Visit to the market with patients with kidney disease
The Hospital Clínic’s Nephrology and Renal Transplant Service recently organized a visit to the Ninot Market in Barcelona for patients with chronic...
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The Hospital Clínic is the first hospital in Catalonia to perform 200 kidney transplants in one year
This record was achieved thanks to the multidisciplinary work carried out by the Nephrology and Urology services. Moreover, the Kidney Transplant S...
Why does your body itch if you have kidney failure?
It is normal for people with kidney failure to have an itchy body due to drier skin and excess phosphorus.
The Hospital Clínic, the top hospital in Spain for kidney and pancreas transplantation
The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona has consolidated its kidney and pancreas transplantation programme, and is the Spanish centre that performs the hi...
Agustí Rovira: "We don’t know whether this transplant has lengthened my life, but what I can say is that it has given me quality of life"
The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona has successfully performed the first kidney transplant in Spain on a 90-year-old patient. This milestone achieveme...
Laboratory-generated mini-kidneys help understand the link between diabetes and COVID-19 disease
Researchers from Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS have participated in an international collaboration led by IBEC in which they have generated human mini-ki...
9 transplants in 48 hours, a real record in times of pandemic
The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona recently performed 9 transplants in under 48 hours. This milestone had never been recorded before at the Hospital...
For the first time, the Hospital Clínic performs 1,000 apheresis procedures in one year
The Apheresis Unit, established in 1980, and which recently opened a new room, has achieved this milestone for the first time since its creation.
The Hospital Clínic applies patient experience as a strategic challenge in kidney-pancreas transplantation
The Hospital Clínic Nephrology and Urology Institute (ICNU) is working to introduce a new, patient-centred healthcare model: patient experience (XP...
Researchers at the Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS predict with an accuracy of 96% the evolution of kidney transplant patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19
Researchers from the Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS coordinated a study that made it possible to determine with an accuracy of 96% whether a kidney transp...