Neurosurgery Subspecialties
At the Makati Medical Center, the Department of Neurosurgery offers subspecialties which not all hospitals have the trained surgeons, skills, and equipment to perform. We pride ourselves on always looking forward to whatever techniques and treatments to serves our patients better.
Brain Tumor Program
Makati Medical Center provides expert, comprehensive care for individuals with brain tumors. Whether you have a serious, complex, or rare condition, you’ll receive the specialized care you need. Our experienced teams, composed of specialists, collaborates to create a personalized treatment plan to deliver the best possible outcomes.
Cerebrovascular Clinic
Cerebrovascular surgery includes all surgeries in which the major scope of the surgery addresses the vascular supply of the brain, such as aneurysm clipping, external–internal arterial bypass, arteriovenous malformation removal, carotid endarterectomy, or endovascular procedures.
Comprehensive Skull Base
Tumors of the skull base can affect many areas, including the region of the sinus and nose, the eye, the upper neck, and the brainstem. These areas are notoriously difficult to reach and treat. We consider all approaches including surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy or a combination of these approaches. For some people with benign tumors, treatment may be simple tumor observation with repeat MRIs over time.
Endovascular Surgery
Endovascular neurosurgery involves passing small catheters through an artery in the groin or wrist and navigating them to blood vessels in the brain. Once they have reached the brain, the endovascular neurosurgeon can use a series of devices to repair problems in arteries and veins within the head. Endovascular neurosurgery can be used to treat many disorders of the blood vessels in the head.
Endovascular neurosurgery offers advantages to open neurosurgery, including: Shorter recovery period, less discomfort; Smaller incisions; Less stress on the heart; Fewer risks for patients with other medical conditions.
Endovascular neurosurgery may be used in some instances before open surgery to help reduce the risk of excess bleeding or other complications.
Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
Minimally invasive neurosurgery describes a range of procedures for which doctors use highly specialized instruments to minimize disruption of brain tissue, nerves, and blood vessels.
Movement Disorders Surgery
The Section of Functional Neurosurgery offers surgical management of patients with movement disorders, including but not limited to: Parkinson’s disease; dystonia (especially x-linked dystonia parkinsonism or XDP); and essential tremor. We also offer options for post-stroke tremor; spasticity (pediatric and adult); and severe obsessive compulsive disorder.
Pediatric Neurosurgery
Pediatric Neurosurgery is a subspecialty of neurosurgery; which includes surgical procedures that are related to the nervous system, brain and spinal cord; that treats children with operable neurological disorders.
Spine Surgery
Neurosurgical spinal surgery involves evaluating, diagnosing, and treating neurological conditions related to the spine and spinal cord.
A neurosurgeon specializing in spine will perform back surgery to treat degenerative conditions such as back pain, spinal stenosis, scoliosis (deformity), and disk herniation, trauma (spine fractures), tumors (of spine bones and spinal cord), congenital malformations of the spine, and other diseases impacting the structure or function of the spine.
Radiosurgery
The Department of Neurosurgery, together with the Department of Radio-oncology offer both stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).
Stereotactic radiation surgery or SRS is a highly precise nonsurgical radiation therapy used to treat small tumors and functional abnormalities found in the brain. It focuses high-dose radiation on small areas, which helps preserve surrounding healthy tissue. Makati Medical Center pioneered this procedure in the country way back in 1996 using a linear accelerator, the Siemens Mevatron. Since then Makati Medical Center has moved on to a new platform of radiation therapy machines when it acquired its first TomoTherapy in 2012 and the second one recently installed in May 2017.