Mandatory Pre-Arrival Blood Tests & Medical Tests

All medical tests, including blood tests, that should be done the week BEFORE medical travel to Belgrade are, of course, NOT included in package prices.

For procedures that require approval by psychiatrists or qualified mental health professionals, the original psychiatric evaluations approving surgery (on the professionals' official stationary and with their signatures affixed) MUST be hand delivered to Dr Djinovic when you go to Belgrade.

Do NOT send them by any other means.

Both children and adults need to be healthy without any active illness to be suitable candidates for urogenital reconstructive surgery. Before medical travel, a physical exam and number of PRE-ARRIVAL tests are required and mandatory to ensure you have no medical conditions that would increase the risk of surgery.

All PRE-arirval tests listed in the table above are excluded from all surgery packages.

Any medical exam done in Belgrade will be charged by the hospital directly to you.

For children, the six required tests include (cost of doing these in Belgrade in parentheses | US dollar equivalent is only approximate):

1. Pediatric Exam (€50 | $63);
2. Blood Analysis (€20 | $27);
3. Urine Analysis (€15 | $20);
4. Blood Group (€16 | $22);
5. PT (€5 | $7); and
6. PTT (€5 | $7).

The anesthesiologist, pediatrician or Dr Djinovic may require additional blood tests, if they consider them appropriate. If needed, those seven additional blood tests would include:

1. suger level;
2. urea;
3. creatinin;
4. ALT;
5. potassium;
6. natrium; and
7. chloride.

The cost for these additional exams would be Euros 25 (US$34).

For adults, the seven required pre-arrival tests include:

1. Internist Exam (internal medicine specialist [€56 | $75]);
2. Blood Analysis (€50 | $63);
3. Urine Analysis (urine test, urinalysis [€15 | $20]);
4. Blood Group (blood typing [€16 | $22]);
5. PT (Prothrombin Time | Clotting Time [€5 | $7]);
6. PTT (Partial Thromboplastin Time [€5 | $7]); and
7. Chest X-Ray (€20 | $27).

If you come to Belgrade unwell or unsuitable for surgery, your surgery WILL be postponed.

Adult blood tests should include HIV, Hepatitis B & Hepatitis C.

HIV+ or Hep C positive disqualifies a person from elective surgeries.

Bring blood test results and the medical information from the other medical tests when you come and hand deliver them to Dr Djinovic.

The doctor exam and lab tests tell the doctors and surgeon a lot about you. Urinalysis alone can reveal nearly 100 indicators of your health, especially how well your kidneys are working.

Urine analysis is very useful and will tell them whether urine clarity, odor and color are normal as well as specific gravity, presence of protein, glucose level, nitrites, ketones, leukocyte esterase and much more.

Blood tests enable blood typing at the same time as checking for serious problems such as cancer, coronary disease, diabetes, anemia, and the various types of hepatitis. A blood test will show quality of liver function, kidney function and complete blood count, including the red & white blood cells, platelets, hemoglobin, hematocrit and mean corpuscular volume. It will show total, HDL and LDL cholesterol levels.

The Prothrombin Time blood test is sometimes called “International Normalized Ratio Test” (INR or PT-INR). PT measures extrinsic coagulation and PTT measures intrinsic coagulation.