A health check-up in Istanbul, planned with you
A useful check-up is chosen, not copied from a poster. This guide starts from named programmes: 40+ Women, 40+ Men, Prostate Health, Executive, Comprehensive, or Heart and Metabolic.
Estefulya Global helps you choose the programme that fits, gather prior records, introduce you to the hospital team, and stay available after you fly home with the reports. Reading those results, and any diagnosis, sits with your doctor.
Each option below is a different starting point. Read the one that feels closest, then write to us. We help you decide, match the right doctor and facility, and stay with you through the process.
40+ Women
Women's health screening after 40
Women who want a structured look at heart risk, hormones, bone health, and age-appropriate screening in one planned visit.
40+ Men
Men's health screening after 40
Men who want a clear picture of heart risk, metabolic health, and age-related screening rather than waiting for a symptom.
Prostate Health
Prostate-focused screening
Men who want a dedicated look at prostate health, often as part of a wider check-up week.
Executive
Executive check-up
People with limited days who want a focused screen: key labs, imaging, and a physician review.
Comprehensive
Full screening
People who want a wider look: more labs, more imaging, and more specialist reviews in one trip.
Heart & Metabolic
Heart and metabolic screening
People whose main questions are blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, weight change, or family heart disease.
Women's health screening after 40
40+ Women
A women's path built around the questions that become more important after 40, still confirmed by a partner physician.
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Built for the years after 40
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Women's health plus a wider baseline
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Partner physicians confirm the test list
Women who want a structured look at heart risk, hormones, bone health, and age-appropriate screening in one planned visit.
After 40, many women want more than a short blood panel. They want someone to look at energy, cycle change, family history, and the screening that belongs to this decade, without six disconnected appointments at home.
A partner hospital can usually combine laboratory work, selected imaging, and a physician review that may involve internal medicine and women's health. Exact tests are not a menu you pick from a brochure. They are confirmed after history, age, and prior records.
We plan the itinerary, fasting mornings, and the file you take home. Partner physicians own the medical reading. Details of each program are refined with the treating team.
Men's health screening after 40
40+ Men
A men's path that looks at the usual silent risks of this decade, then leaves you with a file your doctor at home can use.
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A baseline for men in midlife
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Heart and metabolic questions are welcome
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You leave with reports, not a slogan
Men who want a clear picture of heart risk, metabolic health, and age-related screening rather than waiting for a symptom.
Many men write to us because they have not had a structured check in years, or because work and travel keep postponing it. After 40, blood pressure, sugar, fats, and family history start to matter more than a single tired week.
The partner team typically starts with internal medicine, a core laboratory panel, and selected heart or imaging studies when the history points there. Prostate conversation can sit inside this path, or we can point you to the dedicated prostate program if that is the main question.
Bring a medicine list and any recent labs. We sequence the days. Partner physicians decide what belongs in the visit.
Prostate-focused screening
Prostate Health
A focused path for prostate questions, planned with a partner urology team rather than as a stand-alone slogan.
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Urology-led when the history calls for it
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Bring prior PSA or clinic letters if you have them
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Medical details are confirmed by the partner team
Men who want a dedicated look at prostate health, often as part of a wider check-up week.
Some men arrive with a family history, a rising PSA from home, or simply the wish to check this properly while they are already in Istanbul. That is a reasonable conversation. It is not a diagnosis in advance.
A partner physician may discuss examination, PSA and related labs, and imaging only when it is useful. We do not sell a fixed prostate package that ignores age, medicines, or last year's numbers.
If you also want a full 40+ or comprehensive week, say so. We would rather combine the calendar honestly than book two overlapping visits.
Shorter stay
Executive
Executive check-up
A typical pattern, not a guaranteed calendar.
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Labs
Fasting may be required. We keep breakfast off the itinerary until the draw is done.
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Imaging
Selected scans, not every machine in the building.
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Review
A physician conversation and a file you take home.
A shorter, tighter screening week for a clear worry list, not a promise to test everything in the building.
