Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a respiratory disease that causes flu or cold-like symptoms, but can increase risks or lead to more serious complications like bronchitis or pneumonia, particularly among the elderly, young children, and immunocompromised people.
It is a simple, safe and very accurate prenatal test (NIPT), with which you can check if your baby is at risk of having some of the most common chromosomal abnormalities, such as Down syndrome, Edwards, Patau and others.
Alpha Tryptasemia (α-tryptasemia) is a genetic trait, inherited in an autosomal dominant manner, caused by an increased number of copies of the TPSAB1 gene, which codes for α-tryptase. In this condition, patients present with serum tryptase levels greater than or equal to 8ng/ml, and manifest a wide range of clinical symptoms
Parvovirus B19 is an exanthematous cytotoxic virus that manifests as an infectious erythema resembling the rubella infection. It is called 5th disease because it is the 5th most common childhood infection, causing fever, rash and transient acute arthritis. However, it is less serious than the others: measles, rubella, scarlet fever.
In our modern laboratory, equipped with state of the art equipment, blood draw gets easier with the special VeinFinder machine .
The specialised machine can assist with the visualisation of the patient’s veins.
