Researchers at SJD Hospital reproduce various stages of childhood cancer in mice to explain its resistance to medication This is the first time in the world that pairs of "avatar tumours" have been achieved in the early and advanced stages of tumour from the same chi...
An artificial placenta to increase the survival of extremely premature babies The device can keep the newborn in an environment similar to that of the maternal uterus, connected to an artificial umbilical cord, and reduce n...
Success in the first laser thermal ablation performed in Spain on a child with a brain tumour This is a very new surgical technique that is being performed in very few European centres due to its complexity
A team of neurosurgeons performs awake surgery on a 15 year old to excise the focus of her epilepsy It is the first time SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital has performed this complex operation on a conscious patient
Susana Rives among the 100 best medical professionals in Spain according to Forbes magazine She is the head of the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Unit of the Haematology and Oncology Department and a reference in CAR-T 19 immunotherapy.
Laser ablation, a growing technique for refractory epilepsy at the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital About twenty children in Spain have already benefited from laser thermal ablation, a minimally invasive technique that attacks the focus of epilepsy
