Athanasios Krasas THORACIC SURGEON

• European board of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery

• Since June 2010 Thoracic surgery specialist in “HYGEIA” HOSPITAL

Education Experience:

• Match Seminar Educator Athens Greece 2016

Clinical Interest:

• Minimal Invasive Techniques (VATS, ROBOTIC),
• Thoracic oncology
• Pleural diseases (mesothelioma)
• Βronchoscopic techniques and tracheal stent placement.

Research Interest:

• Εvolution of the minimal invasive techniques (single incision thoracic surgery-SITES-natural orifice thoracic endoscopic surgery-NOTES).

• Best scientific paper of the Hellenic Surgical Society “Total parathyreoidectomy in kidney transplant patients. A review of 25 patients”
• Best thoracic surgery oral presentation of the Hellenic Thoracic Society in the 8th Panhellenic Congress “VATS lobectomy in a baby of 17 months with CCAM

• “VATS and lung cancer” in “Thoracic Atlas” K. Syrigos, J. Gkiozos, A. Charpidou 2012.

• “SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PANCREATIC CANCER: RADICAL OPERATION IS THE PROCEDURE OF CHOICE” K. Daskalakis, E. Varada, S. Kapiris, T. Mavromatis, C. Georgiadis, A. Krassas, G. Diaman-topoulos Acta Chirurgica Belgica Supl. 103, September 2003:11
• «LE DIAGNOSTIQUE CHIRURGICAL EN PATHOLOGIE PLEURALE ». F. Le Pimpec-Barthes, P. Berna, L. Casbas, A. Krassas, A. Badia, M. Riquet. Rev. Pneumol Clin 2006 ;62 : 137-141. Review-[French].
• “THORACIC EMPYEMA AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC ADJUSTABLE GASTRIC BANDING. A RARE COMPLICATION”. Krassas A, Mallios D, Boulia S, Kakaris S. Obes Surg. 2010;20(10):1459-61.
• “TREATMENT OF COMPLICATED PULMONARY ASPERGILLOMAS WITH CAVER-NOSTOMY AND MUSCLE FLAP: INTEREST OF CONCOMITANT LIMITED THORACOPLAS-TY”. Grima R, Krassas A, Bagan P, Badia A, Le Pimpec Barthes F, Riquet M. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2009 Nov;36(5):910-3.
• “CURRENT INDICATIONS AND RESULTS FOR THORACOPLASTY AND INTRATHO-RACIC MUSCLE TRANSPOSITION”. Krassas A, Grima R, Bagan P, Badia A, Arame A, Barthes FL, Riquet M. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2010 Jan;37(5)1215-1220
• “PRIMITIVE NEUROECTODERMAL TUMOR OF THE THORACIC WALL IN A48-YEAR-OLD MAN” Krassas A., Mallios D., Kalkandi P., Boulia S., Reveliotis C., Sepsas E. Asian Annals 2010;18(3):285-7
• “LATENT CONGENITAL DEFECT; INTERRUPTED AORTIC ARCH IN AN ADULT. CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW” T. Sakellaridis, M. Argiriou, V. Panagiotakopoulos, A. Krassas, O. Argiriou, C. Charitos. Vasc and Endovascular Surg 2010;44(5):402-6.
• “A RARE CASE OF SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME DUE TO A GIANT AORTIC ANEURYSM”S. Boulia, E. Metaxas, M. Augoulea, V. Lazarou, Krassas A, E. Balis, G. Tatsis. Asian Cardi-ovac Thorac Ann, 2010;18(4):396-7
• “COMPRESSION OF THE TRACHES BY INTRATHORACIC VAGUS NERVE SCHWANNOMA” Mallios DI., Krassas A., Kakaris S., Sepsas E. Asian Cardiovac Thorac Ann, 2012;20(1):86
• “PYOPERICARDIUM FOLLOWED BY CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS DUE TO CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTERIAE” Krassas A., Sakellaridis T., Argyriou M., Charitos C., Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg, 2012;14(6):875-7