- Cancer (except for cancer precursors, HIV-related tumours and skin cancer)
- Certain benign tumours of the brain and spinal cord
- Coronary thrombosis
- Planned surgery or dilatation of constricted coronary arteries (bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty)
- Surgery for cardiac valve disease (patient must have undergone surgery)
- Cerebral thrombosis or cerebral haemorrhage (stroke)
- Saccular dilation of the cerebral arteries (aneurism)
- Chronic kidney failure
- Multiple sclerosis
- ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
- Major organ transplant (heart, lung, liver, bone marrow)
- HIV infection as a result of blood transfusion or occupational infection
- AIDS
- Deafness (permanent hearing loss on both ears)
- Blindness (permanent loss of sight on both eyes)
- Muscular atrophy (certain specific diagnoses)
- Parkinson’s disease
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Bacterial meningitis (inflammation of the membranes of the brain)
- Borrelia infection in meninges, nerve roots or brain (neuroborreliosis)
- Major burns (ambustio)
- Aorta disease (coronary artery disease)