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Perinatal mortality is a death that occurs from the 22nd week of gestation to 28 days after birth. Its prevalence is estimated at 1 in every 200 pr...
Being overweight or obese means having an abnormal or excessive accumulation of body fat that increases the risk of complications for both mother a...
Parkinson's disease is an incurable, progressive, neurodegenerative disorder with a gradual onset and chronic nature. It is characterised primarily...
Neonatal cerebral arterial infarction (NCI) is a cerebral damage caused by a focal interruption of cerebral blood flow secondary to an obstruction...
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is the most common leukaemia in the western world, with an incidence of around 5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants...
The most common type of pancreatic cancer is adenocarcinoma. It is the ninth most common tumour in Spain. However, due to its high fatality rates,...
Pneumothorax is the presence of air in the pleural cavity, which disturbs the intrapleural negative pressure balance and causes the lung to collaps...
Heart Transplantation is considered the definitive treatment of advanced heart failure and is performed when the patient does not respond to treatm...
Congenital heart disease are abnormalities of the heart and great vessels that originate before birth. Most of these processes are due to a differe...
Hereditary or familial heart diseases are all heart and aortic diseases that may affect more than one member of the same family. They mainly includ...
The blood that circulates through the umbilical cord has different and unique properties. It has a high content of stem cells that are capable of g...
Foetal movement is one of the first signs of life in the baby. It is not usually felt by the mother before 18 weeks under normal circumstances. Eve...
A caesarean section is a surgical technique performed to remove the baby and placenta from the mother's uterus when vaginal delivery is not possibl...
Labour induction/cervical ripening is a set of actions aimed at bringing forward the birth of the baby in a vaginal delivery, either for medical or...
Low birth weight (LBW) describes an infant weighing less than 2,500 g at full-term, or less than the 10th percentile on neonatal growth charts for...
Uterine myoma or uterine fibroids are fibroids that arise in the muscular tissue of the uterus and are the most common benign tumor in women of rep...
Pre-eclampsia is a condition that some women suffer during the second half of pregnancy. It affects 2-8% of all pregnancies and women who have it h...
Echocardiogram is a test that uses ultrasound techniques to produce, in real time, images of the heart. The most common is called transthoracic ech...
Anaesthesia is the use of drugs to prevent pain or discomfort during surgery or other procedures. There are two main types of anaesthesia that can...
Allergy is a disorder of the immune system in which the defenses respond inappropriately and they identify external substances as harmful that, due...