명주병원

Cardiology

Cardiology diagnoses and treats heart and blood vessel-related diseases intensively. The heart consists of the heart that pumps blood, the most important means to supply oxygen and nutrients to the whole body, and blood vessels to deliver blood from the heart to the whole body.

It diagnoses and treats diseases related to the heart and major blood vessels including coronary artery disease, heart failure, heart valve disease, hypertension, valve disease, arrhythmia, pulmonary artery, hyperlipidemia, and peripheral vascular diseases. As circulatory patients increase rapidly and account for a high proportion of adult mortality, we are trying to guard the lifeline of patients through professional treatment based on advanced facilities and advanced technology.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Coronary artery disease (angina, myocardial infarction) / interventional therapy / hypertension / heart failure / hyperlipidemia / heart valve disease / arteriosclerosis and peripheral vascular disease / arrhythmia / adult congenital heart disease

Cardiovascular surgery

Cardiovascular surgery is a field responsible for surgery of the heart, lung, blood vessels, and esophagus, which are the most important organs of the human body. It treats diseases such as heart and aorta, upper and lower limb venous & venous diseases, pulmonary diseases, pleural diseases, esophageal diseases, bronchial diseases, mediastinal diseases, chest wall, and pneumothorax.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Adult heart surgery / vascular-related acute and chronic complications (blocking) / abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection / arteriosclerosis and diabetic foot / hemodialysis / varicose vein and lower extremity edema / cardiac arrhythmia thrombus / dialysis catheter and peripheral central vein cannula

Cerebrovascular surgery

Cerebrovascular surgery conducts examination, diagnosis, and treatment for cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke, cerebral infarction, and cerebral hemorrhage. The Hybrid Surgery Center of Myeongju Hospital equipped with state-of-the-art angiography equipment, provides a comprehensive service that includes not only treatment and prevention, but also rehabilitation services to allow patients to live a normal life without disability even after discharge.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Stroke, cerebral aneurysm, headache, dizziness, head and nervous system trauma, cerebrovascular stenosis, dementia, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, central nervous system infection, encephalopathy, peripheral nerve disease, neurodegenerative disease, depression and anxiety disorder, cognitive disorder, mood disorder, and central nervous system rehabilitation

Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery conducts subdivided treatments such as cerebrovascular diseases, brain tumors, and spinal diseases, and does its best for medical care on the basis of abundant clinical experiences using advance medical equipment, diagnosing and treating possible trauma, tumors, cerebrovascular diseases, dysfunction, and congenital diseases in the brain.

Depending on the type of disease and treatment method, it is subdivided into sub-departments on cerebral infarction, brain tumor, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral aneurysm, and cerebral arteriovenous malformation, and provides precise diagnosis and surgical treatment for neurological diseases.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Cerebrovascular diseases Cerebral aneurysm, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, carotid artery stenosis, moyamoya disease, cerebral arteriovenous malformation, dura mater arteriovenous fistula, dizziness, dementia, and Parkison's disease

Spinal diseases Degenerative disc, disc herniation, spinal stenosis, vertebral compression fracture, posterior longitudinal ligament ossification, spondylolisthesis, scoliosis, vertebral tumor, turtle neck syndrome, internal derangement of disc, ankylosing spondylitis, cervical spondylosis, and kyphosis

Neurology

Neurology diagnoses and treats diseases related to the nervous system, which consists of central and peripheral nerves. It treats stroke, dementia, headache, dizziness, Parkinson's disease, neural pain, degenerative nervous system diseases, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, hypertension brain disease, and diabetic neurological diseases. If you have symptoms such as headache, dizziness, paralysis or sensory abnormalities in your limbs, numbness, pronunciation or speech impairment, memory loss, walking disorder, convulsions, consciousness degradation, fainting, sleep disorders, hand tremors, or abnormal exercise of your limbs, you need neurological treatment.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Stroke (cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction), dementia, headache, sleep disease (insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome, REM sleep behavior disorder), nervous system infection, dizziness, epileptic fit (epilepsy), abnormal motor disease, Parkinson's disease, facial nerve paralysis, sleep disorder, epilepsy, and encephalopathy, etc

Orthopedics

The pillar of human body is the skeleton. It is a medical department that builds and breathes the pillars of our body, including the muscles surrounding this skeleton, the ligaments connecting them, blood vessels and nerves allowing us to breathe, and performs diagnoses, treatments, and surgery on damages form diseases and trauma in the bones, ligaments, joints, and muscles. It operates a human motion analysis room, blood flow examination room, ligament examination room, foot epidemiology examination room, and bone bank for orthopedic treatment, and allows intensive and efficient treatment via special clinics and centers for each major field (knee joint, spine, hand, wrist, elbow disease and peripheral nerve disease, shoulder joint, hip, trauma, and musculoskeletal tumor center).

