Neurology

Tertiary Stroke Centre

• Bellvitge Hospital is a Tertiary Stroke Centre that takes part in the ICS corporate neurovascular emergency shift with a neurovascular Unit on duty to ensure endovascular reperfusion treatments. We have a Stroke Unit with 10 beds. In 2017 we attended 760 Stroke Codes, performing 132 endovenous treatments and 170 thrombectomies.

Multiple Sclerosis Unit-ME Network

• The Multiple Sclerosis Unit at our centre is one of the oldest in the country. It currently cares for around 700 patients in specific treatment for this disease, takes part in different clinical trials, and has been involved in various research projects leading to several Doctoral Theses. It has helped train specialists in ME who are now working in hospitals in our surrounding area. Structural care is being developed in a Network with other centres in our surrounding area in order to care for patients in their home and to work together with other care systems (primary care, community healthcare, etc.)

Multi-Disciplinary Motor Neurone Disease Unit

• Our centre has the first multi-disciplinary care unit for patients with motor neurone diseases. We work actively with the Miquel Valls Foundation supporting patients with ALS. This model provide comprehensive care to patients and their families, avoiding the different visits on different days, so that the patient is seen by all the specialists required on the same day.

Functional Epilepsy Surgery and refractory epilepsy unit

• The Department has an Epilepsy Unit where patients with refractory epilepsy are seen and that admits patients for continuous video monitoring. We also have a multi-disciplinary unit to assess whether refractory patients are candidates for epilepsy surgery.

Movement Disorder and Movement Disorder Surgery Unit

• The Movement Disorder Unit at our centre provides care for patients with different diseases (Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, PSP, etc.) and is one of the few units in our country to offer the entire range of possible treatments for advanced Parkinson’s disease.

Neuro-oncology Unit

• Thanks to the proximity and collaboration of the Hospital and the ICO, and among the different departments (neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, radiotherapy, etc.), the Functional Neuro-oncology Unit was created to care for patients with neurological complications, cancer patients, and patients suffering from some kind of brain tumor with comprehensive, multi-disciplinary coverage.

Neuromuscular Unit

• Our professionals are a benchmark in tertiary care and caring for patients with neuromuscular pathologies (neuropathies, myopathies, myasthenia, etc.), participating in national and international research projects.

Southern Metropolitan Headache Unit

• This unit is made up of professionals from HUB and from Viladecans Hospital who specialise in the treatment of refractory headaches, acting as a centre of reference when the specialists in the area or from other centres around us need support or specialist treatments (toxin, infiltrations, etc.) for patients with headaches. It takes part in international clinical trials and its members are a reference in the handling of headaches in Spain.

Intraoperative Monitoring Unit

• In order to reduce the surgical complications associated to neurosurgical treatment, the neurophysiology section has an intraoperative monitoring unit. Our centre was one of the first in Spain to implement it, and it is now an essential tool for neurosurgeons to ensure they do their job properly in the operating theatre. The neurophysiology section provides support for the critical units of the hospital (ICU, REA, Coro) in the diagnosis and treatment of comas, prognostic assessment, EEG sedation status monitoring, etc. This improves the prognosis in cases with status, and provides support in decision making regarding patients in anoxic or post-traumatic coma.

Dementia Diagnosis and Treatment Unit

• Our DDTU acts as a reference for our region of direct influence for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cognitive impairment. It works together with our neurologists at the Specialist Care Centres and performs neuropsychological evaluations for them and for other hospitals in our region.

Metabolic Diseases Clinic

We have a clinic assisting with metabolic diseases that cause neurological complications (Niemann-Pick, Pompe, etc.) that, along with other units from the Department, is included in the Minority Diseases Unit.