Neurological university clinic and stroke unit
Medical director: Prof. Dr. med. A. C. Ludolph
Neurologist and psychiatrist
Personal details
Secretary:
Ms G. Pirch
Tel.: 0731 177-1201
Fax: 0731 177-1202
Email: albert.ludolph@rku.de
The Neurological University Clinic has its wards for hospitalised patients in the RKU. It covers the entire sphere of neurology and provides a stroke monitoring unit and an epilepsy monitoring unit. Nursing and research focus on the following areas:
- Motor system diseases (ALS, spinal muscular atrophy, Kennedy's disease, hereditary spastic parapareses)
- Extrapyramidal motor system illnesses such as Parkinson's disease, atypical Parkinson syndromes, Huntington
- Stroke
- Types of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease
- Inflammatory nervous system diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, meningitis and encephalitis
- Epilepsy
- Neuromuscular diseases
- Neurofibromatosis and other tumour-related illnesses of the nervous system
- Ataxiae such as spinocerebellar ataxiae, Friedreich's ataxia and sporadic ataxiae including gluten ataxia
- Neurological pain syndromes
Motor system diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are also treated with ancillary therapeutic strategies such as home respiration, PEG monitoring and communication therapy.
The Neurological University Clinic has room for more than 70 neurology patients who are given individualised treatment tailored to the patient's personal needs and covering the entire range from acute therapy for hospitalised patients to early rehabilitation and follow-on cure. There are three intensive care places and a stroke unit with 16 monitored beds available for fast and comprehensive diagnostics, therapy and intensive medical care. Three video stations allow the ongoing monitoring of epilepsy patients. The clinic provides all apparatus-based examination methods, including a complete set of diagnostic x-ray equipment such as magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) and computer tomography (CT).
Cooperation with Ulm university's department of nuclear medicine also provides access to positron emission tomography (PET). This diagnostic method often reveals a therapeutically relevant clinical allocation of various neurodegenerative diseases. Further surgical treatment of our patients can also rely on our close cooperation with Ulm university's department of vascular and neurosurgery.
Once out of hospital, our patients are given follow-on treatment at the neurological outpatient department of Ulm university, mainly in consultations with specialists. Follow this link to learn more about the outpatient department of the neurological university clinic and its specialist consultation hours: http://www.uniklinik-ulm.de/struktur/kliniken/neurologie.html
To have potentially effective therapies at hand for patients suffering from chronic or incurable illnesses, the neurological university clinic is always very interested in contributing to promising treatment studies.