SANTA CREU I SANT PAU HOSPITAL – BARCELONA

The Hospital of the Santa Creu I Sant Pau (HSCSP) was founded in 1401; It is a private non-profit Foundation. The HSCSP is a center of high complexity focused in the health care of the Barcelona city center, but extends its action and influence through all Catalonia and the rest of Spain and has remarkable international outreach.

The Unit of Neuromuscular Diseases of HSCSP was set up in 1992 and provides healthcare to all Neuromuscular Diseases It is organised in multidisciplinary teams with wide experience in the diagnosis, treatment and research. We have developed very specific diagnostic tools and we have the facilities and equipment necessary to perform highly specialized intervention in all NMD, particularly in the following areas:

1. Acquired autoimmune rare diseases from peripheral nerve, neuromuscular junction and muscle (specific immunological test,…)
2. Rare muscle diseases (Muscle MRI, muscle biopsy…)
3. ALS (multidisciplinary approach, genetics,….)
4. Neuromuscular diseases registries (NMD-ES)