What are you looking for? Search Common searches: Departments, Hospitalisation, Professionals, Outpatient clinics, Health advice, Accreditations, Diseases, Diagnostic tests, Treatments, The birth of a child, Emergency, Visiting patients, Fulltext search Tipus de contingut Services and units Professionals Pathologies Health advices Health and wellness Diagnostic tests Treatments News Activities Centers - Any - Search Pathologies Juvenile onset systemic autoimmune diseases Paediatric age onset systemic autoimmune diseases are infrequent, complex entities that require a multi-disciplinary approach. The most frequent include juvenile onset systemic lupus erythematosus, mixed connective tis Specialities Musculoskeletal Techniques and Ultrasound Unit The Musculoskeletal Techniques and Ultrasound Unit (MTU) at Vall d'Hebron Hospital Rheumatology Department is devoted to locomotive system ultrasound in all its forms (diagnostic/therapeutic) and other procedures and interventions and serves adult and paediatric patients. Pathologies Rheumatic polymyalgia Rheumatic polymyalgia is an inflammatory rheumatic disease, of unknown origin, that mainly affects people over 50 and causes pain and rigidity in the shoulder and hip areas (shoulder and pelvic girdles). Between 15% an Pathologies Sjögren's Syndrome Sjögren's Syndrome is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease, the cause of which is unknown. Its main symptoms are a dry mouth (xerostomia) and dry eyes (xerophthalmia). In this disease, the cells making up our defence system (immune system) attack parts of the body itself, such as the glands tha News Dr Xavier Montalban receives the John Dystel Award for Multiple Sclerosis Research The award is a recognition of his contribution to research on the understanding, treatment and prevention of multiple sclerosis. News Dr Amanda Rodríguez presents her book 'Siente lo que comes', in which she analyses the impact of the microbiota on mental health La Dra. Amanda Rodríguez, psiquiatra del Servei de Salut Mental de Vall d’Hebron, explica que una microbiota variada és fonamental en la salut mental de les persones. Pathologies Auto-immune diseases The failure of our immune system to recognise structures, cells or proteins in the body is responsible for the development of systemic autoimmune diseases. We call them ‘autoimmune’ because our immune response mistakenly targets our own body; and ‘systemic’ because they affect different organs an Screens schedule News Vall d’Hebron, the University of Zaragoza, Merck Salud and the Spanish Society of Pathological Anatomy create the Santiago Ramón y Cajal Chair The chair promotes innovative research in the field of biomedical sciences. Professionals M. Elena Élez Fernández Elena Élez is an attending phisicyan of the Gastrointestinal Tumors Service of the Medical Oncology Service of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. She is currently also Principal Investigator of the Gastrointestinal Tumor Group and Endocrine of VHIO, headed by Josep Tabernero, director of VHIO. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 150 Next page ››