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A liver transplant, or hepatic transplant, involves replacing a diseased liver with a healthy portion or entire liver taken from a living or deceas...
Sexually transmitted infections are infections acquired while practicing unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person. Some examples are...
Colon and rectal cancer is a type of tumour that appears in the large intestine. It is the third most frequent cancer in both sexes: after lung and...
Prematurity is when a child is born before the 37th week of gestation. Every year 15 million babies are born prematurely in the world. Of these, ma...
Endometriosis is one of the most common benign gynecological diseases and affects 10% of women of childbearing age. The tissue that forms the linin...
Asthma is a chronic inflammation that affects the airways, which decreases the flow of air that enters and leaves the lungs. Symptoms appear differ...
Bipolar disorder is a chronic mental illness that affects the mechanisms that regulate mood. One of the main problems is that it takes between 5 an...
Depressive disorder is a disease which main sympthoms are sadness, the loss of interest, or lack of concentration. It affects more than 300 million...
Alzheimer’s a progressive neurodegenerative disease that it's caused by the progressive loss of neurons, which reduces their functionality. Patient...
A cataract appears when the eye's lens, due to ageing, becomes cloudy, losing its transparency. This prevents focusing on objects, rendering blurry...
Headaches or cephalalgia is one of the most common disorders of the nervous system. Approximately half of all adults have had a headache during t...
Deafness, hearing loss or hypoacusis is a functional deficit that occurs when a person loses hearing capacity to a lesser or greater degree. It can...
Epilepsy is a group of nervous system diseases caused by alterations in brain electric activity that lead to sudden symptoms, most of times with lo...
A colonoscopy is a safe and effective test to examine the inside of the large intestine, including the rectum. It is used to evaluate symptoms such...
Varicose veins are swollen or enlarged veins, becoming, therefore, visible in the form of a bluish or brownish path, and even, palpable. It can aff...
Diabetic retinopathy is an eye condition caused by diabetes. The blood vessels in the retina deteriorate and bleed or cause fluid to accumulate, wh...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a treatment for some types of serious brain disorders or mental illness. It consists on the aplication of small...