We are the combination of four hospitals: the General Hospital, the Children’s Hospital, the Women’s Hospital and the Traumatology, Rehabilitation and Burns Hospital. We are part of the Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus: a world-leading health park where healthcare plays a crucial role.
Below we will list the departments and units that form part of Vall d’Hebron Hospital and the main diseases that we treat. We will also make recommendations based on advice backed up by scientific evidence that has been shown to be effective in guaranteeing well-being and quality of life.
We will guide you from your first visit to the centre, allowing you to find all the departments and make the most of our facilities. Whatever the reason for your visit, we will explain how to get about the hospital.
Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) means that there is no connection from the pulmonary veins to the left atrium. Instead, they are redirected to the right atrium through an unusual connection. This defect affects new-borns and may need urgent surgery depending on its severity. Other, less severe cases may be detected when the baby is a few weeks or months old. In these cases, surgery is also necessary.
In a heart that functions normally, veins take oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left side, and from here to all parts of the body.
In people with TAPVC, oxygenated blood reaches the right side, where it mixes with deoxygenated blood and passes through a hole in the interatrial wall to the left atrium. This means that oxygen levels are lower in these children.
This anomaly works in different ways depending on the level of severity:
An echocardiogram can detect if a child has TAPVC. This is carried out within a few hours of birth for babies with TAPVC with obstruction. In other children, it is customary to carry out the test after listening to the heart and detecting a murmur and observing low blood oxygen levels.
In addition, an additional imaging test is usually done, such as computed tomography (CT scan) or an MRI to study the anomaly or defect.
Patients with TAPVC have to undergo surgery. In this procedure, the pulmonary vein flow is redirected to the left atrium and the anomalous communication with the right atrium corrected.
New-borns with TAPVC with obstruction are in a life-threatening situation. It is therefore necessary to perform surgery as soon as they are born to correct the anomaly.
For patients with TAPVC without obstruction, elective surgery can be performed once diagnosis is made.
Children who have had surgery for TAPVC can live a normal life and do not require further procedures. However, cardiological monitoring is necessary.
Anaesthesia, Resuscitation and Pain Management
General and Digestive Surgery
Gynaecological Oncology and Pathology of the Lower Genital Tract
Gynaecological Endoscopic Surgery
Urology
Breast Pathology
Nephrology
Ophthalmology
Echocardiogram and cardiac imaging unit
Uveitis and Eye Inflammation
Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology
Angiology, Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Surgery
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery and Transplants
Haematology and Haemotherapy
Oesophagogastric Surgery
Obstetric and Gynaecological Emergency Care
Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose and Throat)
Paediatric Nephrology
Paediatric Ophthalmology
Coronary care unit
Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery
Prematurity Prevention Unit
Arrhythmia Unit
Paediatric Maxillofacial Surgery
Abdominal wall surgery
Endocrinology and Nutrition
Sleep Unit
Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit
Neurosurgery
Paediatric Oncology and Haematology
Paediatric Hospitalisation and Hospital Paediatrics Unit
Paediatric Oncological Surgery Unit
Foetal Medicine and Surgery Unit
Paediatric Cardiology
Neonatal and Foetal Surgery
Paediatric Cardiac Surgery
Paediatric Endocrinology
Nutritional Support
Radiation Oncology
Clinical Neurophysiology
Paediatrics
Paediatric emergency care
Hereditary Angioedema Unit
Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine
Paediatric Intensive Care
Plastic Surgery and Burns
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Gynaecology
Dialysis
Pneumology
Medical Oncology
General Emergencies
Aortic pathology and Marfan syndrome
Obstetrics Ultrasound Unit
Cardiovascular Critical Care Unit
Strokes and Cerebral Haemodynamics
Cardiac Surgery
Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplants
Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
Diagnostic and Interventional Haemodynamics
Heart failure
Foetal Medicine
Congenital Heart Disease in Adolescents and Adults
Intensive care medicine
Paediatric Surgery
Prenatal Diagnosis Unit
Social Obstetrics Unit
Allergology
Cardiology
Pharmacy
Paediatric Digestive Surgery and Transplants
Hepatology
Psychiatry
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Neurology
Digestive System
Corneal and Ocular Surface Section
Diabetes and Pregnancy Unit
Perinatal Mental Health Unit
Neonatology
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Nutritional Support and Paediatric Hepatic Transplants
Endocrine, Metabolic, and Bariatric Surgery
Paediatric Urology
Infectious Diseases
Internal Medicine
Paediatric Neurology
Pneumology, allergology and cystic fibrosis
Glaucoma
Gynaecological Endocrinology
Inherited Heart Disease
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