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• Coronary Revascularisation Surgery (Bypass)

  Coronary revascularisation surgery (or bypass) is a surgical procedure used to treat the obstruction of the blood vessels that supply blood to the...

  Assistance – Tests and procedures

• Cervical Cancer

  Cervical cancer (CC) is common among young women and is caused, in almost 100% of cases, by human papillomavirus (HPV). It can be prevented through...

  • Causes and Risk Factors
  • Signs and symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Evolution of the disease
  • Preventing
  • Living with the disease
  • Research
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Flu

  Influenza (the flu) is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by Influenza viruses that primarily infect the nose, throat, bronchi and, in...

  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Prevention
  • Disease progression
  • Living with the disease
  • Research
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Aortic Aneurysm

  Aortic aneurysm is dilatation or enlargement of the body’s main artery, the aorta. They can occur in any section of the aorta from its origin where...

  • Causes and risk factors
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Evolution of the disease
  • Living with the disease
  • Research
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Research at Hospital Clínic
  • Treatment at the Clínic
  • Teaching and training at the Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• COVID-19

  The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is a virus transmitted through respiratory droplets that causes the disease known as COVID-19. Currently, most people wh...

  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Prevention
  • Vaccines COVID-19
  • FAQs about COVID-19 vaccines
  • FAQs about systemic autoimmune diseases
  • FAQs for kidney trasplant recipients
  • Living with the disease
  • Long Covid
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Physical activity and Health

  Regular physical activity contributes to well-being, and helps prevent diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, overweight and obesity, coro...

  • Physical activity at different times in life
  • Physical activity and chronic diseases
  • Medical review

  Assistance – Be healthy

• Liver cancer

  Liver cancer is abnormal, uncontrollable growth of liver cells leading to the formation of a tumour. Chronic liver disease and liver cirrhosis incr...

  • Risk factors
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Evolution of the disease
  • Living with the disease
  • Research
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Atopic Dermatitis

  Atopic dermatitis is a chronic, inflammatory skin disease that manifests as eczema (red patches) and itchiness. It courses with recurring, highly v...

  • Causes and risk factors
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Evolution of the disease
  • Living with the disease
  • Research
  • Treatment at Hospital Clínic
  • Research at Hospital Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Contact Dermatitis

  Contact dermatitis is an inflammatory skin disease that occurs when the skin comes into contact with external substances capable of causing irritat...

  • Causes and risk factors
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Progression of the disease
  • Living with the disease
  • The disease at the Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Chronic Urticaria

  Chronic urticaria is an inflammatory skin disorder characterised by the recurrent appearance of wheals or hives on the skin’s surface that cause in...

  • Causes
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Evolution of the disease
  • Living with the disease
  • Research
  • The disease at the Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Pulmonary Fibrosis

  Pulmonary fibrosis is the process that takes place in a group of heterogeneous and chronic lung diseases. They are characterised by being rare, dif...

  • Causes and Risk Factors
  • Signs and symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Progression of the disease
  • Living with the disease
  • Research
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Research at the Clínic
  • Teaching and Training at the Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Ovarian Cancer

  Ovarian cancer is one of the most deadly tumours for women. Many cases are diagnosed in advanced stages of the disease. The treatment usually consi...

  • Causes and risk factors
  • Signs and symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Disease progression
  • Living with disease
  • Research
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Zika

  Zika is a febrile illness that is transmitted by mosquito bites. It is part of a large group of viruses known as Arbovirus, which includes dengue a...

  • Transmission
  • Prevention
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Living with the disease
  • Evolution of the disease
  • Research
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Leptospirosis

  Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection that is transmitted through contact with contaminated fresh water, especially white waters (the section of a...

  • Transmission
  • Prevention
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Progression of the disease
  • Living with the disease
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Malaria

  Malaria is a potentially fatal disease caused by a parasite of the genus Plasmodium. It is transmitted to humans through the bite of female mosquit...

  • Transmission
  • Prevention
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Progression of the disease
  • Living with the disease
  • The disease at the Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Chagas

  Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis is a disease caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi).

  • Transmission
  • Prevention
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Living with the disease
  • Evolution of the Disease
  • Research
  • Treatment at Hospital Clínic
  • Investigación en el Clínic
  • Training and Education
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Typhoid fever

  Typhoid or enteric fever is a bacterial infection caused by Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi (A, B and C).   

  • Transmission
  • Prevention
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Progression of the disease
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Rabies

  Rabies is a serious viral disease that causes inflammation of the nervous system, and is transmitted through the saliva of infected animals.

  • Prevention
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Progression of the disease
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  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Chikunguña

  Chikunguña is a febrile illness transmitted by mosquito bites. It was first identified in Tanzania, in 1952. The word “chikunguña” means “doubled o...

  • Transmission
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  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Evolution of the disease
  • Living with the disease
  • Research
  • Treatment at Clínic
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  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Yellow Fever

  Yellow fever is a haemorrhagic viral illness transmitted by bites from infected mosquitoes. “Yellow” refers to the skin colour presented by some pa...

  • Transmission
  • Prevention
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Living wih the disease
  • Evolution of the disease
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions