Introducing Gachon Brain Health Center

Brain Health Center in Gil Hospital of Gachon University

Brain Health Center in Gil Hospital of Gachon University provides specialized neurological disease care including stroke, peripheral nerve disorder, musculoskeletal disease, epilepsy, movement disorders, Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, brain tumor, and headache from its diagnosis, surgical and non-surgical treatment to rehabilitation in cooperation of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Rehabilitation Medicine departments.

Brain Health Center has achieved annual average of 1,200 surgical cases including emergency as well as microsurgery. In addition to top-rated surgical technique for Parkinson’s disease and stereotactic surgery, Fetal Mesencephalic Transplantation and epilepsy surgery have also been performed actively.

Minimally invasive surgery is used to treat various neurological diseases such as stroke; ruptured cerebral aneurysm that causes subarachnoid hemorrhage; or unruptured cerebral aneurysm; cerebral arteriovenous malformation; carotid cavernous fistula; cartoid artery stenosis; recanalization of closed vessels due to thrombosis; percutaneous transluminal angioplasty on narrowed vessels inside cranial cavity; and spinal vascular disease. Minimally invasive surgery is also used as the pre-op procedure of brain tumor surgery to reduce the amount of bleeding during the surgery by blocking off blood supply.

Stroke Clinic in Gachon Brain Health Center provides prompt systematic diagnosis and treatment for all stroke patients admitted as outpatients or in emergency. Intensive Stroke Care Unit is operated under close collaboration of various medical departments to offer the best environment for fast recovery.