The Neurological Department of St. Luke's Hospital accepts, examines and treats patients with acute or chronic neurological diseases.

What is Neurology?

Neurology is the specialty that deals with the study of the pathology of the nervous system, namely:

• Brain
• Spinal cord
• Peripheral nerves

In other words, a neurologist is the pathologist of the nervous system. Neurology, for many years now, has been a separate specialty from Psychiatry, which deals with purely mental illnesses and disorders that have causes of psychogenic and not with the organic diseases of the nervous system.

To whom is the Neurological Department addressed?

The diseases that fall within the sphere of neurology are:

• Strokes
• Epilepsies
• Multiple sclerosis
• Parkinson's disease
• Dementia
  
• Polyneuropathies
• Myopathies
• Myasthenia
• Different forms of headache

Symptoms that often need to be assessed by a neurologist are:

• Weakness - generalized or that involving one or two limbs
  
• Numbness
• Headache
• Unstable gait
  
• Shakiness

Human resources of the Neurological Department

Our Neurological Department consists of neurologists, who, in addition to their involvement in general Neurology, have additional specialisations in specific branches of Neurology. In collaboration with the nursing staff, they provide 24-hour counselling and healthcare to the Hospital patients. In addition, they are responsible for the patients who are hospitalised, as well as their laboratory examinations, often with the cooperation of the other departments of the Hospital.

Examinations carried out in the department

The examinations that are carried out in the Hospital are:

• Electroencephalogram
• Neurophysiological testing (electromyogram)
• Transcranial Ultrasound of the cerebral vessels
  
• Long-term Video-Electroencephalographic monitoring
• Complete study of cerebrospinal fluid

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In collaboration with other laboratories in Greece or abroad, there is also the possibility for genetic testing in the case of various hereditary diseases of the nervous system. Finally, in collaboration with other specialties, it is possible to perform an ingestion study for patients with similar problems.

Hospitalisation in the Neurological Department

At St. Luke's Hospital we accept patients with both acute and chronic cases, as there is also the possibility of rehabilitation in the Hospital's Department of Physical Rehabilitation.

Philosophy of the department

The goal of the people of the department is to accompany patients throughout the course of the disease, providing counselling and treatment of high standards. Knowing that many patients suffer for many years from underlying neurological diseases, the philosophy of the medical and nursing staff is to be next to these patients and their needs.

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