Neurology

Often, underlying internal diseases such as arterial hypertension, elevated blood lipid levels, diabetes mellitus or so-called type A gastritis with resulting vitamin B-12 deficiency cause neurological diseases such as strokes or polyneuropathy.

Therefore, neurology is related to many other specialties, because neurological diseases rarely represent an isolated process.

Specialists from the field of neurology work in our MEDIZINICUM Hamburg. Our team of 50 experienced doctors from 25 disciplines work together in an interdisciplinary manner to take a holistic view of your symptoms and make a targeted diagnosis.

Top priority for prevention in neurology

Our neurological department (neurology) in Hamburg is optimally equipped for all constellations. A modern electrophysiological measuring unit is also available for diagnostics and there is close cooperation with the radiology department for imaging the neurological organs (especially brain, nerves and spinal cord). Of course, the prevention of neuological events has top priority. In the case of an increased cardiovascular risk profile, i.e. an increased risk constellation also for strokes, there is close interdisciplinary cooperation with the internal medicine departments of our hospital. Or also orthopaedics, e.g. in the case of degenerative changes in the spinal column with impairment of the spinal cord structures. Of course, there are also purely neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's disease, for whose treatment our neurological department has the greatest possible expertise.

Diseases of the
central nervous system

Inflammatory / autoimmune diseases:
Multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders, acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (ADEM), autoimmune encephalitis (e.g. NMDAR encephalitis, limbic E., Morvan syndrome, Stiff person syndrome, PERM, cerebellitis with ataxia, hereditary ataxias and spastic parapares)
Neurodegenerative diseases:
Demental syndromes, Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, Pick's disease and other frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Parkinson's disease, lower body Parkinson's disease, normal pressure hydrocephalus, Huntington's disease

Diseases of the
peripheral nervous system

Peripheral nerve bottleneck syndrome
Polyneuropathies on a heriditary (e.g. amyloidosis, DNA repeat diseases, trophic factors), immune (antibodies against gangliosides), (para)infectious, systemic (diabetes mellitus, toxic, vitamin deficiency), endocrine and paraneoplastic basis.

Motor and sensory polyneuropathies, small fibre polyneuropathy, autonomous polyneuropathies, inflammatory polyneuropathins such as acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathies (AIDP) and their chronic forms (CIDP)