Services
On this webpage, a general overview of the the services and procedures offered in the Center for Prenatal Medicine Mainz formerly Darmstadt is given. For more detailed information, please refer to the subpages of this section.
Prenatal counseling
Non invasive procedures
- NIPT / NIPD – Non Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis (Measurement of fetal DNA in maternal blood – PraenaTest) (>12+0 weeks gestation)
- NT scan – Combined Nuchal Translucency Test (11-14 weeks gestation)
- Screening for pre-eclampsia (11-14 weeks gestation)
- Second trimester sreening tests (quadruple test – quad screen) (14-19 weeks gestation)
- Exclusion of fetal anomalies: High Resolution Targeted Ultrasound (>12 weeks gestation)
- fetal Echocardiography (> 12+0 weeks gestation)
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Doppler Ultrasound (> 11+4 weeks gestation as auxiliary procedure in the detection of fetal structural anomalies, > 23+0 weeks gestation as targeted method to diagnose or exclude placental insufficiency)
Invasive procedures – diagnostic
- CVS – Chorionic Villus Sampling (> 10+0 weeks)
- Amniocentesis (> 15+0 weeks)
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PUBS-Percutaneous umbilical cord blood sampling = Fetal Blood Sampling (> 18+0 weeks)
Invasive procedures – Fetal Therapy
- Fetal Blood Transfusion
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Fetal Shunting (vesicoamniotic shunts, thoracoamniotic shunts)
Interdisciplinary medical counseling and care