UCT Neurovascular Practice

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Neurovascular Practice

Our neurosurgeons are super-specialists who are members of the University of Cape Town and consultants at Groote Schuur Hospital in the Department of Neurosurgery. Additionally, they are members of the Society of Neurosurgeons of South Africa (SNSA), Radiology Society of South Africa (RSSA) and the South African Neurointerventional Society (SANIS).  This academic background has set a priority for the pursuit of research and evidence-based practice, which has resulted in international recognition and positions of leadership.

UCT Neurovascular Practice consults and manages an array of complex (and straight forward) pathology. We are readily available to provide expert advice or a second opinion in our relevant areas of interest.  In providing holistic patient care, UCT Neurovascular Practice partners closely with Interventional Radiologists, ENT specialists, Ophthalmologists, ICU Intensivists, Endocrinologists, Physicians, Anaesthetists, Radiation-oncologists, Neurophysiologists and Allied Health professionals.

UCT Neurovascular Practice is contracted out to various medical aids for surgical and interventional procedures. We strive towards excellence and compassion and aim to partner with patients and their families in their time of need.

Doctors at the UCT Neurovascular Practice

Professor Allan Taylor

Professor David Le Feuvre

Dr Byron De John

Services offered

    • Endovascular treatment of cerebral aneurysms
    • Endovascular embolisation of cerebral and spinal arteriovenous malformations
    • Endovascular embolisation of spinal and intracranial dural arteriovenous malformations
    • Thrombectomy for acute stroke
    • Middle meningeal artery embolization (chronic subdural haematoma)
    • Endovascular intervention for epistaxis as well as head and neck haemorrhage
    • Endovascular cerebral and spinal diagnostic procedures
    • Trigeminal Neuralgia treatment – Glycerol Rhizolysis
    • Open neurovascular cerebral and spinal procedures
    • Endoscopic pituitary surgery
    • Endoscopic trans-orbital surgery
    • Endoscopic and open CSF leak repair – partnering closely with Professor Darlene Lubbe
    • Open and minimally invasive surgery, for the treatment of:

    Skull base and convexity meningioma’s

      • Vestibular schwannoma’s
      • Selected intrinsic and intraventricular tumours
      • Intra and extra-dural spinal tumours including intrinsic spinal cord tumours

      Contact Information:

      Tel Number: 021 442 1800

      Neurosurgeons

      AllanTaylor                                   David LeFeuvre                                Byron DeJohn

      MBBCh, FCS, MMED                   MBChB, FCS, MMED                         MBChB, FCS, MMED

      allan.taylor@uct.ac.za                david.lefeuvre@uct.ac.za               byron.dejohn@uct.ac.za