People with limited days who want a focused screen: key labs, imaging, and a physician review.
Choose this if you have two or three days and a focused list: heart risk, fatigue, a family history. A partner hospital can often run labs and selected imaging in a same-week pattern. That is a typical rhythm, not a guarantee for every test.
Bring recent reports and a medicine list. Fasting may be required for some blood work. We build the itinerary around those rules so you are not eating breakfast before a fasting draw.
You leave with reports you can take to your doctor at home. Estefulya does not diagnose you. Partner physicians review the results.
Wider screen
Comprehensive
Full screening
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Blood panel
A wider lab set than an executive day.
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Imaging
More studies when the package calls for them.
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Specialist review
More than one conversation if findings need it.
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Written reports
A file you can take to your doctor at home.
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Flexible calendar
Extra appointments can appear. Keep tourist days honest.
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Home follow-up
We help you leave with next steps, not a vague memory.
A wider screening map for a first thorough baseline or a long gap since you last sat with a physician.
People who want a wider look: more labs, more imaging, and more specialist reviews in one trip.
This path suits a first thorough baseline or a long gap since you last saw a physician. Days fill with blood work, imaging, and conversations. You should not stack tourist days as if the calendar were empty.
Some findings create extra appointments. We keep the itinerary flexible enough for that. If a result needs follow-up at home, we help you leave with a clear file, not a vague memory.
Partner hospitals and physicians perform the medicine. We match the program, the hotel near the facility, transfers, and language support.
Heart and metabolic screening
Heart & Metabolic
A path that puts the heart and metabolic picture at the centre of the week, still under partner physician review.
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Heart and metabolic questions first
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Family history is useful context
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The treating team confirms the studies
People whose main questions are blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, weight change, or family heart disease.
If your family history, waistline, or last cholesterol page is what keeps you awake, start here rather than in a generic executive day. The partner team can look at blood pressure, lipids, glucose, and selected heart studies when the history justifies them.
This is screening and conversation, not a promise of a stress-test for every guest. A partner cardiologist or internist decides what is useful after they see you.
Tell us about diabetes medicines, blood thinners, and any recent chest symptoms. Acute chest pain is local emergency care, not a planned check-up week.
What a health check-up is, and how the programs differ
A health check-up is a planned set of tests and conversations that look for risk and for early change. It is not a treatment visit for a problem you have already named, and it is not an emergency room. People book one because they want a current picture of blood work, selected imaging, and a physician's reading of those results.
On this site the path is productised so you can start from a clear door: 40+ Women, 40+ Men, Prostate Health, Executive, Comprehensive, or Heart & Metabolic. Each door still has the same three layers: laboratory work, imaging, and specialist review. Partner hospitals and physicians own those layers. Estefulya Global sequences them so you are not guessing which desk to visit next.
A check-up can find a number that needs a second look, or find nothing urgent and still be useful as next year's comparison. Exact contents of each program are confirmed with partner physicians. The remote conversation before you travel is a personalised preliminary assessment of which path may fit. It is not a diagnosis.
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40+ Women and 40+ Men
The 40+ paths are for people who want more than a short executive morning. They look at the questions that become louder in this decade: energy, family history, hormones, heart risk, and age-appropriate screening. A women's path may involve internal medicine and women's health. A men's path may include a prostate conversation or point you to the dedicated prostate program. Partner physicians confirm what belongs after they see your history.
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Prostate Health, and Heart & Metabolic
Some people have one clear subject. Prostate Health is a urology-led conversation when family history, a prior PSA, or a wish to check this properly is the reason for the week. Heart & Metabolic puts blood pressure, lipids, glucose, and family heart disease at the centre. Neither path is a promise of every possible scan. The treating team still decides.
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Executive and Comprehensive
An executive program is a compressed screening path for people who can give a short block of time, often one full day of tests plus a results conversation later in the same week. A comprehensive program is a wider net: more tests and more specialist time when age, sex, family history, or your questions justify it. More tests are not automatically better. If you already have recent specialist letters, a coordinator may suggest a focused core plus one targeted add-on.
