HLA San Carlos Inaugurates the new Unit of Infectious Diseases, expanding its portfolio of services and incorporating professionals of high level. As the specialist in Internal Medicine, especially in the field of diseases infections, Dr. Marco Lattur, licensed at the University of Valencia.
The professionals of the new service collaborate with the other specialties in the care of the multi-patient patient, with complex diseases and difficult diagnosis or treatment, as well as providing advice in the field of infections and use of antimicrobial treatments, to make a rational use of the antibiotics. "The close treatment offered to the patient in HLA San Carlos Office, As well as close interprofessional collaboration, is an excellent tool for an integral approach and therefore beneficial to the patient. The Infectious Diseases Unit will be responsible for treating any infectious diseases such as hepatitis, HIV, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases and other"Says the internist.
"In addition, we will offer travelers advice on prevention measures to travelers who choose destinations such as Africa or countries in the tropics. The migratory movements that exist from one country to another make us face imported diseases such as Chagas disease or malaria ", Comments the doctor, being able to give coverage also to this type of pathologies in our unit.
Similarly, the Unit for Infectious Diseases aims to support patients under immunosuppressive treatments, which are all those drugs that are used to treat neoplasias, or even other non-neoplastic pathologies such as digestive, rheumatologic or dermatological inflammatory diseases And whose use supposes a decrease of the immunity of the patient and therefore a potential risk of reactivation of possible latent infections.
A unit to fight HIV infection and hepatitis
HIV infection and hepatitis C are two very mediatic diseases that we underestimate and we think they can never hurt us. A belief that is contradicted by the data, since according to the WHO, there are between 130.000 and 160.000 affected by HIV in Spain. Data from the Ministry of Health show that there are more than 95.000 diagnosed by the hepatitis C virus, and although there is no conclusive data on it, experts point out that 500.000 would actually be the ones that suffer from this disease, although half of Spaniards do not know .
"All the population is potentially susceptible to be able to acquire this type of infections if they practice risky behaviors and / or do not take the necessary preventive measures" Highlights Dr. Marco. Since these infections are transmitted sexually and blood from infected persons "A correct primary prevention passes through a good knowledge at the population level of what these diseases are, being the dissemination of information about this type of infections, knowledge of transmission mechanisms to avoid infection and the need for early detection, Fundamental pillars for an early approach".
