TESTS
Prenatal Screening

Prenatal screening includes a series of tests aimed at ensuring the health of the mother and the baby.

It concerns a set of tests that are necessary to be done at the beginning of every pregnancy or even before the couple starts trying to conceive.

Prenatal screening tests include:

• Complete Blood Count (CBC)

• Blood group - Rhesus factor

• Blood glucose - HbA1c - glucose tolerance test

• Urea - creatinine - uric acid

• Hemoglobin electrophoresis - sickle cell test

• Australian antigen HbsAg (hepatitis B screening)

• anti-HCV

• HIV I & II

• Rubella Antibodies (Abs) IgG-IgM

• Varicella Abs IgG-IgM

• Toxoplasma Abs IgG-IgM

• Cytomegalovirus Abs IgG-IgM

• Cytomegalovirus - Avidity (immune response maturity) test in cases of positive IgM and IgG - for Rubella, Toxoplasma, Listeria

• Urinalysis

• RPR, VDRL for syphilis

• Thyroid function tests (TSH, FT3, FT4)

• G6PD

• CFTR (cystic fibrosis screening)

• Vaginal fluid culture

• Molecular thrombophilia testing

• RAPP-A test (PAPP-a, free β-hCG) 10th to 14th week of pregnancy

• Alpha-fetoprotein test or triple test (human chorionic gonadotropin, alpha-fetoprotein, free estriol) in the 2nd trimester of pregnancy - 15th to 20th week of pregnancy.