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Anestis Charalampopoulos1 \*, Nikolaos Koliakos2 , George Bagias2 , Georgia Bompetsi2 , Nikolaos Zavras1 , Dimitrios Davris3 , Frederich Farrugia4 and Konstantinos Kopanakis3

1 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens Medical School, Attikon University Hospital of Athens, Greece

2 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attikon University Hospital of Athens, Greece

3 National Health System, General Hospital of Halkis, Evia Province, Greece

4 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

\*Address all correspondence to: achalaral@med.uoa.gr

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