Anna Creus Costa

Anna Creus Costa

Paediatrics, Children's Hospital and Woman's Hospital

Rare diseases

Minority diseases, also called rare diseases, are those that affect between 5% and 7% of the population. They are very varied, affecting different parts of the body with a wide range of symptoms that change both between diseases and within the same disease. It is estimated that some 30 million people in the EU, 3 million in Spain, and around 350,000 in Catalonia suffer from one.

Malalties minoritàries
Authorship: Vall d'Hebron
Creation date: 17.12.2021, 10:03
Modification date: 18.01.2024, 13:27
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Laia Martínez Mitjana

Laia Martínez Mitjana

Paediatrics, Children's Hospital and Woman's Hospital

Infection caused by Escherichia coli

The Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria is one of the most common causes of human illness. It forms part of the digestive flora and is always present in faecal matter.

By little known mechanisms it episodically causes disease in humans, either due to mutations that make it resistant to our body’s control mechanisms, or because it is present in places it should not normally be, such as the urinary tract or in the blood itself.

Escherichia Coli Vall d'Hebron
Authorship: Vall d'Hebron
Creation date: 09.11.2022, 11:02
Modification date: 09.11.2022, 11:37
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Neurología Pediátrica Campus Vall D'hebron. Semiología y Cribado: Retos del diagnóstico precoz

Campus Universitario Vall d’Hebrón Barcelona
10/27/2022 - 08:30
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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 tissue disease, juvenile onset Sjögren’s syndrome, juvenile dermatomyositis, juvenile scleroderma, and paediatric age onset vasculitis, such as Kawasaki disease, IgA vasculitis (also known as Schönlein-Henoch purpura), polyarthritis nodosa and Takayasu disease.

Authorship: Mireia Lopez Corbeto
Creation date: 04.04.2022, 13:19
Modification date: 30.11.2022, 16:40
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Quique Pérez

Quique Pérez

Paediatrics, Children's Hospital and Woman's Hospital

Acte de reconeixement a l’Hospital Vall d’Hebron i els seus Serveis - Monitor de Reputación Sanitaria 2018

03/19/2019 - 13:30
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Paludisme

Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Plasmodium.

It is transmitted through the bite of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. The mosquito acts as a vector or transmitter of the disease. The mosquito bites an already infected person. The parasite reproduces and develops inside the mosquito. The mosquito subsequently bites another person who in turn becomes infected.

paludismo Vall d'Hebron
Authorship: Vall d'Hebron
Creation date: 17.12.2021, 10:03
Modification date: 01.02.2022, 13:07
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