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 Adult congenital heart disease Adult congenital heart diseases are pathologies that are caused by heart defects, and they are usually diagnosed during childhood. These patients are closely monitored by the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Unit (UCCA) starting from the time of their diagnosis. Pathologies Aortic pathologies Aortic pathologies include all of the diseases that affect the aortic artery. The aortic artery is the largest and most important artery in the body, emerging from the heart and carrying blood to the rest of the body. This artery can be divided into four parts: aortic root, ascending aorta, aorti Pathologies Adult Sarcomas Sarcomas are an uncommon type of cancer that account for only 1-2% of all tumours in adults. They also represent a complex entity, given that there are more than 70 types, with differences in terms of their diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Accordingly, sarcoma patients need to be assessed by m Pathologies Hereditary angioedema Hereditary angioedema is a rare genetic disease that affects approximately one in 50,000 people. It is usually an inherited disorder and is characterised by the accumulation of fluids outside the blood vessels, causing swelling of the face, hands, feet, extremities, genitals, gas Pathologies Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (AIJ) Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a chronic disease characterised by persistent inflammation of the joints that begins before the age of 16. Pathologies Autoinflammatory syndromes (AIS) Autoinflammatory syndromes are a group of conditions characterised by spontaneous, recurring or persistent episodes of multi-systemic inflammation. They are caused by changes to innate immunity that cause deregulation Pathologies Chronic granulomatous disease This is a type of primary immunodeficiency disorder (PID) - genetically-based minority immune system disorders - which affects the granulocytes, the cells that are essential to eliminate microbes. Pathologies Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID) This is the most serious group of primary immunodeficiency disorders (PID) - genetically-based minority immune system disorders - affecting the T lymphocytes, cells that are essential to eliminate microbes. The global incidence is around 1/50,000 newborns, with regional difference Pathologies Prostate cancer Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed tumour in adult men in developed countries where there is a long life expectancy. It is an atypical and uncontrolled growth of the cells that make up the prostate gland. If left untreated, the cancerous prostate cells can end up sprea Pathologies Testicular cancer Testicular cancer is the most commonly-found tumour in men aged between 15 and 35. More than 90% of testicular cancers develop in the germ cells, which are responsible for producing sperm. Pagination Previous page ‹‹ Page 82 Next page ››