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Disease category Eligibility for referral to the Hong Kong Children's Hospital
(Age: 18 years or below)
Epilepsy and seizure disorders Our clinic provides comprehensive assessment and care for children with uncommon, refractory or complex seizure disorders.
  • Seizure disorder with diagnostic challenge
  • Epilepsy or seizure disorders
  • Management of refractory epilepsy (failure of sustained seizure control despite adequate trials of two or more appropriately selected, titrated and tolerated anti-seizure medications)
  • Cases that warrant further workup of underlying etiologies (particularly in the presence of progressive cognitive or motor decline / regression of developmental milestones)
  • Epileptic disorder which is potentially amendable by surgery (e.g. stereotypic lateralized seizure)
  • Selected patients suitable for further drug trial or trial of new therapy, non-pharmacological treatment options such as dietary treatment or other surgical intervention (e.g. vagal nerve stimulation)
Neurometabolic / neurodegenerative diseases / movement disorders Our neurometabolic clinic provides comprehensive assessment and care for children with suspected or confirmed neurometabolic, neurodegenerative and movement disorders, and for recruitment to clinical trials or clinical studies if available.
    Suspected neurometabolic / neurodegenerative diseases with unexplained -
  • encephalopathy
  • epilepsy especially intractable seizures
  • leukodystrophies
  • movement disorders
  • multisystem involvement affecting various organs (e.g. liver, heart)
  • neurological regression (motor, cognitive, sensory)
  • rhabdomyolysis
  • spasticity
  • strokes or stroke-like episodes
Confirmed neurometabolic / neurodegenerative diseases with management difficulties that do not require strict dietary management except ketogenic / high fat diet
Neuromuscular disorders The neuromuscular disorder clinic provides comprehensive assessment and care for children with rare and common neuromuscular diseases with diagnostic challenge or requiring specialised treatments, and for recruitment to clinical trials or clinical studies.
  • Congenital myopathy
  • Congenital myasthenic syndromes
  • Congenital muscular dystrophy
  • Limb girdle muscular dystrophy
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • Becker muscular dystrophy
  • Facioscapulohumoral muscular dystrophy
  • 5q spinal muscular atrophy
  • Non-5q spinal muscular atrophy
  • Myotonic dystrophy
  • Myasthenia gravis
  • Myotonic disorders
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth diseases
  • Other rare neuromuscular disorders
In our neuromuscular disorder clinic, we work closely with the multidisciplinary teams to provide comprehensive management plan and tie research studies, aiming to advance and provide better care for children and their families.
Neurocutaneous Disorders Our neurocutaneous neurology clinic provides comprehensive assessment and disease specific treatment for children with suspected or confirmed neurocutaneous disorders, and for recruitment to clinical trials or clinical studies if available. It runs as parallel session on the same day as the neurocutaneous oncology clinic to save patients’ travelling time for repeated hospital visits.
  • Neurofibromatosis Type I
  • Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Autoimmune neurological disorders Our neurology clinic provides comprehensive assessment, diagnostic evaluation and arrangement of disease-specific treatments for children with suspected autoimmune neurological disorders.

For inter-hospital referral of patients with confirmed autoimmune neurological disorders for further disease-specific treatments, especially those requiring plasma exchange (e.g. auto-immune encephalitis, transverse myelitis, Guillain Barre Syndrome), our neurology team will provide comprehensive joint care with the PICU team.

Referral Pathway

  • Outpatient referrals can be submitted to the HKCH Specialist Outpatient Clinic by the patient via HA Go app, email (hkchsopcbooking@ha.org.hk), or fax (3512 7579).
  • For special conditions or direct communication, please contact the neurology team on-call doctor during office hours through the hospital operator (tel: 3513 3888).