PFA Critical Illness typically covers the following diagnoses:
- Severe blood clot in the heart (acute myocardial infarction (AMI))
- Cardiovascular surgery due to severe coronary sclerosis (bypass/PCI)
- Chronic cardiac insufficiency with severe symptoms at rest and reduced functional capacity
- Life-threatening cardiac valve irregularities with the implantation of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD)
- Heart valve surgery due to heart valve defect
- Cerebral haemorrhage or blood clot in the brain (apoplexy) with permanent sequelae
- Sac-like protrusion of an artery of the brain (aneurysm) or intracranial vascular malformation (AV malformation) including cavernous angioma that requires surgery
- Severe illness in the main artery (aorta) with occlusion, rupture or substantial local aorta aneurysm with indication for surgery
- a. Cancer with the exception of less aggressive types
b. Cancer in the blood and blood-forming organs with the exception of less aggressive types - Certain benign tumours in the brain or spinal cord where surgery is necessary which leaves residual tumour or severe permanent sequelae
- Disseminated sclerosis (DS)
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or motor neuron disease (MND) with lasting and progressive symptoms
- Chronic renal failure
- Major organ transplant
- AIDS
- HIV infection due to blood transfusion or occupational infection
- Muscular atrophy (myopathy and neuropathy) with lasting progressive symptoms
- Myasthenia gravis with lasting symptoms
- Practical blindness
- Total deafness
- Primary Parkinson’s disease
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD and vCJD)
- Inflammation of the brain or cerebrospinal meningitis (including Borrelia and TBE) resulting in considerable neurological sequelae
- Third-degree burn (ambustio), frostbite or corrosive burns that cover at least 20 % of the body’s surface
- Terminal illness.