Neurosurgery

Mercy Neurosurgery is dedicated to providing patients with access to highly-specialized care close to home. The neurosurgeons at Mercy bring a unique and personal approach to treating patients. They offer innovative and effective treatments with patient-centered, coordinated care.

Neurosurgery Referral Form

Mercy Neurosurgery is proud to call itself the most comprehensive neurosurgery clinic in central Iowa. Mercy is proud to have:

• Central Iowa's first fellowship-trained pediatric neurosurgeon, providing access to highly-specialized care for central Iowa’s smallest patients.
• The expertise of a the area's only vascular neurosurgeon, offering a minimally invasive approach to treating vascular disorders, such as aneurysms.
• Central Iowa's only deep brain stimulation program, under the leadership of a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon. DBS is shown to greatly increase the qualities of life for patients with movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, dystonia and OCD.
• Area's leaders in minimally-invasive spine surgery, and complex spine and spinal deformity cases.

Conditions & Treatments

Adults - Spine

Conditions Treated

• Degenerative Disc Disease
• Herniated Cervical Disc
• Herniated Lumbar Disc
• Sciatica
• Spinal Fractures
• Spinal Stenosis
• Spondylosysis & Spondylolisthesis

Services & Treatments

• Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF)
• Braces and Orthotics
• Cervical Artificial Discs
• Lumbar Spinal Fusion (Minimally invasive and open)
  • Anterior
  • Posterior
  • Lateral
• Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
• Posterior Lumbar Discectomy
• Spinal Cord Stimulation
• Spinal Decompression: Laminectomy & Laminotomy
• Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty

Adults - Brain

Conditions Treated

• Acoustic Neuroma
• Aneurysm Ruptured
• Aneurysm Unruptured
• Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)
• Brain Tumors
  • Glioma Brain Tumors
  • Meningiomas
  • Metastatic Brain Tumors
  • Pituitary Tumors
• Carotid Stenosis
• Chiari I Malformation
• Concussion
• Epilepsy
• Hemifacial Spasm
• Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH)
• Intracranial Artery Stenosis
• Moyamoya Disease
• Parkinson's Disease
• Seizures
• Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
• Stroke
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Trigeminal Neuralgia

Services & Treatments

• Suboccipital Craniotomy
  • Acoustic Neuroma
  • Chiari I Malformation
• Aneurysm Clipping
• Aneurysm Coiling
• Cerebral Bypass Surgery
• Craniotomy
• Endoscopic Transsphenoidal Surgery
• Epilepsy Surgery
• Microvascular Decompression (MVD)
• Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders
• Percutaneous Stereotactic Radiofrequency Rhizotomy (PSR)
• Radiosurgery & Radiotherapy of the Brain

Children

Conditions & Services

• Craniofacial Disorders
• Craniosynostosis
• Plagiocephaly
• Macrocephaly
• Hydrocephalus
• Chiari Malformations
• Spinal Dysraphism
  • Spina Bifida
  • Syringomyelia
  • Tethered Spinal Cord
• Brain and Spinal Traumas
• Brian and Spinal Tumors
• Vascular Malformations
  • Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)
  • Cavernous Malformations
• Seizures
  • VNS
  • Temporal Lobectomies
  • Tumors
• Spinal Disorders
  • Disc Herniation’s
• CranioCervical Instability