Teknon Medical Center

Teknon is located in a 17th century manor house that belongs to the architectural heritage of Catalonia. The hospital has a beautiful garden where patients can walk and relax.

The rooms are single and spacious: with a bath, air conditioning, work area and internet. Patients are comfortably accommodated with an accompanying person or a child. The Teknon corridors are quiet, with separate waiting rooms on each floor of the hospital with coffee machines, water and sweets.

In 1994, the American Healthcare Corporation renovated Teknon, retaining only the façade. The hospital was designed according to the advanced US standards, so today modern equipment was placed in the spacious corridors and operating rooms: 2 closed and open MRI machines, PET-CT and CT, 2 TruBim accelerators, a neurosurgical robot Neuromat, an ultrasonic scalpel HIFU and a medical laser.

IoT is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. According to US News, this is the best private cancer center in the United States. Teknon works according to American principles: a team of doctors consists of 24 oncologists and a group of surgeons of 6 profiles. Each doctor has over 10 years of experience in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. According to Forbes, the Teknon Institute of Oncology is run by the best radio oncologist in Spain — Raymond Miralbell. The professor is involved in medical research at Harvard and the University of Geneva. The doctor has developed a new type of radiation therapy for prostate cancer One Shot. This will shorten the course of treatment from 6 weeks to one 15 minute session.

Teknon provides: immunotherapy, radiosurgery, robotic and non-invasive ultrasound surgery. Therefore, the treatment is quick and comfortable.

Spain has one of the lowest death rates from heart disease in the world. One of the reasons is the high level of medicine in the country.

The Teknon Institute of Cardiology has 7 highly specialized departments:

• Cardiology;
• Cardiothoracic surgery;
• Vascular and endovascular surgery;
• Heart diagnostics;
• Hemodynamic and Interventional Cardiology;
• Electrophysiology;
• Vascular Radiology.

To diagnose diseases, the heart is not catheterized, but 3D ultrasound and a virtual angiography are used. In hybrid operating rooms, operations are performed under the control of ultrasound, CT and MRI. The team consists of 24 doctors: cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, arrhythmologists, electrophysiologists, radiologists, angiologists and phlebologists.

The Institute specializes in the treatment of:

• Heart attack;
• Ischemic heart disease;
• Heart and valve defects;
• Aneurysms;
• Malformations;
• Thrombosis and varicose veins.

Teknon ensures that the result meets the expectancy of each person. For this, an expert in aesthetic body surgery, vice-president of the Spanish Society of Plastic Surgery, Vicente Paloma, works here. The doctor has been operating since 1987.
The second famous plastic surgeon is Javier Herrero, an expert in facial surgery since 1980. These are the best plastic surgeons in Spain according to Forbes. Every third of their operations is the reconstruction of unsuccessful interventions of foreign colleagues.

Teknon developed and first applied the ALMA 3D computer program for calculating the result of plastic surgery. Using the patient’s images, the doctor creates a virtual model. A guiding frame is printed on a 3D printer, which is put on the patient. This framework shows the doctor where and how much tissue to remove in order to achieve the desired result.

Dr. Frederico Alfaro is a popular oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Europe. The doctor moves the patient’s bone tissue in case of malocclusion, installs dental implants and reconstructs the facial skull using 3D printing technologies. The doctor has helped 4 000 individuals regain their attractive appearance after accidents, injuries or surgeries to remove tumors in the head area.

Hand and foot surgery

Dr. Joaquim Casanias is known for operations on hand reconstruction, transplantation of limbs, fingers, blood vessels and nerves. The doctor helps patients with plexitis, shoulder pain, numbness or paralysis of the peripheral nerves of the arms and legs.

Endoprosthetics

In 2007, Dr. Raphael Wagner performed the first computer-assisted hip replacement in Spain. For the first time in the world, such an operation was carried out in 2004. That is why Dr. Wagner is the most experienced specialist in low-trauma joint replacement in Europe.

Non-surgical treatment of pain in joints and spine

Traumatologist-rheumatologist Robert Rich is the head of the Institute for Regenerative Tissue Therapy at Teknon Hospital. More than 700 individuals have gotten rid of joint and spinal problems thanks to innovative therapy.

Epilepsy Institute Dr. Antonio Russi

Dr. Russi is the № 1 epileptologist in Spain according to Forbes. Organizer of the 5th and 6th European Epilepsy Congresses and co-chairman of the 32nd International Congress. Dr. Russi researches experimental drugs for epilepsy, uses pharmacogenetic tests to select the right treatment, diagnoses rare genetic epileptiform syndromes. Such diseases require a specific approach to treatment.

Department of Clinical Neurophysiology and Sleep Medicine

Dr. Javier Albares is a well-known somnologist in Europe, head of the Teknon Sleep Physiology Department. The doctor specializes in the treatment of insomnia, somnambulism, sleep apnea syndrome and other pathologies. The department conducts electroencephalography and polysomnography, deciphers the research results. This is important for the correct diagnosis of endocrine and heart diseases.

Department of Parkinson’s and Neurological Movement Disorders

The department employs 8 neurologists and neurophysiologists who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease, Tourette’s syndrome, torsion dystonia and other coordination and gait disorders.

Teknon offers 21 specializations for children, including: genetics, hematology, nephrology, dermatology, pain therapy and other areas. The Department of Pediatric Intensive Care has made Teknon an obstetric clinic of the highest level, therefore, births of any complexity are accepted here.

Thanks to a team of experienced doctors, attentive staff and comfortable birthing wards, Teknon is popular with the wives of politicians, athletes and show business stars.