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  1. How to identify high-risk patients for fatal outcome due to local peritonitis?—A retrospective analysis

    Article • Journal of Emergency Medicine Trauma and Acute Care, May 2025, QScience

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  2. THE IMPACT OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY IMMUNE RESPONSE ON FATAL OUTCOME IN THE EARLY STAGE OF A COMPLICATED INTRA-ABDOMINAL INFECTION

    Article • Acta Medica Saliniana, March 2025, Acta Medica Saliniana

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  3. Utility of the Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio for Predicting Mortality in Pleural Empyema - A Retrospective Study

    Article • Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews, February 2025, Bentham Science Publishers

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  4. Prediction of Poor Outcome Using the Urea to Albumin Ratio in Thoracic Empyema

    Article • Acta medica Lituanica, May 2024, Vilnius University Press

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  5. Serum lactate dehydrogenase improves significantly quick-Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score as a predictor of mortality in patients with thoracic empyema: A retrospective analysis

    Article • Pneumon, May 2024, E.U. European Publishing

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  6. Urea to Albumin Ratio Is an Excellent Predictor of Death in Patients With Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections

    Article • Surgical Infections, April 2024, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  7. Evaluation of systemic immune inflammation index as a predictor of lethal outcome in patients with thoracic empyema

    Article • Journal of Emergency Medicine Trauma and Acute Care, March 2024, QScience

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  8. Better chance of survival is associated with higher neutrophil CD16 expression in patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections

    Article • European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology, February 2024, Akademiai Kiado

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  9. Prediction of outcome using CD14++CD16−, CD14++CD16+ and CD14+CD16++ monocyte subpopulations in patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections

    Article • Medical Microbiology and Immunology, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  10. Prognostic performance of neutrophil CD64 expression in patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections – a prospective study

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  11. Can we predict death using scoring systems in patients with local peritonitis ? A retrospective study

    Article • Folia Medica, February 2023, Pensoft Publishers

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  12. Time for a paradigm shift in shared decision-making in trauma and emergency surgery? Results from an international survey

    Article • World Journal of Emergency Surgery, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alfie J Kavalakat, Evgeni Dimitrov, Dr marco cascella

  13. Acute diverticulitis in immunocompromised patients: evidence from an international multicenter observational registry (Web-based International Register of Emergency Surgery and Trauma, Wires-T)

    Article • Techniques in Coloproctology, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gianluca Costa, Evgeni Dimitrov

  14. Pediatric trauma and emergency surgery: an international cross-sectional survey among WSES members

    Article • World Journal of Emergency Surgery, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  15. Surgeons’ perspectives on artificial intelligence to support clinical decision-making in trauma and emergency contexts: results from an international survey

    Article • World Journal of Emergency Surgery, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alfie J Kavalakat, Evgeni Dimitrov, Dr marco cascella

  16. The World Society of Emergency Surgery Sepsis Severity Score shows no prognostic superiority over the Mannheim Peritonitis Index in patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections

    Article • Journal of Emergency Medicine Trauma and Acute Care, November 2022, QScience

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  17. Two years later: Is the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic still having an impact on emergency surgery? An international cross-sectional survey among WSES members

    Article • World Journal of Emergency Surgery, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Giovanni Domenico Tebala, Dr Edward Tan, Alfie J Kavalakat, Evgeni Dimitrov

  18. It is time to define an organizational model for the prevention and management of infections along the surgical pathway: a worldwide cross-sectional survey

    Article • World Journal of Emergency Surgery, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Majdi Al-Hasan, Professor Dr. Ashrarur Rahman Mitul, Alfie J Kavalakat, Professor Stefano Di Bella, Evgeni Dimitrov, Dr Timothy Craig Hardcastle

  19. A pandemic recap: lessons we have learned

    Article • World Journal of Emergency Surgery, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Majdi Al-Hasan, Evgeni Dimitrov, MD Massimo Girardis, Dr Timothy Craig Hardcastle

  20. Prognostic value of peripheral blood CD14+HLA-DR+ monocytes in patients with acute pancreatitis

    Article • Journal of Immunoassay and Immunochemistry, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  21. PROGNOSTIC PERFORMANCE OF WORLD SOCIETY OF EMERGENCY SURGERY SEPSIS SEVERITY SCORE IN BULGARIAN PATIENTS WITH COMPLICATED INTRA-ABDOMINAL INFECTIONS

