MEDICAL SCREENING
A medical screening is a screening of your global health status by specialists.
We get the picture per patient of your living habits and cardiovascular risk factors (such as high blood pressure, diabetes, obesitas, high cholesterol, smoking, family history) as well as an image of oncologic (cancer) history in your family.
Based on these information, we could advise after the general check-up to perform additional examinations such as CT scan of the coronary arteries to exclude/confirm coronary narrowing, or a full coloscopy (bowel exam by videoscopy). We don’t do complete body scans, which is an expensive and possibly harmful (radiation) tool, without any proven additional value.
What does this mean?
Our strength is the one stop shop. Within one appointment u see a team of medical specialists and undergo a battery of medical-technical investigations. Our team contains medical specialists in cardiology, gynecology, surgery, gastro-enterology, neurology, ENT, and urology.
The investigations we do are blood and urine examination, ECG, effort cardiac testing, echocardio (ultrasound of the heart), echo abdomen, coloscopy, duplex echo doppler of the vessels, echo of the prostate, gynecological echo, mammography and echo of the breasts, bone densitometry (looking after osteoporosis), audiometry (hearing tests), eye pressure measurement.
The most common medical pathology at your age and gender, can be detected on time : like heart and vessel diseases, diabetes, high cholesterol, colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer and other gynecologic cancers.
After the screening our medical chief gives you a debriefing and within a week u get all results via email, including full medical report and personal advice, lab results and possible reference to other exams in hospital.
You have to be sober 3 hours before your appointment.
Investigations we perform are the following:
– Does the pump function is normal?
– Are the chambers of the heart dilated, duet o high blood pressure or other diseases?
– What about the valves, do they leak, are they calcified?
– Is there an overpressure on the lungs?
– Are there any genetical conditions?
FOR WHO?
Private patients
You can get reimbursement by your health insurance for the biggest part
Companies
We perform tailor-made screenings for companies with a content and a price that is discussed in advance. Also insurance companies rely on our services.
WHERE?
The Doktershuis is situated at the Mechelsesteenweg 199, 2018 Antwerp. We have a private parking, you can open the gate yourself by dialing a phone number. Several trams and busses have a stop right at our doorstep.
BY WHO?
Our team consists of specialists in cardiology, vascular surgery, gynecology, neurology, oto-rhino-laryngology, gastroenterology, urology, otrhope and a number of paramedics such as a midwife.