Medipol University Hospital: Department of pediatrics

Pediatricians at Medipol accept children aged 0 to 17 years. Doctors provide treatment in 12 directions round-the-clock.

Pediatricians at Medipol clinic conduct consultations with children in colored rooms with a playground and a waiting room. In such a playful environment, kids do not feel like in a hospital, but at home.

The department of pediatrics accepts patients in the following specializations:

• Neonatology;
• Endocrinology and metabolism;
• Infectious diseases;
• Pulmonology;
• Hematology;
• Immunology and allergology;
• Cardiovascular surgery;
• Cardiology;
• Neurology;
• Nephrology;
• Rheumatology;
• Urology.

Pulmonology (chest diseases)

In the Turkish clinic Medipol, doctors diagnose and treat children with prolonged or repeated coughs, wheezing. It accepts patients with chronic and acute forms of disease. Most often, pulmonologists treat the following pathologies:

• Asthma;
• Cystic fibrosis;
• Bronchiolitis;
• Sleep disturbances and snoring;
• Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome;
• Foreign body in the respiratory tract.

The hospital carries out the following types of respiratory system diagnostics:

• Diagnostic tests — functional respiratory, allergy and sweat tests;
• Diagnostic and therapeutic flexible bronchoscopy.

Doctors provide follow-up for children with tracheostomy, non-invasive ventilation (BiPAP, CPAP, providing respiratory support without intubation), and remote ventilation (home respiratory support and monitoring).

Department of pediatric neurology

In the Medipol clinic, doctors carry out diagnostics using:

• EEG / long-term EEG video monitoring;
• Magnetic resonance imaging 3 Tesla, which allows to obtain images of slices;
• Functional MRI;
• Ictal and interctal SPECT;
• PET research.

Kids with learning disabilities undergo an age-appropriate neuropsychometric assessment with speech delay and speech disorders — an audiological assessment.

The most common diseases with which patients turn to the neurology center are:

• Seizures and epilepsy;
• Pathology of the neuromuscular system;
• Congenital progressive metabolic and / or degenerative diseases that develop as a result of deficiency or accumulation of some basic elements;
• Multiple sclerosis, which develops as a result of problems with the immune system;
• Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (PSP) and neurological problems.

Specialists of the center of neurology take on even difficult cases: cerebral palsy and stroke, premature newborns at risk.

Pediatric nephrology

Specialists of this department most often accept children with the following diagnoses:

• Vesicoureteral reflux;
• Hydronephrosis;
• Childhood hypertension;
• Pediatric urolithiasis;
• Proteinuria, hematuria syndrome;
• Renal failure (chronic and acute).

In this department, doctors are qualified and equipped to perform peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis.

Pediatric urology

Urologists of Medipol diagnose and treat such pathologies of the urinary and reproductive organs:

• Cysts, tumors and kidney stones;
• Obstruction of the renal junction of the ureter;
• Obstruction of the junction of the ureter and bladder;
• Pathological dilatation of the ureter;
• Vesicoureteral reflux (urine leakage from the bladder into the ureter);
• Bladder infections;
• Improper opening of the urethra in boys (hypospadias);
• Undescended testicles;
• Hydrocele;
• Cyst of the spermatic cord;
• Orchiepididymitis (inflammation of the testicles);
• Balanitis and balanoposthitis (inflammation of the foreskin);
• Prostatitis.