Liapis, Konstantinos http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1165-9639
Papadopoulos, Vasileios http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4188-9518
Pontikoglou, Charalambos
Vrachiolias, George
Stavroulaki, Emily
Kourakli, Alexandra
Lazaris, Vasileios
Galanopoulos, Athanasios G.
Papoutselis, Menelaos
Papageorgiou, Sotirios G.
Diamantopoulos, Panagiotis T. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2692-5944
Pappa, Vassiliki
Viniou, Nora-Athina
Τsokanas, Dimitris
Vassilakopoulos, Theodoros P.
Hatzimichael, Eleftheria http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4408-5646
Bouronikou, Eleni
Ximeri, Maria
Megalakaki, Aekaterini
Zikos, Panagiotis
Panayiotidis, Panayiotis
Dimou, Maria
Karakatsanis, Stamatis http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1793-6617
Papaioannou, Maria
Papadakis, Stavros http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2635-7441
Vardi, Anna
Kontopidou, Flora
Harchalakis, Nikolaos
Adamopoulos, Ioannis
Symeonidis, Argiris http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3685-3473
Papadaki, Helen A.
Kotsianidis, Ioannis
Article History
Received: 4 September 2022
Revised: 9 January 2023
Accepted: 11 January 2023
First Online: 16 January 2023
Competing interests
: IK, NAV, AS, and V. Pappa have received research funding from Celgene Corporation for work outside this study. IK, SGP, TPV, AGG, EH, PP, AK, AS, V. Pappa and NAV have received honoraria from Genesis Pharma Hellas S.A. for work outside this study. All other authors: no conflicts of interest.
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hellenic Society of Hematology (Protocol: No.8/26-3-2008). This study was done in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional Research Committees of the participating centers, and in compliance with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: The basis for this study formed the database of the Hellenic National Registry of Myelodysplastic and Hypoplastic Syndromes (<i>N</i> = 2972 patients) and the database of the ITP Registry of the Hellenic Society of Hematology (<i>N</i> = 1317 patients). All data were collected during routine patient care. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hellenic Society of Hematology (Protocol: No.8/26-3-2008).