Entries by Pau Colomer

HEART RHEALTHAL MALALTH

Rheumatic valvular disease is a sequel to a pharyngitis caused by a microbe called Group A streptococcus that does not receive antibiotic treatment. Up to 20% of the pharyngitis are caused by streptococcus and a small part of them end up developing a rheumatic fever (high fever, joint pains, neurological manifestations …). After a rheumatic […]

WE NEED YOUR COLLABORATION TO OPERATE THE HEART DISEASE Tsering Bhuti

Tsering Bhuti is a 38-year-old Tibetan mother of a school-aged son who lives and works in the nursing home of the Gyuto monastery in Dharamsala, India. He has been diagnosed with chronic rheumatic heart disease and needs urgent surgery in the next few days. Bhuti’s resources are very limited; indeed, his son is sponsored to […]

ABOUT HEART, CHOLESTEROL AND SATURATED FATS

THE HEART Cardiovascular diseases are pathologies typical of Western societies and although some of their risk factors are easily preventable, the global reach of these diseases is very high: they are the leading cause of death in the world, overcoming any type of cancer and AIDS. Usually, they do not produce symptoms until it is […]

WORKSHOP “SMART CARDIAC SURGERY PROGRAM”

The Foundation CardioDreams and the Research and Innovation Department of the Quirónsalud Foundation organize the first “Smart Cardiac Surgery Program” Workshop on February 18 and 19, 2016, in the IOT Room of Teknon Medical Center. Ourcart explicamos todos los detalles.

Disclosure, a goal of CardioDreams Foundation.

For the CardioDreams Foundation, dissemination is very important and is a matter of informing the population about healthier habits. Dr Ruyra, Head of the Cardiac Surgery Service of the Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, explained in the 23rd edition of the TV3 Marató devoted to heart diseases, which make the […]