About the Authors
- Ioannis Mitroulis
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ioannis Mitroulis, Konstantinos Kambas
Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece
- Konstantinos Kambas
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ioannis Mitroulis, Konstantinos Kambas
Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece
- Akrivi Chrysanthopoulou
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Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece
- Panagiotis Skendros
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Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece
- Eirini Apostolidou
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Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece
- Ioannis Kourtzelis
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Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece
- Georgios I. Drosos
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Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Democritus University of Thrace, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece
- Dimitrios T. Boumpas
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Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University Hospital, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Konstantinos Ritis
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* E-mail: ritis2@otenet.gr
Affiliation First Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis, Greece
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: IM KK PS IK DTB KR. Performed the experiments: KK IM AC EA. Analyzed the data: IM KK AC EA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS GID. Wrote the paper: IM KK DTB KR.