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Artificial joint surgery, arthroscopic surgery, arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetic foot complications, sports damage, trauma, knee joint disease, shoulder joint disease, ankle and foot disease, wrist and elbow disease, hip joint disease, arthritis, fracture, dislocation, and sprain, etc

Spinal surgery

Spinal surgery is a specialized field that treats diseases of the central nervous system governing and controlling our body, which treats diseases that occur in the spine that support the spinal cord and spinal cord. As the nervous system is made up of extremely detailed and complex structures in our body, it requires high expertise and mobilizes state-of-the-art equipment. It treats lumbar and cervical discs, fractures, vertebral malformation, osteomyelitis, and spinal cord and spinal tumors.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Back pain / cervical pain / disc disease / stenosis / spinal cord tumor / spinal cord injury / spinal fracture / nerve block / spinal stenosis / spondylolisthesis / spinal deformity correction (scoliosis, and kyphosis)

Occupational environment medicine

Its primary purpose is to diagnose and improve health of workers, and it also contributes to diagnosis, investigation and management of environmental diseases in the general population by non-professional exposure. It treats various diseases such as musculoskeletal diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, lung diseases, and cancer, which may be developed in workers related to their work performance.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Special examination / smoking cessation clinic / occupational disease / environmental disease

Family medicine

Family medicine provides medical care that identifies and solves health problems primarily, regardless of age, gender, or disease. We serve as the family doctor by providing comprehensive and continuous medical treatment not only for patients but also for health of the entire family and background of the family. Family medicine is also in charge of health promotion, including interventions on lifestyle such as smoking cessation, temperance, nutrition, exercise, obesity, and stress control, infection prevention via vaccination, prevention and management of chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes through regular checkups, and early detection of cancer through early cancer screening. It conducts comprehensive medical care harmonizing all medical fields including preventive checkup, health promotion, and patient education as well as treatment of acute diseases and management of chronic diseases.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Health promotion medicine (geriatric disease, adult disease, menopause, obesity, traveler's health, stress management, and anti-aging)

Lifetime health care, adult vaccination clinic, smoking cessation clinic, family counseling, and clinical nutrition

Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology is a medical department that is in charge of diagnosing and treating various diseases in the digestive tract (esophaus-stomach-small intestine-colon-rectum) and abnormalities in the biliary system, including the liver and gallbladder, and pancreas. Its treatment area is divided into gastrointestinal, liver, pancreatic and biliary system fields, and it treats general diseases such as reflux esophageal disease, indigestion, gastritis, digestive ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, hepatitis, cirrhosis, fatty liver, pancreatitis, and cholelithiasis. In the gastrointestinal field, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, colonoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound, capsule endoscopy, and small intestine endoscopy are performed to diagnose esophageal, gastric, intestinal, and colon diseases, in combination with endoscopy for therapeutic purpose, including endoscopic resection for gastric polyps, early gastric cancer, and colon polyps, endoscopic hemostasis for gastrointestinal bleeding, balloon dilatation and stent insertion for gastrointestinal stenosis, and endoscopic percutaneous gastrostomy for enteral nutrition.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Gastritis, gastric ulcer, stomach cancer, alcoholic liver disease, gallstones, irritable bowel syndrome, reflux esophagitis, indigestion, liver cirrhosis, fatty liver, pancreatitis, enteritis, diarrhea, constipation, inflammatory bowel disease, and rectal polyps, etc

Pulmonology

Pulmonology is a branch of internal medicine that treats and studies diseases in bronchus, pulmonary blood vessels, and pleura, which are main organs that make up the respiratory system. It treats lung cancer, infectious diseases such as pneumonia or pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic obstructive lung diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis, interstitial lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary embolism, pneumothorax, and pleural fluid.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Infectious lung diseases such as pneumonia, pulmonary tuberculosis, and nontuberculous mycobacteiral lung disease ∙ Lung cancer ∙ Airway diseases such as COPD and bronchiectasis

Interstitial lung diseases including pulmonary fibrosis ∙ Pulmonary vascular diseases such as pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension ∙ Pleural diseases such as pleural fluid and pneumothorax

Severe diseases requiring respiratory assistance ∙ Diseases accompanied by symptoms such as coughing, sputum, dyspnea, and temoptysis, ∙ Lung transplantation

Intensive care ∙ Sleep apnea ∙ Diseases requiring procedures such as bronchoscopy, lung function test, 6-minute walk test, chest ultrasound, thoracoscopy, and thoracic puncture.

