Angel J. Cadena-Tejada, MD
UConn Health welcomes Dr. Angel J. Cadena-Tejada, a board-certified vascular neurologist and neurocritical care specialist dedicated to providing comprehensive care for patients with stroke and severe neurological conditions.
Dr. Cadena-Tejada is seeing patients in Farmington.
Special Interests
- Acute ischemic stroke
- Hemorrhagic stroke (intracerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage)
- Neurocritical care
- Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Seizures and status epilepticus
- Brain swelling and elevated intracranial pressure
- Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury after cardiac arrest
- Acute neuromuscular respiratory failure (including myasthenia gravis and Guillain-Barré syndrome)
- Spinal cord injury and spinal cord emergencies
- Central nervous system infections (meningitis and encephalitis)
- Multisystem critical care
- Perioperative care of critically ill surgical patients
Education
- Medical School: Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE)
- Residency: Medical University of South Carolina
