Prof. Christos S. Katsouras

School of Health Sciences

University of Ioannina, Greece

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

2000 University of Ioannina, Greece

1998 Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece

1994 University of Athens (National and Kapodistrial University of Athens), Greece

Publications (Selected)

1. Chen, Q. F., Lu, Y., Katsouras, C. S., Peng, Y., Sun, J., Li, M., ... & Zhou, X. D. (2025). Characteristics, outcomes and the necessity of continued guideline-directed medical therapy in patients with heart failure with improved ejection fraction. Annals of medicine, 57(1), 2442535.
2. Chen, Q. F., Chen, L., Katsouras, C. S., Liu, C., Shi, J., Liang, D., ... & Zhou, X. D. (2025). Global burden of heart failure and its underlying causes in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021. European Heart Journal-Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, 11(4), 493-509.
3. Ballas, C., Katsouras, C. S., Tourmousoglou, C., Siaravas, K. C., Tzourtzos, I., & Alexiou, C. (2025). A Review on the Etiologies of the Development of Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery. Biomolecules, 15(3), 374.
4. Chen, Q. F., Zhou, X., Katsouras, C. S., Ni, C., Zhu, H., Liu, C., ... & Zhou, X. D. (2025). Atrial and ventricular functional mitral regurgitation: prevalence, characteristics, outcomes, and disease progression. European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging, 26(3), 545-556.
5. Siaravas, K. C., Moula, A. I., Tzourtzos, I. S., Ballas, C. E., & Katsouras, C. S. (2025). Acute and Chronic Cardiovascular Adverse Events in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Systematic Review. Cancers, 17(3), 541.
6. Chen, Q. F., Katsouras, C. S., Liu, C., Shi, J., Luan, X., Ni, C., ... & Zhou, X. D. (2025). Gender‐specific risks for incident cancer in patients with different heart failure phenotypes. ESC Heart Failure, 12(1), 497-507.
7. Zhou, X. D., Chen, Q. F., Targher, G., Byrne, C. D., Mantzoros, C. S., Zhang, H., ... & Zheng, M. H. (2024). Global burden of disease attributable to metabolic risk factors in adolescents and young adults aged 15–39, 1990–2021. Clinical Nutrition, 43(12), 391-404.
8. Zhang, H., Zhou, X. D., Shapiro, M. D., Lip, G. Y., Tilg, H., Valenti, L., ... & Zheng, M. H. (2024). Global burden of metabolic diseases, 1990–2021. Metabolism, 160, 155999.
9. Zhou, X. D., Chen, Q. F., Yang, W., Zuluaga, M., Targher, G., Byrne, C. D., ... & Zheng, M. H. (2024). Burden of disease attributable to high body mass index: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. EClinicalMedicine, 76.
10. Chen, Q. F., Zou, J., Katsouras, C. S., You, S., Zhou, J., Ge, H. B., ... & Zhou, X. D. (2024). Clinical characteristics and outcomes in patients with apical and nonapical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Journal of the American Heart Association, 13(19), e036663.
11. Tzourtzos, I., Lakkas, L., & Katsouras, C. S. (2024). Right ventricular longitudinal strain-related indices in acute pulmonary embolism. Medicina, 60(10), 1586.
12. Samara, I., Moula, A. I., Moulas, A. N., & Katsouras, C. S. (2024). The effect of retinoids in vascular smooth muscle cells: from phenotyping switching to proliferation and migration. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(19), 10303.
13. Karanasiou, G. S., Loukas, V. S., Tachos, N. S., Kyriakidis, S., Sakellarios, A. I., Kotoulas, G., ... & Fotiadis, D. I. (2024, July). In Silico Scenario of Bare Metal Stent and Drug-Eluting Stent Performance modeling in Patient-Specific Arteries: A Comparative Analysis. In 2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
14. Chen, Q. F., Ni, C., Katsouras, C. S., Liu, C., Yao, H., Lian, L., ... & Zhou, X. D. (2024). Obesity paradox in patients with acute coronary syndrome: is malnutrition the answer?. The Journal of Nutrition, 154(6), 1853-1860.
15. Rammos, A., Bechlioulis, A., Chatzipanteliadou, S., Sioros, S. A., Floros, C. D., Stamou, I., ... & Naka, K. K. (2024). The Role of Prognostic Scores in Assessing the Prognosis of Patients Admitted in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: Emphasis on Heart Failure Patients. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 13(10), 2982.
16. Kardakari, O., Ballas, C., Lakkas, L., Gartzonikas, I., Giannou, S., Lagou, E., ... & Katsouras, C. S. (2024). Quality of life after pulmonary embolism: Prospective validation of the Greek version of the PEmb-QoL questionnaire. Hellenic Journal of Cardiology, 77, 36-43.
17. Samara, I., Moulas, A. N., Karanasiou, G., Papadimitropoulou, T., Fotiadis, D., Michalis, L. K., & Katsouras, C. S. (2024). Is it time for a retinoic acid-eluting stent or retinoic acid-coated balloon? Insights from experimental studies of systemic and local delivery of retinoids. Hellenic Journal of Cardiology, 76, 75-87.
18. Ballas, C., Lakkas, L., Kardakari, O., Konstantinidis, A., Exarchos, K., Tsiara, S., ... & Katsouras, C. S. (2023). What is the real incidence of right ventricular affection in patients with acute pulmonary embolism?. Acta Cardiologica, 78(10), 1089-1098.

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