John Bellos VASCULAR SURGEON

• Role of oxidative stress in acute vascular type renal transplant rejection

• Hellenic Vascular Surgery Society
• Medical Association of Athens – Greece
• European Society of Vascular Surgery

• Resident in General Hospital of Karditsa, 1998
• Rural GP at the Rural Peripheral Infirmary of Kalis Komis Karditsa, 1998-1999
• Resident in General Surgery at the Department of Surgery in 421 General Military Hospital of Xanthi, 2000-2001
• Resident in General Surgery and Vascular Surgery at the Department of 2nd Propedeutic Surgery in “Laiko” Universal Hospital of Athens, 2001-2009
• Vascular Surgeon Fellow, Cardiovascular & Thoracic Department of Saint-Joseph Hospital, Marseille, France, 2009-2010
• Vascular surgeon at private practice from 2010
• Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece, 2010-today

Education Experience:

• Courses- lectures and clinical training in sixth and fourth year students of the University of Athens Medical School.

Clinical Interest:

• Conventional and Endovascular therapy of Abdominal-Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
• Hybrid therapy of Thoracoabdominal Aneurysms
• Conventional and Endovascular therapy of Peripheral Arterial Disease
• Conventional and Endovascular therapy of Carotid Artery Disease
• Conventional and Endovascular therapy of Renovascular Disease
• Conventional and Endovascular therapy of Splachnic Arterial Disease 
• Stripping and Laser or Radiofrequency Ablation of Great – Short Saphenous Vein
• Spider Veins Sclerotherapy
• Hemodialysis Access 
• Lymphedema Management

Research Interest:

• Growth factors and angiogenesis in Critical Limb Ischemia (Tamaris study)
• The role of Nitric Oxide (NO) in vascular type acute renal transplant rejection
• Research Fellow in Laboratory of Experimental Surgery and Surgery Research “N.S Christeas”, University of Athens, Medical School

• First grant for the best 2003 Ph.D candidate from “Empeirikion“ Foundation
• First prize for the best poster presentation in the XXII World Congress of the International Union of Angiology. Lisboa – Portugal (June 24-28, 2006)

• D Liapis, JK. Bellos, Lappas D: How vascular surgery reveals the carotid anatomy. In M. Amor, P. Bergeron, L. Inglese, T. Ischinger, K. Mathias, D. Raithel (editors) Carotid Bifurcation Artery Stenting, MEET 2006, Didactic Manual. pg 19-25.
• Klonaris C, Bellos JK, Papalampros E. Deep Vein Thrombosis in Thromboebolic Disease, 35th Hellenic Medicine Congress 2009, Didactic Manual, pg 62-75. 
• European Manual of Medicine. Vascular Surgery. C. D Liapis Chief Editor, K. Balzer, F. Benedetti-Valentini,J. Fernandes e Fernandes Editors, 2008

• Gompou A, Perrea D, Karatzas T, Bellos JK, Kastania AN, Boletis I, et al. Relationship of Changes in Cystatin-C With Serum Creatinine and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in Kidney Transplantation. Transplant Proc. 2015;47(6):1662-74.
• Bellos JK, Kogerakis N, Kiriazis C, Gougoulakis A, Panagiotou M. Carotid shunt pro-vides cerebral protection during emergency coronary artery bypass grafting in a pa-tient with bilateral high grade carotid stenosis: Case report. J Cardiothorac Surg 2011; 6:33.
• Bellos JK, Perrea DN, Theodoropoulou E, Vlachos I, Kostakis A. Nitric Oxide produc-tion as an indicator of recurrence of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis in kidney transplantation. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl. 2011;22(5):1030-2.
• Bellos JK, Perrea DN, Theodoropoulou E, Vlachos I, Papachristodoulou A, Kostakis A. Clinical correlation of Nitric Oxide levels with acute rejection in renal transplanta-tion. Int Urol Nephrol. 2011;43(3):883-90.
• Bellos JK, Petrosyan A, Abdulamit T, Trastour JC, Bergeron P. Retrograde type A aortic dissections after endovascular stent-graft placement for type B dissection. J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino) 2010; 51:85-93.
• Verikokos C, Moschou M, Karanikola E, Vgenopoulou S, Bellos J, Roukanas P, Avgerinos E. Acute limb ischemia in a patient with cardiac amyloidosis: a case report. Cases J. 2009; 2:8525.
• Klonaris C, Bellos JK, Katsargyris A, Avgerinos ED, Moschou M, Verikokos C. Endo-vascular repair of two tandem profunda femoris artery aneurysms. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009; 20:1253-4.
• Klonaris C, Verikokos C, Avgerinos ED, Bellos J, Katsargyris A, Liapis CD. Stent-graft repair of isolated iliac aneurysms with wide or ectatic necks with use of inverted zenith device legs. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2009; 20:403-6.
• Bellos JK, Moustardas M, Liapis CD. Regarding bare metal stent infections: case re-port and review of the literature. J Vasc Surg. 2008; 47:898;
• Liapis CD, Bellos JK, Bergqvist D, Van Bockel JH, Palombo D, Wolfe JH; European Section and Board of Vascular Surgery (EBVS) of Union Europeenne des Medecins Specialistes. European continuing medical education in vascular surgery: 5-year re-sults of congresses approved by the Union Europeenne des Medecins Specialistes Section of Vascular Surgery. Int Angiol. 2007; 26:361-6.