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This page gives you information about a condition called subconjunctival haemorrhage which is often described as blood shot.
High dose methotrexate chemotherapy is used in conjunction with other chemotherapy agents in the treatment of lymphomas and some haematological malignancies.
Liver cancer affects the liver and this is a large organ at the top right side of your abdomen that helps you to digest your food and removes toxins.
by Dr John Boyes
Thanks to a grant from Innovate UK, a new arts installation aimed to help local patients at Cheltenham and Gloucester Hospitals as part of a research project looking at how immersive technologies might be used in clinical settings in the future.
Clotted blood. (No patient preparation or special handling required)
This page gives you information on care following your therapeutic gastroscopy including banding of varices/endoscopic dilatation.
Dr Gunn trained in medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, qualifying in 2006.
This page has been written to help answer some of the questions you may have about your peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC). It also explains why you need a PICC line, what to do before you come in for the procedure and how to care for it when you are at home. If you have any other questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to speak to the nurse or doctor caring for you.
This page gives you information about how we create an Arterio-Venous (AV) fistula. We want you to have the information you need before you agree to have the procedure carried out. This information does not replace any discussions between you and your doctor. Please ask your doctor any questions you may have, so that you fully understand what is involved. If you take warfarin, clopidogrel or any other blood thinning medications you must let your surgeon and the Pre-assessment Clinic staff know.
We are committed to being open and transparent about the improvements we are making to Gloucestershire Maternity Services. We want women, birthing people, families and the community to have confidence in the care we provide and we encourage people to share their experiences with us.
We have been reflecting on our maternity services and the experiences of those who use them. We would like to share some of our thoughts and details with you about our ongoing work to improve our services.
This page gives you information about performing Intermittent Self-Dilatation (ISD).
You have been advised to have a gastroscopy, which you may also have heard being called an endoscopy or OGD (meaning an oesophageal-gastro-duodenoscopy). A diagnostic gastroscopy will help us to investigate the cause of your symptoms.
In World Breastfeeding Week, we have lots of useful information on our website to support parents to give their baby the best start in life.
Local patients are now benefitting from the ‘VScan Air’ Wireless Ultrasound to help provide faster and more accurate treatment at our hospitals.
Thanks to your kind donations, eight new electric haematology treatment couches have been funded to help improve the patient and staff experience at our hospitals.
A full von Willebrand's investigation consist of the following assays:
Deficiency of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase, results in Fabry's disease, an X-linked, recessive, lysosomal storage disease, also known as Anderson-Fabry disease.