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Labs, imaging, and specialist review
Laboratories measure what is in blood and urine: blood counts, sugar, fats, liver and kidney markers, and often thyroid. Fasting changes several of these readings, which is why the morning before labs is planned, not improvised. Imaging is a picture or a tracing. Specialist review turns the stack into a plan you can use. You take the written reports home, often with a digital copy of the images. Estefulya makes sure you reach the right room and leave with a packet you can show a physician at home.
Who we are in a health check-up journey
For a check-up, Estefulya Global helps you choose the right programme, gather prior records, and introduce you to the hospital team. We plan fasting mornings and the week, then stay available after you fly home with the reports. Diagnosis and the reading of results sit with your doctor.
Our office is in Fulya, Şişli, Istanbul, at Teşvikiye Mah. Hakkı Yeten Cad. No:11 D:51, Fulya Terrace Center 2. This is where we meet you and walk through the plan. The blood draw, imaging, and specialist consult happen at the hospital chosen for your case.
Records, messages, and laboratory files are shared only with Estefulya coordinators and the relevant partner medical specialists who need them for assessment and care coordination. Files are encrypted in transit and stored for that purpose. We do not sell your data. We do not use it for unrelated marketing lists. If a new specialist is added because a finding needs another pair of eyes, your coordinator should tell you why.
Across the platform, not only check-ups, we have coordinated 5,000+ healthcare journeys, with 98% satisfaction reported in our internal follow-up, patients from 80+ countries, and 15+ years of combined healthcare experience on our team. Those figures describe the platform. They do not predict your laboratory numbers or your exact calendar. When we match you, we look at age, known conditions, medicines, family patterns, and how many days you can honestly give the city. We would rather slow a match than push you into a package that does not fit the questions you asked.
Who a coordinated check-up journey is for, and who should wait
People who write to us about screening usually want a clean baseline, a plan that respects family history, or a short week they cannot get from six disconnected appointments at home. Some are relocating, applying for a role that asks for medical papers, or combining a check-up with another Estefulya journey such as dental work or a longevity program. None of those stories automatically qualifies or disqualifies you. They tell us which questions to ask and which partner path to preview.
A coordinated international journey asks more of you than a local blood test. You will fly, stay in a city you may not know, and fast on at least one morning. That can still be a calm week if planning is honest. It is a poor fit if you need emergency care tonight, or if you expect a remote message to replace an in-person exam. Some assays do not finish in a single afternoon.
Who should wait matters as much as who should travel. If you have fever, vomiting, new chest pain, or sudden shortness of breath, you need local urgent care, not a screening itinerary. If you are pregnant or think you might be, say so before anyone books X-ray, CT, or certain contrast studies. If you had contrast recently, or an infection that would distort blood counts, the partner team may ask you to delay. Estefulya does not diagnose you. Educational notes on this page are not a medical opinion about your case. Bring a current medicine list.
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Write your main questions as a short list: heart, energy, family history, women's or men's screening, or a general baseline.
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Tell us about medicines, supplements, allergies, and any contrast or imaging you had in the last year.
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Expect a personalised preliminary assessment of which package or path may fit, not a diagnosis and not a promise of every test you saw online.
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Be ready to wait if acute illness, pregnancy timing, or recent procedures make travel or certain scans unwise.
Process map
10 scenes
Before travel
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After you fly
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First message
You write on WhatsApp or through the short inquiry form on this website. Name, country, a way to reach you, and a few sentences about why you want a check-up are enough to open a file. If you already have a travel week in mind, mention it. A coordinator replies to confirm we understood and to tell you what would help next.
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History and records
If a preliminary review would be useful, the coordinator explains which papers help: recent laboratory printouts, imaging reports, clinic letters, a medicine list with doses, and any allergy or implant notes. Prior records help the partner team see trends and avoid repeating a scan you just completed. Files travel only to coordinators and the relevant partner medical specialists. They are not sold.
