A specific procedure is followed for each examination. For most tests, the radioactive substance is injected into the vein. For some tests, you'll inhale a gas or the radioactive substance will be administered in the form of a meal or drink. The radioactive substance then circulates in your body and accumulates in the organ to be examined. You will not experience any significant discomfort from the ingestion. Allergic reactions occur extremely rare and only very mild.

For the recordings, you have to lie down under the gamma camera. To take images with the highest possible quality, the gamma camera is brought as close as possible to the organ to be examined. It is important that you lie still and breathe calmly during the image recording. You do not lie in a tunnel for the examination.

The examination is painless. Just puncturing the blood vessel can be painful and is comparable to the puncture for a blood test. The injection itself has no side effects: no allergic reactions, heat sensation or drowsiness. You can leave the hospital immediately after the examination on your own, unless the doctor gives you other instructions.

Afterwards, the test results will be sent to your treating doctor who requested the test. You can make an appointment with this doctor to discuss the results.

For ethical and privacy reasons, the lab will not discuss or communicate results to the patient or family. Your doctorwill receive the result in writing, by phone or electronically and discuss the results with you.

As patient, you can therefore request the lab result from your doctor.

For standard tests, the result is usually available within a few hours, but for some tests, it takes several days to several weeks before the result is known. Emergency tests are prior at any time of the day. We strive to make results available within the hour in acute situations.

Results of analyses that require immediate attention of the attending doctor are reported to the doctor by telephone.  

For examining bowel movements, the following guidelines apply depending on the purpose of the examination:

Download the guidelines for taking a microbiological examination

Download the guidelines for looking up blood 

Urin samples can be dropped off at the clinical biology lab on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
If you have to hand in a urine sample for examination, you must collect the urine in a special jar. You can pick up these jars, upon presentation of your request form, at the counter of the lab. Return the jar with urine at the laboratory counter. You always have the possibility to collect your urine within the laboratory.

Download the guidelines for collecting a urine sample (female)

Download the guidelines for collecting a urine sample (male)

Download the guidelines for collecting a urine sample (small children)

If you need to collect urine for a 24-hour examination, you must collect that urine in special designated jars. You can pick up these jars, upon presentation of your request form, at the laboratory counter. The instructions for collecting urine are described on these jars and will be clarified to you when you pick them up. Handing in the jars with the collected urine is also done at the counter of the lab.

Download the guidelines for collection of a 24-hour urine collection

In the clinical biology lab, we examine the quality of sperm. In case of fertility problems, the gynecologist may decide to proceed with intrauterine insemination, in which sperm cells are inserted directly into the uterus. In this procedure, we first treat the sperm in the lab in order to insert the highest quality sperm.

After sterilization (vasectomy), the sperm must be examined for the presence of sperm cells to verify the success of the procedure.

Before taking a sample, you must first register at the laboratory secretariat. Bring the request from your doctor with you so that we have the necessary administrative data. After making an appointment, you ll be given the appropriate collection material to take home.

a. Fertility testing

Can be done from Monday to Friday between 8 a.m. and noon.

Download the guidelines for semen sample collection and transport

b. Capacitation

For final insemination, the sample will be prepared on the day determined by the gynecologist between 8 a.m. and noon (Monday through Saturday, not Sunday). The laboratory will be notified of this at least 24 hours in advance.

The capacitated sample is made available approximately one and a half hours after delivery. The gynecologist will be notified as soon as the sample is ready.

The gynecologist will be notified as soon as the sample is ready.

The collection procedure is just the same as for a fertility test. You will receive the collection material when you make the appointment.

It is important that the man first has a blood test done to detect sexually transmitted diseases. This examination takes place maximum 7 days before insemination and therefore not on the day of the insemination itself.

c. Check-up after sterilization (vasectomy)

• Can be done Monday to Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• Bring the sample to the laboratory within an hour of collection.
• On the jar you have to write your name, date of birth, collection date and time.
• The sample is delivered directly to the laboratory along with an application signed by the doctor.

For venous blood draws or the delivery of collection tubes, you can visit the laboratory without an appointment. For endocrinology stimulation tests, you'll need to make an appointment. This is possible on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Blood sampling:

• Weekdays: from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays: from 9 a.m. to noon
• Location: block D, first (1) floor
• If you are not enrolled at the hospital, you'll need to provide us with a recent health insurance sticker.

• your identity card
• the name of your general practitioner
• an insurance card or payment agreement from a hospitalization insurance company (if applicable)
• a payment commitment from the OCMW (Social Welfare) or other agency that intervenes in the hospital bill (if applicable)

If you experience problems at home after your surgery, contact your GP or call the hospital (emergency department) at 011 69 93 33.

If you have any questions about your home situation after the operation, you can - if you wish - contact our hospital's social service at 011 69 91 40 (available every working day during office hours).

The day after the procedure, a nurse from the day surgery centre will contact you to ask how things are going and if everything went smoothly.

You'll be allowed to go home after permission from the surgeon and anesthesiologist. You will be given guidelines for your further treatment along with a letter addressed to your GP.

Under no circumstances may you leave home alone. Arrange for transport and a companion to take you home.

During the first 24 hours after surgery, an adult must remain near you at all times who can call for help in case of any problems.

• identity card
• documents for hospitalization insurance (e.g., Medicard ...)
• any medication that you normally take at home/medication list
• comfortable clothes
• possibly a book or magazine for some distraction