Medical Blog About Treatment Abroad

Germany has one of the highest level of medical services in Europe and the world. Such acclaim is possible thanks to generous state funding, which allocates more than 300 billion euros into the healthcare system annually. This allows for new methods of diagnosis and treatment of various diseases to be developed and applied here.

Medical tourism is one of the fastest growing industries and appeals to people who are serious about their health. Patients all over the world look for better treatment in other countries, sometimes combining a thorough healthcare service and a nice vacation. Germany, Switzerland, >Austria, Israel, the USA, and Canada are the leaders...

According to the World Cancer Research Fund, kidney cancer was ranked 9th among the most common oncological pathologies in the world in 2018. Most tumors develop from the renal tubules, which actively filter up to 2000 liters of blood per day. As a result, kidney cancer is mostly diagnosed at an early stage, before metastasizing.

Surgical reconstruction, or mitral valve replacement, is the second most common surgery on the heart valves. In European countries with developed medicine...

Coronary artery disease (CAD), or coronary heart disease, is an extremely widespread condition in the modern world, when the excessive amount of LDL cholesterol in the blood stream damages coronary vessels and causes hypoxia and death of the heart muscle (myocardium). The problem is that at early stages...

Herniated disc or hernia of the intervertebral disk aggravates a nerve and triggers lower back pain or affects the neck area. Both sensitive and motor spinal nerve roots are compressed and result in impaired movement. Sometimes, the pathology might provoke internal organs, which can result...

Generally people prefer to receive healthcare services at their place of residence due the convenience and low costs. However, many people choose to get treatment abroad. This phenomenon is called medical tourism. Its prevalence in the world is increasing every year. More and more patients are becoming interested, for one reason...

For a long time, it was believed that varicose veins could only be corrected by removing large superficial veins and ligating the perforating veins. When CHIVA was introduced in 1988, many surgeons met it with hostility. The method was not widely used because it contradicted the basic concepts of varicose vein treatment.