Nephrology-Endocrinology

Nephrology is a field that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of kidney and urinary tract diseases, which treats mainly kidney disease with high prevalence of hematuria/proteinuria, thyroid disease, hyperlipidemia, adrenal disease, pituitary disease, parathyroid disease and other endocrine diseases as well as chronic renal failure, acute renal failure, urinary tract infection, and diabetes, which are representative diseases treated by a subdivision of internal medicine diagnosing and treating various diseases from abnormalities of hormones secreted from the endocrine organs.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Arteriosclerosis / angina / myocardial infarction / mitral valve stenosis / arrhythmia / arterial obstruction / dilated cardiomyopathy / myocarditis / hyperlipidemia

Emergency medicine

It is a medical field focused on diagnosis and treatment of acute diseases or injuries that require immediate medical attention. It plays a role to increase the effectiveness of subsequent treatment or surgery by diagnosing and stabilizing emergency patients across all clinical fields in the shortest time, instead of long-term treatment or management of them. Emergency medicine specialists reside 24 hours a day to provide efficient and systematic emergency medical care, providing rapid medical treatment to patients with various diseases in the internal and surgical fields as well as patients in the emergency medical fields such as CPR, addiction, and trauma. In addition, we are closely cooperating to ensure that patients with severe diseases such as myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular disease, and severe trauma can be quickly treated in connection with the specialized clinical department.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

All diseases and injuries requiring emergency care

Rehabilitation Medicine

Rehabilitation medicine is a medical department that diagnoses and treats spinal and limb dysfunction (paralysis, walking disorders, etc.) and pain caused by various diseases and damage to the brain-spine and limbs. It is classified boradly into pain treatment field of musculoskeletal diseases and rehabilitation field that helps patients with disabilities due to various diseases or accidents to live as close to normal as possible, which is subdivided into three areas: musculoskeletal medicine, medical rehabilitation, and electrical diagnostics. The rehabilitation room has various treatment facilities such as an exercise therapy room, a thermoelectric therapy room, an occupational therapy room, and a swallowing therapy room. Each treatment room provides central nervous system exercise therapy, thermoelectric therapy, occupational therapy, cognitive rehabilitation therapy, and swallowing rehabilitation treatment by professionally trained therapists.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Cervical pain/back pain and upper and lower limb radiating pain due to disk hernia and spinal stenosis, arthritis, rotator cuff tear, frozen shoulder, soft tissue disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and degenerative encephalopathy including Parkinson's disease

Radiology

The department of radiology acquires and diagnoses images through radiation, ultrasound, high frequency, and magnetic fields, which is divided into a general imaging room, ultrasound room, angiography room, a CT (computerized tomography) imaging room, and MRI (magnetic resonance) imaging room. All images are digitalized and their read results are provided to medical departments, outclinics, and wards quickly and accurately via medical image storage and transmission system by full PACS without film output.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Musculoskeletal radiology Image diagnosis and image-induced tissue biopsy of various diseases occurring in joints, muscles, and bones, fine needle aspiration test or percutaneous drainage for musculoskeletal diseases, pain interventions for spinal diseases and joint pain, and high frequency resection of tumors

Abdominal radiology Image diagnosis and image-induced tissue biopsy of diseases occurring in the liver, bile duct, pancreas, stomach, small intestine, colon and abdominal cavity, high-frequency ablation of liver tumors, and HIFU procedure of abdominal tumors

Genitourinary radiology Image diagnosis and tissue biopsy of kidney, bladder, prostate, adrenal gland, ovary, uterus, retroperitoneal cavity disease, non-surgical treatment of hydronephrosis and kidney abscess, and prenatal imaging

Central neuroradiology Image diagnosis of brain, cerebrovascular, spinal, head and neck and thyroid diseases, image induced diagnostic procedure of thyroid and head and neck diseases, and image induced non-surgical treatment of thyroid nodule

Cardiovascular radiology Diagnosis of abnormal findings of heart, coronary artery, aorta, and limb vessels, and diagnosis and evaluation of congenital heart malformation

Intervention radiology Hepatic artery embolization and radiation embolization of liver cancer, arteriovenous aneurysm opening of dialysis patients, intravascular treatment of aorta and lower extremity vascular disease, transcatheter embolization of bleeding patients, thrombolysis of deep vein thrombosis, embolization of vascular malformation, biliary and abscess drainage, and biliary and gastrointestinal stent installation

Chest radiology Chest image diagnosis of lung diseases including lung cancer, pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumonia, diffuse interstitial lung disease, and chronic obstructive lung disease Image-induced biopsy of pulmonary tumors, and non-surgical treatment of pneumothorax, lung abscess, pleural effusion fluids

Anesthesiology

Anesthesiology has abundant clinical experience for safe surgery and pain treatment for patients, and provides the best treatment for various pain diseases such as cancerous pain, spinal pain, and headache, as well as surgical anesthesia. Preoperative evaluation and optimization are performed for outpatients via pre-anesthesia assessment, and postoperative patient care is provided in the recovery and intensive care units, along with general anesthesia, cardiopulmonary anesthesia, transp

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Spinal surgery anesthesia, general surgery anesthesia, chronic pain, acute pain, postoperative pain controll, etc.

