Prestige in Brain and Central Nervous System Care
Since 1928, Otamendi Hospital has been a reference center for the diagnosis and treatment of nervous system diseases. Today, with the same level of medical excellence, new investments in infrastructure, and cutting-edge technology, we aim to provide comprehensive care for patients with neurological diseases, with a multidisciplinary approach, from emergencies and high complexity to outpatient follow-up. Our professional and technical team aims to offer patients an innovative and personalized approach to provide quality care. We also seek to promote medical quality, understanding that working together with primary care doctors is the main axis of assistance.
Services
● 24-hour neurology and neurosurgery emergency services.
● Continuous follow-up of hospitalized patients by our staff doctors together with primary care doctors.
● Neuroimaging studies with MRI and CT scans available 24 hours.
● Sleep laboratory.
● Neurophysiology laboratory.
● Simple, activated, prolonged, and sleep electroencephalograms (EEG).
● Brain Mapping.
● Video EEG.
● 24-hour EEG monitoring.
● Visual, Auditory, and Somatosensory Evoked Potentials.
● Electromyography.
● Interdisciplinary team for stroke management: emergency team, neurologist, Diagnostic imaging team, cerebral hemodynamics team, and neurosurgeon.
● Outpatient neurology and neurosurgery clinics.
Neurology:
● Specialists in cerebrovascular diseases.
● Specialists in neuroimmunology.
● Specialists in neuromuscular pathologies.
● Specialists in epilepsy.
● Specialists in abnormal movements.
● Specialists in headaches.
● Specialists in sleep.
● Application of botulinum toxin.
● Levodopa test.
● Cognitive evaluations.
● Language evaluations.
● Cognitive stimulation.
● Language stimulation.
● Pain specialists.
Neurosurgery:
● Emergencies in neurological trauma and neurovascular injuries.
● Specialists in CNS and skull base surgeries.
● Specialists in spinal surgeries.
● Specialists in peripheral nerves and plexus surgeries.
● Specialists in abnormal movement surgeries (Parkinson’s disease).
● Specialists in epilepsy surgery.
● Specialists in orbital surgery.
Medical Staff
- Alejandro Giacchino, Head of the Neurology and Neurosurgery Center
- Matías Alet, Vascular Neurology
- Analisa Manín, Neuroimmunology
- Gonzalo Nieto, Nerve and Muscle Pathology
- Alejandro Nasimbera, Epilepsy
- Javier Groppo, Abnormal Movements
- Santiago Guaycochea, Pain Unit
- Dr. Armando Basso, Neurosurgery
- Dr. Marcelo Acuña, Micro-neurosurgery of Spine and Orbit
- Tomas Funes, Oncological, Endoscopic, and Emergency Neurosurgery
- Pedro Lylyk, Endovascular Neurosurgery
