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• Liver Metastases

  Liver metastases, also known as secondary liver cancer, are malignant tumours in the liver that originate from another part of the body. They can a...

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• Umbilical Hernia

  An umbilical hernia is a type of hernia that occurs when part of the intestine protrudes through the opening in the abdominal muscles through which...

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• Perinatal Mortality

  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...

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• Obesity and Pregnancy

  Being overweight or obese means having an abnormal or excessive accumulation of body fat that increases the risk of complications for both mother a...

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• Parkinson

  Parkinson's disease is an incurable, progressive, neurodegenerative disorder with a gradual onset and chronic nature. It is characterised primarily...

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• Neonatal Cerebral Arterial Infarction

  Neonatal cerebral arterial infarction (NCI) is a cerebral damage caused by a focal interruption of cerebral blood flow secondary to an obstruction...

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• Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia

  Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) is the most common leukaemia in the western world, with an incidence of around 5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants...

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• Pancreatic Cancer

  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,...

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• Pneumothorax

  Pneumothorax is the presence of air in the pleural cavity, which disturbs the intrapleural negative pressure balance and causes the lung to collaps...

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• Heart Transplantation

  Heart Transplantation is considered the definitive treatment of advanced heart failure and is performed when the patient does not respond to treatm...

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• Congenital Heart Disease in Adults

  Congenital heart disease are abnormalities of the heart and great vessels that originate before birth. Most of these processes are due to a differe...

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• Hereditary Heart Disease

  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...

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• Umbilical Cord Blood Donation

  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...

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• Reduction in Foetal Movement

  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...

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• Caesarean Section

  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...

  • Caesarean Section
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• Labour Induction

  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...

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• Low Birth Weight

  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...

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• Uterine Myoma

  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...

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• Pre-eclampsia

  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...

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• Residents

  The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona is a centre accredited as being of the highest level of complexity. Therefore, it offers the ideal conditions for...

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