Neurology
Neurology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Neurology deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the central and peripheral nervous systems (and their subdivisions, the autonomic and somatic nervous systems), including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue, such as muscles. The Department of Neurology provides a comprehensive array of neurology care services, subjected to patient’s medical diagnosis, current clinical indications and above 13 years of age.
Conditions treated in neurology department are:
- Accelerated hypertension with encephalopathy
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Ataxia, diagnosis/treatment
- Bell’s palsy
- Brain injury and brain death
- Brainstem disease
- Central or peripheral nervous system disease
- Coma from all causes, including: -degenerative disease -due to coma, with or without increased intracranial pressure -infectious -inflammatory -metabolic -toxic
- Dementia, diagnose/management
- Diseases of the brachial and lumbar plexuses
- Epilepsy, including cases difficult to control
- Infarction, with altered level of consciousness, including -brainstem -cerebral -embolus -hemorrhage
- Infectious disease in patients with neurological impairment
- Migraine
- Movement disorders
- Multiple sclerosis and autoimmune disorders of nervous system
- Muscle disease, including: -dystrophies -inflammatory -metabolic myopathies
- Neuro-oncologic disorders
- Parkinson’s disease
- Sleep disorders
- Stroke
