Ourania S. Kotsiou

Prognostic Utility and Clinical Impact of Soluble Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor in Adult Emergency and Acute-Care Patients: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis

Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) reflects systemic immune activation and biological vulnerability and has been proposed as a cross-diagnostic prognostic biomarker in emergency care. We systematically reviewed full-text English-language reports published fr...

Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction and Exercise Intolerance in COPD and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Extracellular Vesicles as Candidate Mediators of a Lung–Muscle Axis

Skeletal muscle dysfunction and exercise intolerance are major extrapulmonary manifestations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), yet their severity is not fully predicted by pulmonary impairment. This narrative review examines...