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Athanasios G. Tzioufas is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with notable contributions across a spectrum of subfields including physiology, rheumatology, surgery, immunology, and pathology and forensic medicine. This broad range reflects a diverse approach to medical science, particularly within autoimmune and inflammatory disorders.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions
  • Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Vasculitis and related conditions
  • Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases
  • Inflammasome and immune disorders
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Tzioufas has published extensively in key rheumatology and immunology journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Mediterranean Journal of Rheumatology
  • Endocrine Abstracts

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers such as:

  • "Autoantibodies related to systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases in severely ill patients with COVID-19," 2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • "2020 international consensus on ANCA testing beyond systemic vasculitis," 2020, Autoimmunity Reviews
  • "Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the CSF, blood-brain barrier dysfunction, and neurological outcome," 2020, Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • "Pulmonary infection by SARS-CoV-2 induces senescence accompanied by an inflammatory phenotype in severe COVID-19: possible implications for viral mutagenesis," 2022, European Respiratory Journal
  • "Primary Sjögren's Syndrome of Early and Late Onset: Distinct Clinical Phenotypes and Lymphoma Development," 2020, Frontiers in Immunology

Collaboration forms a significant aspect of Tzioufas's research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Andreas V. Goules
  • Loukas Chatzis
  • Vasileios C. Pezoulas
  • Dimitrios I. Fotiadis
  • Chiara Baldini

Best Publications

  • Treating rheumatoid arthritis to target: 2014 update of the recommendations of an international task force

    Josef S Smolen;Ferdinand C Breedveld;Gerd R Burmester;Vivian Bykerk

  • EULAR Sjögren's syndrome disease activity index: development of a consensus systemic disease activity index for primary Sjögren's syndrome

    Raphaele Seror;Philippe Ravaud;Simon J. Bowman;Gabriel Baron

  • EULAR recommendations for the management of Sjögren's syndrome with topical and systemic therapies.

    Manuel Ramos-Casals;Pilar Brito-Zerón;Stefano Bombardieri;Hendrika Bootsma

  • EULAR Sjögren's Syndrome Patient Reported Index (ESSPRI): development of a consensus patient index for primary Sjögren's syndrome

    Raphaele Seror;Philippe Ravaud;Xavier Mariette;Xavier Mariette;Hendrika Bootsma

  • Single-Cell Analysis of Human Mononuclear Phagocytes Reveals Subset-Defining Markers and Identifies Circulating Inflammatory Dendritic Cells.

    Charles Antoine Dutertre;Charles Antoine Dutertre;Etienne Becht;Sergio Erdal Irac;Sergio Erdal Irac;Ahad Khalilnezhad;Ahad Khalilnezhad

  • Treatment of primary Sjögren syndrome: a systematic review.

    Manuel Ramos-Casals;Athanasios G. Tzioufas;John H. Stone;Antoni Sisó

  • High prevalence of anti-cardiolipin and other autoantibodies in a healthy elderly population.

    M N Manoussakis;A G Tzioufas;M P Silis;P J Pange

  • Primary Sjögren's syndrome: new clinical and therapeutic concepts

    Manuel Ramos-Casals;Athanasios G Tzioufas;Josep Font

  • EULAR Sjögren's syndrome disease activity index (ESSDAI): a user guide.

    Raphaèle Seror;Simon J Bowman;Pilar Brito-Zeron;Elke Theander

  • Defining disease activity states and clinically meaningful improvement in primary Sjögren's syndrome with EULAR primary Sjögren's syndrome disease activity (ESSDAI) and patient-reported indexes (ESSPRI)

    Raphaèle Seror;Raphaèle Seror;Hendrika Bootsma;Alain Saraux;Simon J Bowman

  • Characterization of systemic disease in primary Sjögren's syndrome: EULAR-SS Task Force recommendations for articular, cutaneous, pulmonary and renal involvements

    Manuel Ramos-Casals;Pilar Brito-Zerón;Raphaèle Seror;Hendrika Bootsma

  • Mixed monoclonal cryoglobulinemia and monoclonal rheumatoid factor cross-reactive idiotypes as predictive factors for the development of lymphoma in primary Sjögren's syndrome.

    Athanasios G. Tzioufas;Dimitra S. Boumba;Fotini N. Skopouli;Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos

  • Validation of EULAR primary Sjogren's syndrome disease activity (ESSDAI) and patient indexes (ESSPRI)

    Raphaèle Seror;Elke Theander;Johan G. Brun;Manel Ramos-Casals

  • Standardisation of labial salivary gland histopathology in clinical trials in primary Sjögren's syndrome

    Benjamin A. Fisher;Roland Jonsson;Roland Jonsson;Troy Daniels;Michele Bombardieri

  • Anaemia in systemic lupus erythematosus: from pathophysiology to clinical assessment

    Stavroula Giannouli;Michael Voulgarelis;Panayiotis D Ziakas;Athanasios G Tzioufas

  • Pathogenetic mechanisms in the initiation and perpetuation of Sjögren's syndrome

    Michael Voulgarelis;Athanasios G. Tzioufas

  • Adalimumab alone and in combination with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis in clinical practice: the Research in Active Rheumatoid Arthritis (ReAct) trial

    Gerd R Burmester;Xavier Mariette;Carlomaurizio Montecucco;Indalecio Monteagudo-Sáez

  • Clinically significant and biopsy-documented renal involvement in primary Sjögren syndrome.

    Andreas Goules;Stavroula Masouridi;Athanasios G. Tzioufas;John P. A. Ioannidis

  • The Th1/Th2 cytokine balance changes with the progress of the immunopathological lesion of Sjogren's syndrome.

    D. I. Mitsias;A. G. Tzioufas;C. Veiopoulou;E. Zintzaras

  • Accuracy of anti-ribosomal P protein antibody testing for the diagnosis of neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus: an international meta-analysis.

    Fotini B. Karassa;Antonella Afeltra;Ales Ambrozic;Deh-Ming Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos
Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Xavier Mariette
Xavier Mariette University of Paris-Saclay
Manuel Ramos-Casals
Manuel Ramos-Casals Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
Hendrika Bootsma
Hendrika Bootsma University Medical Center Groningen
Marinos C. Dalakas
Marinos C. Dalakas Thomas Jefferson University
Dimitrios I. Fotiadis
Dimitrios I. Fotiadis University of Ioannina
Stefano Bombardieri
Stefano Bombardieri University of Pisa
Yehuda Shoenfeld
Yehuda Shoenfeld Sheba Medical Center
Thomas Dörner
Thomas Dörner Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Philippe Ravaud
Philippe Ravaud Université Paris Cité

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