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Coordinator review
A coordinator reads your message the way a planner reads a brief. They sort goals, known conditions, medicines, and travel constraints. They flag missing facts rather than guessing. They prepare a clean summary for a partner physician or for the hospital's check-up desk. This is also when we decide whether your case looks like an executive same-week pattern or a comprehensive path.
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Partner physician input for a preliminary assessment
The summary and records go to a relevant partner physician when the file needs that input. That person comments on what the history suggests and which package width might be discussed in person. We turn that input into a personalised preliminary assessment written in ordinary language. It may mention an executive core, a comprehensive spread, or a targeted add-on. You should finish this step knowing more about questions to ask, not believing the results are already decided.
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Questions, options, and next steps
You receive the assessment and a chance to ask follow-up questions. People often ask how many days to stay, whether a companion should travel, and whether they will leave with English summaries. We answer what belongs to coordination. The partner team answers what belongs to medicine. You decide whether to continue toward dates. Nothing in this step books a hospital slot without your agreement.
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Travel dates, hotel, transfers, and interpreter
Once you want to move forward, we work backward from the screening window the partner hospital can offer. You book your own flights in most journeys. We help you choose arrival and departure days that leave room for fasting mornings, imaging slots, and a results conversation. Same-week itineraries are a common pattern for executive paths: land, rest, test, review, fly. They are a planning habit, not a guarantee. Hotel options are usually near the partner facility or along a simple route to Fulya. Airport pickup can be arranged from Istanbul Airport (IST) or Sabiha Gokcen (SAW). Interpreter time at the facility is scheduled as a named part of the itinerary when you need it.
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Arrival and office or facility flow
On arrival, a driver typically meets you at the door you were told to use. You go to the hotel first in many plans so you can wash, eat (unless you landed into a fasting window), and sleep. The next block is often a visit to the Consultation and Coordination Office, a first appointment at the partner hospital, or both. Bring your passport, medicine list, and copies of records you already sent. The office visit is orientation. The hospital visit is registration and clinical work. Those two meetings should not blur into one identity.
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Screening days: what we do and what the partner team does
On screening days we stay with you on the ground: the car, the interpreter if booked, fasting instructions, the order of blood draw versus imaging, and a way for a companion to wait. Hospital staff draw blood, run machines, and bring you to physicians. Your doctor decides whether a planned test should be skipped, delayed, or added. If the team postpones a scan, we rework cars and rooms so the plan still holds.
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Results window in the city
Many simple laboratory lines return the same day or the next morning. Some assays take longer. A results conversation may happen before you fly if the partner team has enough of the file. If a slower test is still pending, you may leave with a partial packet and receive the rest through the coordinator. If a finding needs a same-week extra visit, we rebuild the remaining days.
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Flight home and remote follow-up
When the treating team is comfortable with you flying, we confirm transfer timing to IST or SAW and remind you to keep the report folder in your carry-on. After you land, follow-up continues by message. Typical questions are how to share files with your regular physician and whether a repeated lab was suggested. If something in the report feels alarming and you cannot reach us, local urgent care still comes first.
Planning your visit
Stay length is the question people ask first after they understand who performs the tests. For many executive journeys, coordinators talk about two to four nights so you can rest after the flight, complete a fasting morning, and still sit for a results talk. Comprehensive paths more often use three to six nights, or a same-week spread with two facility days. Those ranges are planning habits, not a guaranteed night count. Extra imaging or a repeat blood draw can add a day.
Fasting is the part that most often surprises travelers. Many lipid and glucose tests ask you to stop calories for about eight to twelve hours. Water is often allowed. Coffee, juice, chewing gum, and vaping can still change a reading. The partner facility writes the rule for your package. We put that rule on the itinerary, including the clock time after which you should not eat. If you take insulin or other diabetes medicines, tell us early so the partner team can say what to do with doses.
Medicines need a written list. Bring original packaging when you can. Do not stop a prescribed medicine because a blog said it would ruin a lab. A partner physician decides what to hold. Name blood thinners, diabetes medicines, contrast allergies, and any implant that matters for MRI before anyone books a magnet room.
