Blood, urine and stool tests in our laboratory

Whether it's a health check, diagnosing an existing illness or monitoring a therapy, the blood gives us extended information about your health status. Depending on the situation, we perform a large or small blood count in the general practitioner's practice in Leimen, can specifically look for inflammation levels, measure blood lipids and blood sugar, check liver or kidney values and investigate questions about hormones, vitamins, trace elements, tumour markers or specific antibodies. If, on the other hand, there are kidney and urinary tract diseases or if diabetes is suspected, a urine test is used. The diagnostic tool of stool examination is available for early diagnosis of colorectal cancer as well as for unexplained bowel symptoms.

long-term ECG

When it comes to heart rhythm disorders, we perform a long-term ECG at the general practice in Leimen. This has the advantage that it shows much more than just a snapshot of a resting ECG. In this way, fluctuations in heart function can be identified and specifically diagnosed. To do this, wear the portable and now very lightweight ECG device over a period of 24 hours. Should it be necessary, the time window can also be extended to 48 or 72 hours. Within time, your heart rhythm is recorded via the ECG electrodes, which are worn on the chest. At the same time, a blood pressure cuff regularly measures your blood pressure. In this way, correlations between heart rhythm and blood pressure can be identified at the same time.

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Pulmonary function test

Pulmonary dysfunction such as asthma, COPD or other respiratory diseases is unfortunately no longer uncommon today. Pulmonary function testing is of essential importance in this context. By focusing on spirometry, you will have a general practitioner check your lung volume, airflow velocity and lung function in Leimen. The measurements provide us with information about possible lung diseases so that we can make a well-founded diagnosis and help us monitor therapies or with regard to sporting ambitions. A lung function test only takes a few minutes. No special preparation is necessary. However, if you do, you should neither smoke a cigarette nor vape an e-cigarette shortly before.

ultrasound scans

So-called ultrasonography has been used for some time as an imaging method to examine internal organs and tissues. A pain-free ultrasound examination is therefore one of the most important medical tools for substantiating or revising diagnoses of various diseases. How does that work exactly? The principle behind this is as simple as it is ingenious: With a transducer, harmless sound waves are directed into the body, where they in turn hit muscles, organs and bones. Depending on the condition and position, these “resistors” then reflect the sound as an echo. Since the transducer is connected directly to a computer, an image is immediately calculated from it, which identifies liquids as black surfaces, white components as solid obstacles and semi-solid structures in various shades of gray. And it is precisely from this image that we can identify deposits, swelling, inflammation, enlarged organs, altered tissue, water retention and much more in general practice. Because we know what ultrasound can really do, we work with the latest technology based on the latest research.