An aortic dissection occurs when the vascular wall’s innermost layer tears, due to various reasons. Blood can then get between the layers and push forward until it reaches the normal vessel again.
Accidents, infections or genetic illnesses can cause the vascular wall’s inner layer to tear. The high blood pressure pushes the blood between the layers, where it pushes forward. This can lead to other arteries being blocked, so that some organs aren’t sufficiently supplied with oxygen. This makes an aortic dissection so dangerous. For example a blockage of the large, brain-supplying vessels can cause strokes or even brain death.
Patients suffering from an aortic dissection experience acute and severe pain. If the dissection occurs in the chest, the pain will be mainly behind the sternum or between the shoulder blades; sometimes it might radiate to the left arm or throat and can be mistaken for a heart-attack. Afterwards, there will be symptoms caused by the organs/ body parts affected by the reduced supply. The closer to the heart the dissection occurs (in the ascending aorta); the higher is the risk of a pericardial tamponade and cardiac arrest.
An aortic dissection is a dangerous condition that needs to be treated as an emergency, or at least observed in intensive care, depending on its location. A surgery is not always necessary, in some cases lowering of blood pressure or pain therapy can be sufficient.
Several years of work in academia, medical practice and finally commercialization make it possible to provide an end-to-end process to help users to “find the appropriate medical help based on their present symptoms”. Below you will find a short explanation, showing you which part of the platform will help you best in finding the appropriate medical support.
Proceed as follows to enter your current symptoms.
Click on the appropriate body part on the picture. Select one/multiple symptoms corresponding to your complaint.
You can also add symptoms by typing your medical complaint in the search box and selecting the best matching suggestion.
Note: Your information will be kept anonymously.
Once you have selected all applicable symptoms, click the “analyze disease pattern”-button.
Accordingly, you will get a list of possible diseases and matching doctor categories who can further help you.
You can inform yourself about the possible diseases by reading the related information. But you can also return to the previous step and add more symptoms or delete already added ones to further narrow down your disease pattern.
Click on the desired doctor category to find a doctor who can help you.
If you are logged in with your profile, you will be displayed the appropriate doctors in your area. Otherwise you can enter an address in the “address” field and you will be displayed a doctor’s list around that specified address.
You will receive further information about the displayed doctors when you press on “details”.
Online bookable doctors in your area will be indicated with the notation “Book appointment” or “Book externally”, additionally they will be displayed on top of the list for your convenience.
Click on “Book appointment” to start the online appointment booking process with the desired doctor.
Please select an available appointment. “Green“ appointments are booked directly. “Red“ appointments need to be confirmed by the doctor.
Enter your general personal and health information.
Enter your present medical symptoms.
Enter your mobile phone number to identify yourself and you can finalize the appointment booking.
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