Companions are practical. A second adult helps with bags, a long fasting morning, and questions in the review meeting. Some adults travel alone and do well because transfers are already booked. Children should not skip meals because you are fasting. Tell us who is coming so the driver expects the right headcount.
Istanbul has two main international airports. Istanbul Airport (IST) sits on the European side. Sabiha Gokcen (SAW) sits on the Asian side. Transfer time depends on hour, traffic, and which side your hotel is on. We schedule pickup from the airport written on your ticket. The Consultation and Coordination Office keeps weekday hours Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Saturday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and Sunday by appointment only. Coordinators work in English and, depending on who is assigned, Arabic, German, or French.
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Comfortable clothes with sleeves that roll easily for a blood draw.
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Your usual medicines in original packaging, plus a written list of doses.
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Copies of prior labs, imaging reports, and clinic letters.
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Passport, insurance cards if you carry them, and any implant or allergy cards.
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A small snack for after the fasting draw, unless a later test still requires fasting.
What happens after you land
The first hour in Istanbul should feel boring in a good way. A driver meets you, helps with luggage, and takes the mapped route to the hotel. If you land late, we do not drag you to a blood draw. Sleep is part of a usable fasting morning. If you land early and feel clear-headed, a short orientation at the coordination office can happen the same day.
Hotels we suggest are chosen for a quiet room, a breakfast desk that can hold food until after your draw, and a car time that makes sense for the partner hospital. We separate hotel billing from medical billing so you can see which invoice is which.
A typical same-week pattern looks like this, and it remains a pattern, not a promise. Day one: arrive, hotel, optional Fulya orientation, early night. Day two: fasting labs, then imaging once you are allowed to eat, then an internist or the first specialist block. Day three: remaining specialist reviews or a results conversation if enough of the file is ready, then a buffer if something must be repeated. Comprehensive weeks insert another facility half-day instead of forcing every machine into Tuesday. If a slot moves, the coordinator moves the car.
Interpreter support, when booked, is for medical conversations: registration, the exam, and the results talk. The interpreter is not a tour guide. Coordinators also write plans in ordinary language after the visit. If two people heard two versions of a fasting rule, we stop and clarify before the car leaves.
Facility visits follow the partner hospital's rules. You will show identification, meet nursing staff, and sit for the physician. Estefulya staff may wait in a lobby or join an agreed portion of the conversation. We do not stand at the ultrasound table. The last in-person visit before a typical home flight is when travel fitness and the completeness of the packet are discussed. That conversation belongs to the treating team. We then lock the airport run.
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Pickup
A transfer from IST or SAW, timed to your landing.
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Hotel
A stay near the partner facility, not a random listing.
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Interpreter
Language support when the medical conversation needs it.
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Check-ins
Coordinator contact while the partner team delivers care.
Results you should judge as a file you can use
Days
Swelling, scabs, or early change. Not the result.
Weeks
Social comfort starts to return. Photos still lie.
Months
The window used to judge healing and growth.
A check-up result is a packet you can read, keep, and show to a physician. Laboratory tables list each test, your value, and a reference range. Imaging reports are written paragraphs from the radiologist or the specialist who performed the study, sometimes with a disc, USB, or portal link that holds the images. A physician summary, when the partner program includes one, ties those pieces to the conversation you had in the room. Estefulya helps you leave with that stack organized. We do not rewrite the medical meaning.
English summaries are a fair request. Many partner hospitals can issue reports in English. A summary in ordinary language is not a substitute for the original tables. Carry the packet in your hand luggage. If a page is missing when you pack to fly, say so that morning.
Prior records change the quality of the week. An old lipid panel tells a physician whether a number is new or familiar. A prior ultrasound can stop a repeat of the same pictures, or it can show that a finding is stable. If you have nothing at home, you can still travel. The partner team will treat this visit as a baseline. If you have a lot, send the useful middle: last two years of labs, the last imaging report for each body area, and the current medicine list.
