Neurology

Diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of neurological diseases are conducted at Kent Hospital department of neurology. In addition to this, neurology and consultation services for patients applying to emergency service are provided.   

The following units serve at the neurology department;
 • Electromyography (EMG) unit 
 • Electroencephalography (EEG) unit
 • Epilepsy and sleep disorders unit 

Diseases diagnosed and treated at the department of neurology
 • Headache 
 • Migrain and other vascular headache
 • Tension type headache 
 • Cerviogenic headache 
 • Temporal arthritis 
 • Neuralgia, etc.

Vertigo 
 • Central vertigo
 • Peripheral vertigo

Cerebrovascular diseases
 • Occlusive paralysis (palsy) 
 • Cerebral hemorrhage

Dementia-dysmnesia and senility
 • Alzheimer’s disease and other generative progressive dementia
 • Dementia as a result of cerebrovascular diseases (vascular dementia)
 • Mild cognitive disorder 

Movement disorders
 • Parkinson’s disease
 • Essential tremor
 • Dystonia, dyskinesia and other movement disorders

Epilepsy and sleep disorders
 • Focal and generalized epilepsy 
 • Status Epilepticus
 • Ekbom syndrome 
 • Snoring and sleep apnea syndrome

Demyelinating diseases
 • Multiple sclerosis
 • Acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis
 • Transverse mytelitis, etc

Peripheral nerve diseases
 • Neuropathic pain
 • Metabolic, nutritional and toxic neuropathy
 • Immune neuropathy
 • Guillen Barre syndrome, etc
 • Motor Nöron Hastalıkları (Motor neuron diseases)
 • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

Neuromuscular junction diseases
 • Myastenia Gravis

Musclar Diseases
 • Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (dystrophinopathies)
 • Junction type muscular dystrophy 
 • Myotonic dystrophy
 • Facioscapulohumoral muscular dystrophy (FSH)
 • Emery-Dreifuss Facioskapulohumeral
 • Congenital Facioskapulohumeral 
 • Congenital myopathy 
 • Metabolic myopathy
 • Mitochondrial muscular diseases 

Confusional Conditions
 • Delirium
 • Encephalitis 
 
Support of a developed laboratory makes significant contribution to diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases. Especially uninterrupted radiology service and CT, MR, angiography, interventional neuroradiology practices being very significant for cerebrovascular diseases are performed at Kent Hospital.