• Cancer (except for initial stages of cancer, HIV-related tumors and skin cancer)
  • Certain benign tumours in the brain and spinal cord
  • Coronary thrombosis (coronary infarction)
  • Planned surgery for or enlargement of constricted coronary arteries (bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty)
  • Surgery for cardiac valve disease
  • Cerebral thrombosis or cerebral haemorrhage (stroke)
  • Sacculate aneurysm of the brain arteries (aneurysm)
  • Chronic renal failure
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Motor neurone diseases (MND)
  • Major organ transplant
  • HIV infection as a result of a blood transfusion or infection caused by occupational transmission
  • AIDS
  • Muscular atrophy
  • Blindness (permanent and irreversible loss of sight in both eyes)
  • Deafness (permanent and irreversible loss of hearing in both ears)
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease
  • Bacterial meningitis (inflammation of the brain membrane)
  • Borrelia infection in meninges, nerve roots or brain
  • Severe burns, frostbite or corrosive burns
  • Diseases of the aorta
  • ICD (defibrillator) implant surgery due to life-threatening irregular cardiac rhythm or cardiac arrest
  • Chronic heart failure with severe symptoms such as dyspnoea, fatigue and rapid heartbeat while at rest