Not every line on a report is a crisis. A value just outside a range can be a lab variation, a fasting problem, a medicine effect, or a real change that needs a repeat. Partner physicians decide which story fits. If they want a second draw in Istanbul, we rebuild the remaining hours. Individual results vary.
What you do with the file after you fly is part of the result. Book time with your regular physician if you have one. Keep digital copies in more than one place. If the partner team suggested an interval for the next routine screen, put that interval on a calendar. Coordinators remain available for missing pages, portal logins the hospital issued, and questions about what the itinerary was supposed to include.
Safety, privacy, and responsibilities
Estefulya Global
Navigation and coordination
We help you understand your options, introduce the right independent specialist and facility, plan the journey, and stay with you after you return home.
Your doctor
Diagnosis and treatment
Diagnosis, consent, technique, and medical aftercare belong to your doctor and the treating facility.
Clinical responsibility sits with the partner physicians and the partner hospital. They decide which tests are appropriate after they see you, whether contrast or radiation is justified, how fasting interacts with your medicines, and what you must do if a finding is urgent. Estefulya Global does not write those orders. We make sure you can reach the people who do. If a safety concern appears (fainting after a draw, a contrast reaction, chest pain, a fever), we treat it as urgent coordination: contact the treating team, move a car, delay a flight if they ask.
Every screening path carries some risk. Blood draws can bruise. Fasting can make you light-headed. X-rays and CT use radiation. Contrast can trigger allergy. MRI is unsafe for some implants. Screening is not a substitute for emergency care. If you become acutely unwell in Istanbul, the partner facility's emergency path comes before a coordinator chat.
Privacy is part of safety. Laboratory files and imaging are identifiable medical data. We share them only with coordinators and the relevant partner medical specialists for assessment and care coordination. Transfer is encrypted. We do not sell files. We do not post your results. Tell the truth about pregnancy possibility, medicines, implants, and prior reactions. If someone sounds as if Estefulya will interpret your scan, stop and ask us to restate who does what.
Costs and what a quote can include
There is no honest public price list that fits every check-up. Executive width, comprehensive width, extra cardiac or women's imaging, contrast studies, how many specialist reviews you need, and how many nights you stay in a hotel all move the number. Anyone offering a single figure before history, medicines, and a partner view is guessing. We wait for a personalised preliminary assessment and a partner plan, then we explain the quote in parts you can read.
A coordination quote usually covers matching, itinerary, airport transfers that we arrange, interpreter time if booked through us, and follow-up messaging. The medical quote usually covers the package as the hospital defines it: listed labs, listed imaging, and listed physician reviews. Add-on tests after a finding are typically extra and should be labeled before you agree. The hotel is often a separate invoice. Flights are almost always yours.
Quotes can change if the in-person exam shows that a planned scan is unwise, or if you add a specialty review that was not in the first note. We would rather send an updated breakdown than hide a surprise in a bundle name. Insurance coverage for an international elective check-up is uncommon. If you have a policy you want to try, bring the documents early. We do not promise reimbursement. We share a labelled quote once a partner plan exists.
Pricing follows assessment and the partner plan. We share a labelled quote once that plan exists.
A quote can discuss
Partner facility and specialist plan
Coordination and transfers
Hotel options near care
Interpreter when needed
Do you run the laboratory, or is the Fulya office a hospital?
You meet us at our Fulya office to choose a check-up programme and talk the plan through. Labs, imaging and review take place with the hospital team you are matched with. We stay with you after you fly home with the reports.
Who performs the labs, imaging, and medical review?
The hospital teams we match you with. Phlebotomy draws blood. Radiology runs imaging. Physicians review the file with you. Diagnosis belongs to those doctors. Estefulya helps you choose the program, prepares the calendar, and stays with you after the reports come home. Use the in-person visit to ask the questions only the treating doctor can answer.
What is a personalised preliminary assessment?