Surgery

Surgery is a medical department that performs wide range of treatments such as gastrointestinal tract, colonic anus, hepatic biliary pancreas, breast endocrine, transplantation, blood vessels, and burns, and conducts acute appendicitis surgery (appendectomy) using laparoscope.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Thyroid and breast disease / colon and anus disease / liver, biliary tract and cholelithiasis / varicose veins / digestive disease and laparoscopic surgery

Dermatology and urology

Dermatology and urology is a field that deals with diseases that develop in the urinary system (kidney, ureter, bladder, and urethra), male reproductive organs (testis, epididymis, ejaculatory duct, scrotum, and penis) and accessory sex glands (prostate, seminal vesicle, and bulboruethral gland) and adrenal glands.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Prostate disease / urinary disorders / urinary stones / urinary tumors / skin diseases

Otolaryngology

Otolaryngology is a medical field that diagnoses and treats diseases related to the ears, throat, and nose. It treats recently diversified diseases and diseases rapidly increasing due to air pollution and industrialization such as head and neck cancer, respiratory diseases, and allergic diseases, with the latest equipment.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Otology cochlear implant, hearing aid, hearing loss, dizziness, tinnitus, middle ear inflammation, cranial base tumor, ear tumor, auditory nerve tumor Rhinology chronic sinusitis, rhinitis, sleep apnea, nasal septal deviation, nasal plastic surgery, nasal tumor, endoscopic tumor surgery Head and neck surgery head and neck tumor, thyroid tumor, vocal cord paralysis, airway stenosis, airway obstruction disease, and dysphagia

Pediatrics

Pediatrics deals with various diseases that can occur from pregnancy to adolescence when growth and development are completed. Therefore, it helps maintain normal growth and development in the body, intelligence, emotion, and society as well as simple diagnosis and treatment of diseases. This department of pediatrics of Myeongju Hospital provides outpatient treatment and hospitalization for respiratory diseases such as pneumonia and asthma, gastrointestinal diseases, urinary tract infections, and other infections dependng on their severeness and treats atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis, and hives.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Pediatric infectious disease, pediatric endocrine disease, pediatric digestive disease, pediatric respiratory allergic disease, pediatric arrhythmia, adolescent and adult congenital heart disease, and pediatric heart intervention

Laboratory medicine

Laboratory medicine performs disease diagnosis and discrimination by conducting appropriate tests on various samples (blood, urine, body fluid, etc.) derived from the human body and determination of treatment direction and prognosis judgement by grasping severity and progress. We try for patients to receive appropriate treatment in a timely manner by informing the results of hematological tests, biochemical tests, and immunological tests quickly after blood coleection, using automated system.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Clinical chemistry / diagnostic hematology / clinical microbiology / transfusion medicine / diagnostic immunology

Obstrics and gynecology

Obstetrics and gynecology is a medical department that conducts the latest diagnosis and treatment of various female diseases such as pregnancy, gynecology, benign and malignant gynecolgical disease, infertility and fertility preservation, endocrine diseases, and gynecological and urological disease. The obstetrics and gynecology department of Myeongju Hospital aims to manage women's health throughout their lives, from birth to death.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

It focuses on treatments and researches such as high-risk pregnancy, fetal treatment, gynecological positive and malignant tumors, infertility and fertility preservation treatment, treatment of underage female diseases and menopause management, diagnosis and treatment of urinary incontinence and pelvic organ escape.

Dental clinic

The dental clinic of Myeongju Hospital aims to treat various diseases related to teeth, gums, face and jaw and improve oral health and quality of life. It diagnose teeth and bone conditions presisely via low-dose three-dimensional digital CT, digital panorama, and X-ray accurately and can provide appropriate treatment to patients by promoting bone formation and gum regeneration with autobgeneous blood derived substances and autogeneous bone, even if implant is difficult due to lack of jaw bones. In order to reduce the difficult and uncomfortable patterning process, it provides fast, precise and comfortable care by using digital scanners and computer equipment.

Major specialized diagnosis and treatment

Implant / aesthetic treatment / general prosthetic treatment / periodontal treatment