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A pacemaker is an electronic device that generates electrical impulses to the heart. They are designed for people who can not keep up and often beats properly because your natural pacemaker is not working properly. The artificial pacemaker is a cardiac pacing system that controls and monotoriza cardiac electrical activity and causes electrical impulses are triggered. There are two types of pacemakers: temporary and permanent. Permanent pacemaker implantation is done by...

Pediatric oncology refers to childhood cancer. The most common childhood cancers are leukemias, brain tumors, lymphomas and bone tumors, among others.

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Pain treatment is supportive therapy that tries to alleviate the pain casuan certain diseases. The most common are headaches or migraines, back pain or joint. It is a subspecialty that address various specialists such as anesthesiologists, neurosurgeons, psychologists, rehabilitation, tramatólogos or acupuncturists.

The term encompasses all painful foot problems that can cause pain in any part of the foot (heel, arch, instep, plant or fingers). The foot pain can be caused by a condition only developed locally, for example, plantar fasciitis caused so much pain in the foot as pain in the heel. Other injuries also generate pain in the area are bunions, metatarsalgia, ram, flat feet or tripe. Also, the painful foot can be another sign of other diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis,...

The term encompasses painful shoulder all the problems that can cause shoulder pain. The causes that can trigger a disease or injury in the shoulder may be in the degeneration of the tendons due to wear, work, or sports physicals efforts repeatedly and violent trauma. The general symptom of shoulder pain is pain that may be accompanied by loss of arm mobility. The concept encompasses clinical conditions as rotator cuff tendinitis, calcium tendinitis, rotator cuff tear,...

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Pancreas surgery is the set of surgical procedures are performed to treat acute or chronic pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer. In the latter case, there are different surgical procedures: Whipple operation, total pancreatectomy, distal pancreatectomy and biliary diversion. Whipple surgery involves removal of the head of the pancreas, part of the small intestine and some surrounding tissue. The surgeon leaves a small part of the pancreas to continue to produce digestive juices...