Surgeons remove over 90% of 2-year-old's brain tumor
Oliver flew from Mexico to Barcelona in medicalized plane thanks to anonymous €200,000 donation
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2-year-old with brain tumor to undergo surgery in Barcelona on Friday after traveling from Mexico
Oliver flew in medicalized plane thanks to anonymous €200,000 donation
Historic children's kidney transplant performed in Barcelona
Crossover transplant involving team from Sant Joan de Déu and Clínic Hospitals is first of its kind in Spain
Most children have little or no Covid-19 symptoms, Barcelona hospital study suggests
Sant Joan de Déu to look into disease transmission at kids' summer camps
Toy Story 4 to premiere simultaneously in theaters and Sant Joan de Déu hospital
For the first time, sick children will also be able to enjoy the release of a big summer blockbuster when the Disney Pixar movie opens on June 21
Barcelona will host Europe’s largest hospital specialising in infantile cancer
Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, the Leo Messi Foundation, the FC Barcelona Foundation and the IESE business school have joined forces to launch a campaign to get companies and the general public to help finance the new SJD Pediatric Cancer Center that is being planned for the city of Barcelona. The hospital, which is set to be Europe’s largest dedicated to infantile cancer and the third-biggest worldwide, will cost 30 MEUR. Once functioning, the centre could care for around 400 patients within its 5,137m2 installation, which will be located next to Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. If the deadlines are met, the construction of the new centre will start in the second half of 2017 and be ready by 2019. The facility will allow the increase of the recovery rate for infantile cancer, which is currently around 80%, help develop new drugs and reduce the side effects of treatments used.
Surgeons in Barcelona extirpate a tumour in a 5 year old child using 3D model
A team of surgeons at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in the Catalan capital successfully removed a tumour from a five year old child by first preparing and practicing the “highly complex” procedure on a 3D printed tumour. The child had neuroblastoma, a difficult cancer to extirpate because of the surrounding blood vessels and arteries. In such cases, testing the procedure in advance "is key" because it allows surgeons to study the most effective way of extracting the tumour without damaging other tissues, and to test the method before surgery. This has been possible thanks to the use of a 3D replica of the tumour.
Catalan doctors help a patient become the first woman in the world with no ovaries to get pregnant
Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Greater Barcelona has become the first facility in the world to assist a woman who lost her two ovaries to get pregnant. A decade ago she had to have her ovaries completely removed because of two tumours. Ovarian tissue was frozen, kept for ten years and now re-implanted. The patient has had her period again and, thanks to in vitro fertilisation, is now pregnant.