International Neuroscience Institute Hannover - Departments

The Department of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery offers the full range of modern interventions in the fields of its competence. The highly qualified team of the department's surgeons specializes in surgery to correct defects after injuries and resection of tumors, congenital malformations, as well as in aesthetic interventions to improve the patient's appearance without clinical indications for surgery. The department's experts are focused on providing individualized medical care, which significantly increases the chances of a favorable outcome of surgical treatment. The modern operating rooms of the department strictly comply with all hygiene and safety standards. Whenever possible, operations are performed using sparing surgical techniques, which allows the patient to recover from the intervention as soon as possible and return to a full life. In addition, such surgical procedures almost do not leave any scars. The medical team working in the department always strives to provide the patient with the best and most natural result of plastic surgery.

The Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Traumatology offers a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic services for patients with musculoskeletal diseases and injuries. The focus of the department's medical team is on patients with diseases of the knee, hip, shoulder, elbow and ankle joints. The department's experienced surgeons most often perform arthroscopic interventions, as well as partial and total joint replacement surgery. Revision interventions to replace previously implanted prostheses are also within the competence of the department's orthopedists. The department's experts devote enough time to counseling patients, explaining the features of upcoming treatment and expected therapy results. When performing surgical treatment, the doctors widely use sparing minimally invasive and arthroscopic techniques, and therefore postoperative recovery takes place in the shortest possible time. Moreover, the patient experiences only mild pain. To consolidate the results of the main course of treatment, the patients undergo an individually selected course of physiotherapy.

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Diagnostic, Interventional Neuroradiology provides the full range of services in the areas of its specialization. The department's medical team provides high quality diagnostic tests to assess the state of the central and peripheral nervous system, as well as modern interventional image-guided procedures on the blood vessels of the brain. The department has a Siemens 1.5 T MRI scanner, a device for functional magnetic resonance imaging, a 128-slice computed tomography scanner, a biplane angiography system, a device for digital subtraction angiography and 3D rotational angiography system, which allow the doctors to comprehensively examine the patient's nervous system and detect the most insignificant pathological changes. All of these devices are also used during image-guided therapeutic interventional procedures. For example, facet joint block involves CT-guided injections of painkillers, which ensures the safety of the procedure. The department uses a modern picture archiving and communication system, with the help of which all doctors from other departments of the hospital have access to the results of patient diagnostic examinations. In addition, this system provides access to the diagnostic results to doctors from partner hospitals in especially complex clinical cases, when the patient needs to get a second opinion.

The Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery performs the full range of surgical interventions to treat diseases of the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nervous system. The department admits both adults and children. The specially trained team of pediatric neurosurgeons takes care of the health of young patients. The key attention in clinical practice is paid to the surgical treatment of oncological diseases of the nervous system, including tumors of the brain, spinal canal, skull base and pituitary gland. The surgical treatment of epilepsy in adults and children, operations for aneurysms and vascular malformations are also among the priority areas of work of the department's neurosurgeons. The interventions are performed in high-tech operating rooms, in compliance with all standards of hygiene and safety. Most surgical procedures are carefully planned using computed tomography and brain mapping systems, which excludes damage to functionally important anatomical structures. Whenever possible, the preference is given to sparing surgical techniques, with surgical access through one or more small incisions.

The Department of Neurology offers the full range of diagnostic examinations and conservative treatments for the patients suffering from diseases of the nervous system. The department mostly deals with the treatment of patients with movement disorders (for example, Parkinson's disease, tremor), multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular diseases, dystonia, chronic back pain, chronic headache, polyneuropathies, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, infectious diseases of the nervous system, stroke, etc. Thanks to long clinical experience of doctors and high-tech equipment of the department, the patients can be sure to benefit from the accurate diagnostics, which determines the success of follow-up therapeutic measures. Neurologists cooperate closely with neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists, therefore, if a neurosurgical intervention or image-guided interventional procedure is required, the patient receives medical care from highly qualified specialists. The work of the department's medical team is based on an individual approach to each clinical case, due to which it achieves high treatment success rates.