    Article • Trakia Journal of Sciences, January 2021, Trakia University

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  22. The Potential Prognostic Performance of Neutrophil CD64 and Monocyte HLA-DR in Patients with Complicated Intra-abdominal Infections

    Article • Current Immunology Reviews, December 2020, Bentham Science Publishers

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  23. The Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) Score is a Poor Mortality Predictor in Patients with Complicated Intra-abdominal Infections

    Article • Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, May 2020, Macedonian Journal of Medical Science

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  24. The Role of the Molecular Subtypes in the Prognosis of Breast Cancer Patients

    Article • Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, March 2020, Macedonian Journal of Medical Science

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  25. Poor Outcome Could Be Predicted by Lower Monocyte Human Leukocyte Antigen-DR Expression in Patients with Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections: A Review

    Article • Surgical Infections, March 2020, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  26. Could Soluble Cluster of Differentiation 163 Be Useful as Prognostic Biomarker in Patients With Complicated Intra-abdominal Infections?

    Article • Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, February 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  27. A case of hypertriglyceridemia-inducedsevere acute pancreatitis - what else can be done?

    Article • Trakia Journal of Sciences, January 2020, Trakia University

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  28. CURRENT APPROACHES IN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH PERITONITIS

    Article • Trakia Journal of Sciences, January 2020, Trakia University

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  29. DIFFICULTIES IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND SURGICAL TREATMENT OF XANTOGRANULOMATOUS PYELONEPHRITIS

    Article • Trakia Journal of Sciences, January 2020, Trakia University

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  30. THE HIGH ELEVATION OF C-REACTIVE PROTEIN LEVELS AT ADMISSION REPRESENTS AN EARLY MORTALITY PREDICTOR IN PATIENTS WITH COMPLICATED INTRA-ABDOMINAL INFECTIONS

    Article • Trakia Journal of Sciences, January 2020, Trakia University

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  31. A combination of C-reactive protein and quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) score has better prognostic accuracy than qSOFA alone in patients with complicated intra-abdominal infections

    Article • Acta Chirurgica Belgica, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  32. Abstracts

    Article • European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christos Farazi Chongouki, Evgeni Dimitrov

  33. The role of PD-1 and PD-L1 expression for prognosis in colorectal cancer patients

    Article • European Journal of Surgical Oncology, February 2019, Elsevier

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  34. ESSR Abstracts

    Article • European Surgical Research, January 2019, Karger Publishers

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  35. Is it time for routinely tracking of early immunosuppression in tracking and prognosing patients with acute pancreatitis?

    Article • Pancreatology, June 2018, Elsevier

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  36. Overall survival according molecular subtypes in patients with breast cancer

    Article • European Journal of Cancer, April 2018, Elsevier

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  37. Neutrophil CD64 as a biomarker in complicated intra-abdominal infections

    Article • Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica, February 2018, Akademiai Kiado

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  38. Prognostic serum biomarkers for colorectal cancer – Review

    Article • Journal of Cancer Research & Therapy, January 2018, Noble Research Publishers

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  39. 304. Prognostic significance of serum levels of VEGF on survival in patients with colorectal cancer – Localization does it matter?

    Article • European Journal of Surgical Oncology, September 2016, Elsevier

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  40. 305. Comparative analysis of the prognostic role of preoperative levels of VEGF with standardly used tumor markers in patients with colorectal cancer

    Article • European Journal of Surgical Oncology, September 2016, Elsevier

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  41. 318. Hematologic toxicity associated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for patients with rectal cancer – Review

    Article • European Journal of Surgical Oncology, September 2016, Elsevier

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  42. Early immunosuppression – Timely protective response or earlier prognosis of high morbidity and mortality in patients with acute pancreatitis

    Article • Pancreatology, June 2016, Elsevier

    Evgeni Dimitrov

  43. New post-operative clinical index influencing the decision for relaparotomy in patients with intra-abdominal infection

    Article • Trakia Journal of Sciences, January 2014, Trakia University

    Evgeni Dimitrov