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Department of Neuroradiology

The Department of Neuroradiology specializes in diseases of the head, neck and spine. We examine you with the most modern imaging techniques. We are also specialists in the minimally invasive treat...

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Epilepsy treatment, electroencephalography, evoked potentials

Epilepsies are among the most common neurological disorders and require appropriate electrophysiological diagnostics, which are offered together with other examinations in the Department of Epilept...

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Epilepsy surgery

Although a broad spectrum of antiepileptic drugs is available today, only 70-80% of patients are free of seizures. Up to 30% of patients suffer from pharmacoresistant epilepsy and can benefit from ...

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Atrial fibrillation treatment

Atrial fibrillation is the most common persistent arrhythmia in adults. This results in a very rapid and uncoordinated movement of the two atria. The discomfort caused by the irregular rapid pulse ...

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Atrial fibrillation

Atrial fibrillation is the most common persistent cardiac arrhythmia, with exponentially more people affected with increasing age. It can be recognized by palpitations, stumbling or rapid heartbeat...

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Percutaneous coronary heart catheterization and interventions (balloon dilatation and stent implantation)

Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) was developed by Andreas Grüntzig in 1977 at the University Hospital Zurich, where it was also used for the first time. Since then, the cathete...

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Genital warts

Genital warts are a viral disease that can affect certain parts of the body such as the vagina, the cervix, the external genitals, the penis and the anus with the anal canal.

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Genital warts therapy

Which therapy is suitable for genital warts depends on the location and spread of the skin lesions. However, it is important that you overcome any shame you may have and take the first step into th...

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Laser in urology

Laser technology in medicine has long since ceased to be science fiction. In urology, we can draw on a variety of different modern laser types to treat different diseases gently, minimally invasive...

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Sexually transmitted diseases Diagnosis and treatment

Sexually transmitted diseases are sexually transmitted diseases. Pathogens can be viruses, bacteria, fungi or parasites. The most common sexually transmitted diseases in Switzerland today include h...

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Mechanical thrombectomy and thrombolysis for strokes

In an acute stroke, a blood vessel in the brain is blocked by a blood clot. The result is reduced blood flow to the brain, which often leads to a cerebral infarction. This in turn is often accompan...

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Services offered by the Zurich Stroke Center

Interdisciplinary cooperation is essential for the optimal care of stroke patients. The focal point of the collaboration is the interdisciplinary neurovascular case discussion, at which our special...

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Stroke: treatment, care and rehabilitation

The Zurich Stroke Center offers round-the-clock emergency and acute treatment for strokes. During the critical phase, the team cares for patients on a highly specialized monitoring ward. Possible c...

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Stroke: Physiotherapy and occupational therapy treatment

Depending on which areas are cut off from the blood supply, different functional disorders occur. Hemiplegia and hemiparesis are typical. Most of the recovery from neurological deficits occurs in t...

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Restoration of the vessels supplying the brain in the case of constrictions (stenoses)

Narrowing (stenosis) of the carotid or cerebral arteries is most frequently caused by artherosclerotic wall deposits. These constrictions can reduce or even completely prevent blood flow to the bra...

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Lymphomas

Lymphocytes, which belong to the white blood cells, normally fight off pathogens. In the lymphatic system, they travel through the entire body to fight viruses and bacteria. In the case of lymphoma...

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Lymphoma treatment

Lymphomas and myelomas are malignant diseases that originate in the lymphatic system, a part of the immune system. Many different types of these diseases with different clinical courses are known t...

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Rectus diastasis therapy

Rectus diastasis often occurs during pregnancy and does not require treatment per se. It often occurs at the same time as an umbilical hernia, but is not a hernia itself.

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Melanoma (black skin cancer) Therapy

Treatment depends primarily on the depth of penetration of the melanoma.

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Melanoma Radiotherapy

Radiation therapy (also known as radiotherapy) is used for skin cancer in the various stages of the disease, either as the sole therapy or together with surgery and system therapy/immunotherapy/tar...

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When the skin constantly itches

Neurodermatitis is one of the most common chronic diseases in children. But many adults are also affected. The disease is not curable. But there are many ways to live well with it. And it is not un...

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Prostate cancer radiotherapy

Radiotherapy (also known as radiotherapy) is used for prostate cancer in the various stages of the disease in order to achieve a cure for the disease (curative radiotherapy), either alone or togeth...

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Prostate cancer therapy

At the Prostate Cancer Center, we offer a comprehensive range of services for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care of prostate cancer.

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HIFU therapy for prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors worldwide, but it can be treated very successfully. With surgical removal of the prostate as a treatment option, however, there is a risk ...