Elfriede and Josef Holzmüller have already had a little trip. At 6.13 a.m. they rose into the train in Selzthal, Styrian, shortly after 8 a.m. they were at the Central Station Linz. From there they walked to the Hospital of the Merciful Brothers on the Linz Seilerstätstätz. They are both fit.
Now they are there and let Primar Jürgen Falkenammer, head of vascular surgery, examine the stomach with which ultrasound head. “It’s a great thing,” says 88-year-old Mr. Holzmüller, while his wife Elfriede is still on the treatment bed and next to it the inner life of her stomach flickers over the screen in black and white.
It was also she who had read from the pension day in the newspaper. “I called immediately and registered,” says the 82-year-old. That was important to them.
Great interest in the pension day
Like them, it was 64 more important to use the offer. 66 visitors are floated to three parallel stations this day. It takes around 15 minutes, then you have an impression of the state of your own abdominal aorta. The abdominal artery supplies belly organs and legs with oxygen -containing blood, it is the main connection from the heart to the lower part of the body. If it expands pathologically and forms a protrusion, aneurysm is talking about. If she extends too much, there is a risk that it will tear. This, says Primar Falkenammer, leads to death outside of a hospital in 90 percent of all cases. “The affected people reach the hospital
Living and being treated there by an experienced team of doctors, but only survive up to 50 percent, “said the Primar in an interview with the OÖN.
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Image: Volker Weihbold
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