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Table 5 List of diseases and complications treated by the specialized component of PA. February 2015

From: Legal access to medications: a threat to Brazil’s public health system?

Acne

Gaucher disease

Osteoporosis

Acquired pure red cell aplasia

Glaucoma

Paget’s disease - osteitis deformans

Acromegaly

Growth hormone deficiency - hypopituitarism

Parkinson’s disease

Acute coronary syndromes

Guillain-Barré syndrome

Phenylketonuria

Alzheimer’s disease

Haemangioma

Polycystic ovary syndrome and

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Heart and lung transplantation

Primary adrenal insufficiency - Addison’s disease

Anaemia in chronic renal failure

Heart transplant

Primary immunodeficiency

Ankylosing spondylitis

Hereditary angioedema

Prophylaxis of reinfection by the Hepatitis B virus following liver transplantation

Aplastic anaemia

Hereditary ichthyosis

Psoriasis

Asthma

Hirsutism

Psoriatic arthritis

Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia

HIV disease resulting in other diseases

Pulmonary arterial hypertension

Autoimmune hepatitis

Hyperphosphatemia in chronic renal failure

Reactive arthritis

Bone marrow or pancreas transplantation

Hyperprolactinemia

Reiter’s disease

Central precocious puberty

Hypoparathyroidism

Renal osteodystrophy

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura

Renal transplantation

Chronic viral hepatitis B

Inflammatory spondylopathy

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Iron overload

Rickets and osteomalacia

Crohn’s disease

Leiomyoma of the uterus

Schizoaffective disorder

Cystic fibrosis

Liver transplantation

Schizophrenia

Dermatomyositis and polymyositis

Lung transplantation

Sickle cell disease

Diabetes insipidus

Lupus systemic erythematosus

Spasticity

dyslipidaemia

Multiple sclerosis

Systemic sclerosis

Endometriosis

Myasthenia gravis

Turner Syndrome

Epilepsy

Nephrotic syndrome

Ulcerative colitis

Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency

Neutropenia

Viral hepatitis C

Focal dystonia and hemifacial spasm

Non-infectious posterior uveitis

Wilson’s disease

  1. Source: Ministry of Health homepage