital La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Doctor, Emergency Neurological Services, Paris, France Chairman, Stroke Trials Unit, Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Central RENAUDINEAU YVES Hospital, Helsinki, Finland Professor of Immunology, Laboratory of Immunology, Head, Service of Immunology and Intrenal Medicine, Brest University Medical School, Brest, France

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TOPLAK HERMANN VOULGARELIS MICHAEL Specialist for Endocrinology and Associate Professor in Hematology, Metabolism, Professor of Medicine, in Department of Pathophysiology, charge of the Medical Curriculum in School of Medicine, National and Internal Medicine, Medical University Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Graz, President, EASO, Graz, Austria Greece

TSOCHATZIS EMMANUEL WEDEMEYER HEINER Senior Clinical Lecturer, Consultant Professor, Managing Senior Staff Hepatologist, London, UK Physician & Principal Investigator, Hannover, Germany UNAL SERHAT Professor of Medicine, Chair, Department WEIMAR CHRISTIAN of Medicine , Medical Faculty, Hacettepe Senior Consultant, Professor of Neurology, University, Ankara, Turkey University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

VALENSI PAUL YURDAYDIN CIHAN Professor, Head of the Departments of Chef, Department of Gastroenterology Endocrinology-Diabetology-Nutrition of University of Ankara Medical School, Jean Verdier Hospital (Bondy), René Muret Ankara, Turkey Hospital (Sevran) and Avicenne hospital (Bobigny), Paris-Nord University, Paris, ZANCHETTI ALBERTO France Scientific Director, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Emeritus Professor of VEMMOS KONSTANTINOS Internal Medicine, University of Milan, Stroke Internist, Consultant, Hellenic Milan, Italy Cardiovascular Research Society, University of Athens, Athens General ZIEGLER DAN Hospital “Alexandra”, Athens, Greece Professor, Institute for Clinical Diabetology, Diabetes Center, Heinrich VERGANI DIEGO Heine University, Leibniz Center for Professor of Liver Immunopathology, Diabetes Research, Department of Institute of Liver Studies, King’s College Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical Hospital, London, UK Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Dόsseldorf, Germany VLACHOΥIANNOPOULOS PANAGIOTIS Professor of Medicine-Immunology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

70 9th International Congress of Internal Medicine, March 9-11, 2017, Athens, Greece SPONSORS/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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