It is a written planning note based on your goals, your history, and, when useful, prior records. A coordinator prepares the file. A relevant partner physician may add comments on what the papers suggest and what must wait for an exam. The note is not a diagnosis, not a booking, and not a promise that every test you read about will be included. After you arrive, the plan can change because an exam is clearer in the room than on a screen.
What is the difference between the check-up programs?
40+ Women and 40+ Men are structured screens for this decade. Prostate Health and Heart & Metabolic put one subject at the centre. Executive is a shorter, focused week. Comprehensive is a wider net with more time and more specialist review. None of the names is a quality grade. Partner physicians still confirm the final list in person, and medical details are refined with the treating team.
Can a check-up really fit into the same week?
Many executive journeys are planned as a same-week pattern: arrive, rest, complete a fasting morning of labs and imaging, sit for review, then fly when the treating team is comfortable. That is a typical pattern, not a guarantee. Some assays take longer than a day. Comprehensive paths more often use two facility days inside the same week. We align hotel and transfers to the window the partner team recommends.
What reports do I take home?
You should leave with laboratory tables, imaging reports, and, when the partner program includes one, a physician summary. Many people also receive a digital copy of images. Ask for English pages if you need them, and still keep the original numbers. Carry the packet in your hand luggage. If a slower test is pending, the coordinator should tell you how the remaining page will reach you.
How do prior records help, and what should I send?
Prior records show trends. A cholesterol number that looks high is read differently if last year's page was similar. Send recent labs, the last written imaging report for each relevant area, clinic letters, and a medicine list with doses. If you have nothing, say so. The visit becomes a baseline. Files are shared only with coordinators and the relevant partner medical specialists, encrypted, and never sold.
What should I do about fasting and my usual medicines?
Follow the fasting clock on your itinerary, which comes from the partner facility. Many sugar and fat tests need about eight to twelve hours without calories. Water is often allowed. Do not stop a prescribed medicine unless the partner team said to hold it. Bring the boxes and a written list. Diabetes medicines and blood thinners need an early mention. If you feel faint on the morning of the draw, tell the nurse and the coordinator.
Should I bring a companion?
A companion is optional for many adults and useful if you want help with bags, a fasting morning, or a second set of ears in the results talk. Tell us the headcount so transfers and the hotel are right. Children should not skip breakfast because you are fasting. If you travel alone, that can still work when pickup and check-in times are already on a written itinerary.
Which airports do you use for pickup?
We plan airport transfers from Istanbul Airport (IST) and from Sabiha Gokcen Airport (SAW). You choose the flight. We need the correct airport and any delay updates. Drive time depends on traffic and which side of the city your hotel is on. A late arrival usually goes straight to the hotel so you can sleep before a fasting morning.
What if a test finds something unexpected?
The partner physician decides what an unexpected line means and whether you need a repeat, an extra scan, or a plan you will finish at home. Estefulya rebuilds remaining appointments if the treating team wants more time in Istanbul. Local emergency care where you live still comes first if you become acutely unwell.
How are costs decided if there is no public price list?
Pricing follows the assessment and the partner plan. Package width, add-on imaging, extra specialist reviews, hotel nights, and interpreter time all change the total. We break quotes into coordination, medical and facility, and hotel lines when those are billed separately. Flights are usually yours. We share a labelled quote once a partner plan exists.
Which languages can coordinators use?
Coordinators work in English. Depending on who is assigned, Arabic, German, or French may also be available. Tell us your preferred language in the first WhatsApp or form message. Interpreter support at the hospital is arranged when the medical conversation needs a language the treating team does not share.
How do I start a health check-up conversation?
Send a WhatsApp message or complete the same short inquiry form used on this website. Share your name, country, and what you want from a check-up in plain sentences. Records are welcome later if a preliminary assessment would help. There is no photo-upload funnel on this page. You are not booking a hospital slot by filling the form.
Address
Teşvikiye Mah. Hakkı Yeten Cad. No:11 D:51 Fulya Terrace Center 2
Şişli, Istanbul
Hours
Monday - Friday: 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sunday: By appointment only
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