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Acerca de la especialidad
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Neurology is the medical specialty that deals with the study and management of diseases that affect the central and/or peripheral nervous system.
¿Cuándo consultar?
¿Cuándo consultar?
When a symptom or condition occurs that may suggest an alteration or compromise in the nervous system. These symptoms are varied, such as:
- Headache
- Weakness
- Alteration in memory
- Speech disturbance
- Change in gait
- Suspicion of epileptic seizure
- Alteration of sensitivity
- Presence of abnormal movements
- Disturbances in sleep
- Confusion pictures
- Among others.
¿Por qué elegirnos?
Why choose us?
- We have excellent clinical neurologists, trained in the best educational institutions in the country, who have subspecialty/fellow training in areas of specific branches of neurology: muscle and peripheral nerve neurophysiology, electroencephalography and epilepsy, sleep, and polysomnography. Which gives us a strength in the advanced management of complex neurological conditions and pathologies.
- We have the comprehensive support and company of other specialties and subspecialties, whose work optimizes the diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitation approach of patients from a multidisciplinary approach, such as neuroradiology, nuclear medicine, general and functional neurosurgery, and physiatry.
- In addition, we have a cerebrovascular attack protocol with the possibility of basic management with venous thrombolysis and the on-site availability of a clinical neurologist as well as an emergency physician for this purpose, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, which is particularly relevant considering that the window of possibility of offering treatment in said condition is 4 and a half hours once the symptoms are established.
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Neurology is the medical specialty that deals with the study and management of diseases that affect the central and/or peripheral nervous system.
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An epileptic seizure is the transient appearance of signs and/or symptoms due to excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain.
Epilepsy is a brain disorder characterized by the permanent predisposition to generate epileptic seizures and by the neurobiological, cognitive, psychological and social consequences of this disorder. The definition of epilepsy requires that at least one epileptic seizure occur.
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