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• Serological tests

  Serological tests allow us to find out the immune response against an infectious agent. For this reason, they can be used for diagnostic purposes a...

  Assistance – Tests and procedures

• Antigen

  Antigen tests are immunoassays that are frequently used to rapidly diagnose infectious diseases. They detect the presence of proteins from a specif...

  Assistance – Tests and procedures

• Electrocardiogram

  An electrocardiogram, also known as an ECG or EKG, is a non-invasive scan that allows the heart’s electrical activity to be studied at a given time...

  Assistance – Tests and procedures

• Holter

  The Holter study is a non-invasive scan that allows the frequency and type of heart rhythm to be studied. Unlike the electrocardiogram, which allow...

  Assistance – Tests and procedures

• Heel prick test

  The objective of the heel prick test is to detect certain serious diseases at birth. Most of these conditions are rare, and genetic in origin. It m...

  Assistance – Tests and procedures

• Kidney Transplant

  Kidney transplantation is a surgical treatment in which a healthy kidney obtained from a living or cadaver donor is grafted into a patient with end...

  • Obtaining a kidney
  • Phases of Kidney Transplantation
  • Living with the disease
  • Evolution of the disease
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Tests and procedures

• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

  Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most prevalent hormonal disorder in women of reproductive age (between 6-20% depending on the criteria cons...

  • Causes
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Disease Progression
  • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome at Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Thyroid diseases

  The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located at the base of the neck, just below the Adam's apple. It produces the thyroid hormone that is respo...

  • Causes
  • Diagnosis
  • Research
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Research at Hospital Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Goitre

  The term "goitre" refers to abnormal enlargement of the thyroid gland, due to something causing the thyroid to grow larger than normal. It is impor...

  • Causes
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Living with the disease
  • Research
  • Treating the disease at Hospital Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Thyroid Nodule

  A thyroid nodule is a number of thyroid cells that are grouped together in a cluster, a lump, forming a tumour that may be either malignant or beni...

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

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Graves’ Disease

  Graves-Basedow Disease (GBD) is the most common form of autoimmune hyperthyroidism, in which the thyroid is activated by antibodies that stimulate...

  • Causes
  • Symptoms and signs
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Living with the disease
  • Research
  • Treatment at Hospital Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Thyroiditis

  Thyroiditis is an inflammation of the thyroid gland caused by an autoimmune disorder or a viral infection. In its first phase, this inflammation le...

  • Causes
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Disease progression
  • Research
  • Treating the disease at Hospital Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Hyperthyroidism

  Hyperthyroidism is a condition that occurs when the thyroid gland is overactive, in other words, it secretes too much thyroid hormone.

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

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Hypothyroidism

  Hypothyroidism is a disease caused by a decrease in the normal function (hypofunction) of the thyroid gland. This means that the thyroid gland is n...

  • Causes
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Disease progression
  • Research
  • The disease at the Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Radiotherapy

  Radiotherapy is a medical oncology treatment that uses high-energy ionizing radiation to eliminate tumor cells or slow their growth. It is a key t...

  • The procedure at the Clínic
  • Research at the Clínic
  • Teaching and training at the Clínic

  Assistance – Tests and procedures

• Sexual Violence

  Sexual violence is  any behaviour considered of a sexual nature that is carried out without the other person’s consent. It includes conduct such as...

  • What type of sexual violence does it exist?
  • How can you identify whether you have been exposed to VAW?
  • What can you do if you suffer sexual violence?
  • How sexual violence affects your health?
  • What can you do to recover from a sexual assault?
  • What can family and friends do?
  • Sexual Violence at Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

  Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a disease that encompasses a wide range of physical, mental, behavioural and cognitive abnormalities tha...

  • Causes and risk factors
  • Signs and symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Disease progression
  • Living with the disease
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Treatment at Hospital Clínic
  • Research at Hospital Clínic
  • Teaching and training at Hospital Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Premature Bronchiolitis

  Bronchiolitis is a respiratory infection that affects suckling infants. It mainly occurs in the small airways, particularly in the bronchioles. It...

  • How many people does it affect?
  • Mechanism of contagion
  • Causes
  • Risk factors
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Treatment
  • Living with the disease
  • Frequently asked questions
  • The disease at Hospital Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Aortic stenosis

  Aortic stenosis is a disease that occurs due to narrowing of the aortic valve, one of the four valves that control blood flow in the heart, which m...

  • How many people does it affect?
  • Causes and risk factors
  • Symptoms
  • Testing and diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Living with the disease
  • Disease progression
  • Research
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions

• Frontotemporal Dementia

  Frontotemporal dementia is a group of neurodegenerative diseases that cause a progressive loss of neurons in the nervous system. In frontotemporal...

  • Living with the disease
  • Causes and risk factors
  • Symptoms
  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Progression of the disease
  • Research
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Treatment at the Clínic
  • Research at the Clínic
  • Teaching and training at the Clínic
  • Team and structure

  Assistance – Diseases, symptoms and health conditions