Mandatory medical device diagnostics in gravidity (pregnancy).
- Vaginal sonography (ultrasound examination using an ultrasound probe inserted into the vagina) or abdominal sonography (every 4 weeks)
- Fetal ultrasound diagnostics (malformation diagnostics).
- Doppler sonography to determine the blood flow pattern in the uterine arteries as well as fetal blood flows in arteries and veins; impending placental insufficiency (lack of function of the placenta) can thus be detected as early as the 20th to 24th week of pregnancy (SSW) (every 4 weeks from the 20th SSW onward)
Optional medical device diagnostics – depending on the results of the history, physical examination, laboratory diagnostics and obligatory medical device diagnostics – for differential diagnostic clarification.
- Abdominal ultrasonography (ultrasound examination of abdominal organs) – for suspected hepatitis (inflammation of the liver), pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), glomerulonephritis (inflammation of the renal corpuscles).
- X-ray of the chest (X-ray thorax/chest), in two planes – if pneumonia (pneumonia) is suspected.
- Sonography (ultrasound) of the skull – in case of conspicuous newborn.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of the skull (cranial MRI or cMRI).
- Conspicuous newborn
- Congenital (congenital) toxoplasmosis to exclude hydrocephalus (hydrocephalus; abnormal dilation of the fluid-filled fluid spaces (cerebral ventricles) of the brain)/intracranial calcifications (cerebral sclerosis)
- Echocardiography (echo; cardiac ultrasound) – if myocarditis (heart muscle disease) is suspected.
