Today is World Pulmonary Hypertension Day. In the evening, the Dancing House will also be symbolically lit up in blue for patients! The Pulmonary Hypertension Center can be found in the Czech Republic only at the General Hospital. In its 21 years of existence, it has performed more than 500 operations on Czech and foreign patients and is one of the few European workplaces where a unique operation for thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is performed. Pulmonary ...
Have your eye pressure measured, protect your eyesight
World Glaucoma Week (March 9-15) draws attention to a disease that, if not detected and treated in time, leads to irreversible blindness! Glaucoma causes the gradual death of the optic nerve and manifests itself with increased intraocular pressure. This can be easily detected by examination. As part of World Glaucoma Week, experts from the Eye Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the General Hospital of Prague offer interested parties from a wide range of ...
Gene therapy can prevent vision loss
Up to one in 1,490 inhabitants of the Czech Republic suffers from one of the many types of hereditary retinal diseases. It is a group of rare diseases that can be passed from parents to children. They are manifested, for example, by a decrease in visual acuity, a color vision disorder, photophobia, impaired vision in the dark or a limitation of the field of vision. Hereditary retinal diseases are one of the most common causes of vision loss in children and ...
Women with courage - the campaign will help women not to drink!
VFN is the expert guarantor of the awareness campaign targeting women addicted to alcohol. "In the 1960s, there was one woman for every 7 men in an anti-alcohol treatment facility, today the ratio is 2:1," says Olga Pecinovská, head physician of the Women's Bed Department of the Addiction Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine, UK and VFN. The number of Czechs who have a problem with alcohol is increasing. For those who need and want...
The brain intervention relieved the patient of her hand tremors
Neurologists from the Neurological Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of the University of Prague and VFN in Prague and neurosurgeons from the Department of Stereotactic and Radiation Neurosurgery at the Na Homolce Hospital introduced a stimulation electrode to a completely new location in the brain for the first time in the Czech Republic. Before the procedure, the patient suffering from Parkinson's disease could not sign, drink from a glass, use a computer mouse or shake someone's hand. Post-operative results and first ...
Medicines are not candy!
MEDICATION ADVICE OR DRUGS ARE NOT CANDY Not sure how to take the prescribed medications correctly and how to combine them? Are you worried about side effects? What about the large number of medications that your grandparents or parents take? Are they taking them correctly? Fill out the drug counseling questionnaire and you will immediately find out whether a personal or online consultation with our...