Health and Prevention Packages

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The various economic problems plaguing the citizens of our island and the island itself pushed us to create some competitive packages named “Health and Prevention” which have attractive prices and relate to a series of tests of various specialties. Taking into consideration that prevention is the best cure, ARETAEIO Hospital has advanced the preparation of the following packages, through which each person can purchase according to their needs and requirements:

  • Women check up: This package includes the standard blood test a woman should make. It shows iron, ferritin and THS (thyroid).
  • Men check up: This package includes the main blood test a man should make. It also includes PSA and FREE PSA test which is a test for prostate cancer.
  • Immigration Test: This package includes analysis that is required from immigrants for residence permit and work in Cyprus.
  • Athletes Health Statement: This package is usually requested from CSO by athletes enrolled in associations.
  • Pregnancy Panel: This package includes all necessary analysis for the mother and the embryo at the beginning of her pregnancy.
  • General check up: This package includes all the standard blood test for general examination. It’s recommended to be done annually.
  • General check up B
  • Prostate examination
  • Liver Enzymes
  • Cardio check up 1: An examination prescribed by cardiologists. Clinical examination and cardiogram.
  • Cardio check up 2: An examination prescribed by cardiologists and shows heart function. Clinical examination, cardiogram and stress test.
  • Women check up 1: This package includes mammography and DEXA
  • Women check up 2: This package includes mammography, DEXA and breast ultrasound.  Is usually made once a year for women over 40 (not always – depends on risk).
  • Women check up 3: This package includes mammography, DEXA and chest X-ray usually made for women which smoke (not always – depends on risk). Recommended once a year.
  • Women check up 4: This package is a combination of the above three packages. It includes mammography, DEXA, chest X-ray and breast ultrasound. Is usually made once a year for women over 40 (not always – depends on risk).
  • Women check up 5: This package should be done by all women above 40 (not always – depends on risk).
  • Bone Densitometry Examination: Examination which in mainly aimed at women over 45 years usually after menopause.

Each examination depending on the package takes place at ARETAEIO Hospital by experienced medical and paramedical staff with full high-tech equipment.

Anyone interested to receive the relevant package from “Health and Prevention” set can contact Ms. Sophia Theophilou.

Phone Number: 77776900

Email: s.theophilou@aretaeio.com.

Clinical Neurosciences Department

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The Skull Base team, part of the department of Clinical Neurological Services at Aretaeio Hospital consists not only of doctors within Aretaeio Hospital (Dr Vakis Papanastassiou Neurosurgeon, Dr Eddy Hadjihannas ENT surgeon, Dr Nikiforos Kranidiotis Plastic surgeon, Dr Stelia Kadis Endocrinologist) but also associates and collaborators from both Cyprus (Dr Yiannis Kyprianou Ophthalmic and Orbital Surgeon, Dr Panagiotis Economides Endocrinologist) and abroad (Dr Michael Powell, Neurosurgeon, UK, Dr Christos Georgalas, ENT surgeon specializing in endoscopic skull base approaches, Netherlands).

The skull base is an area where a number of different surgical and medical disciplines (Neurosurgery, ENT, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Endocrinology) need to co-operate for optimum patient care. It deals with tumours and other conditions affecting the brain, meninges, pituitary gland, paranasal sinuses and orbits.

In the first week of May, the Skull Base Team joined by Dr Michael Powell, Neurosurgeon from UK, with sub-specialization in Cushing’s disease.

Together, the team had carried out operations on patients suffering from Cushing’s disease and acromegaly at Aretaeio Hospital. In addition Dr Michael Powell took time to meet with some of his old patients in Cyprus and delivered a lecture to the MRCA (Medical Royal Colleges Association in Cyprus).

In the third week in May, our associate Dr Christos Giorgallas (Director of the Endoscopic Skull Base Center in Amsterdam) once again returned to Cyprus to work with the team on another series of endoscopic trans-sphenoidal skull base operations.

Outline for Pediatric and Adult congenital heart Disease program

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The number of infants born with congenital heart diseases and survive past their post-natal period continues to increase world-wide, making patients with congenital heart diseases one of the fastest growing populations in the field of medicine. In accordance with this trend, the demand for experts in the fields of pediatric and adult congenital heart disease constantly grows. Adult congenital heart disease is now an established, board certified Cardiology sub-specialty in the United States as well as in many countries in Europe and Canada. Caring for infants, children, and adults with congenital heart diseases requires vast knowledge and skills, including deep and thorough understanding of the anatomy, pathophysiology and hemodynamic states of the various cardiac defects, as well as the technical abilities to address them in the catheterization laboratory.

Given these considerations, <strong>the Aretaeio Hospital in collaboration with Cardioheal, an Israeli cardiovascular professional group, </strong>have taken upon establishing a comprehensive program for the evaluation and treatment of pediatric and adult individuals with congenital heart diseases.   Sagi Assa, M.D. and Yonatan Buber, M.D., both experts in the field of congenital heart diseases, were selected to assist in this mission in close collaboration with Aretaeio physicians, Georgios P. Georghiou, M.D (Cardiac Surgeon-Coordinator), Themis Komodromos, M.D (Interventional Cardiologist), and George Kanellopoulos, M.D (Cardiac Surgeon). Currently based in Israel, Drs Assa and Buber underwent extensive training: Dr. Assa was trained at the Deutche Herzzentrum in Berlin in the field of congenital heart disease interventions and is one of the leading Cardiologists at “Save a Child’s Heart”, an international program in which pediatric patients from under-served areas of the world arrive in Israel to receive extensive treatment for their cardiac diseases. Dr. Buber was trained at Boston Children’s Hospital and Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the fields of congenital heart disease and intervention, and served as an instructor at Harvard medical school and the Ohio state medical school. Doctors Assa and Buber currently care for hundreds of patients with a wide spectrum of congenital heart conditions- from simple shunt lesions to complex single ventricle physiologies.

The first two interventional procedures for adults with complex congenital heart diseases were undertaken at the Aretaeio Heart center. These consisted of percutaneous closure of a very large and tortuous patent ductus arteriosus and stent implantation in a native aortic coarctation. The procedures were carried out by Dr. Themis Komodromos, Dr. Georgios P. Georghiou and Dr. George Kanellopoulos with the help and guidance of Dr. Assa and Dr. Buber. Both patients were discharged home on the following day on excellent condition.