List of diseases
Make-a-Wish®Austria’s mission is to fill and enrich the lives of children suffering from life-threatening diseases with hope, strength and joy.
The guiding principle on whether a child is entitled to wish fulfillment is that the child’s illness/condition should be classified as “life -threatening” at the time of the request for wish fulfillment. This list of diseases should serve as a guideline. Diseases and medical conditions are given as examples.
ONCOLOGY – all forms of cancer that severely restrict the quality of life such as:
- Any form of acute and chronic leukemia with chemotherapy
- Solid malignant tumors
- Brain tumor
HEMATOLOGY – chronic diseases that require transfusions or other chronic therapies such as:
- Aplastic Anemia
- Thalassemia major
- Sickle cell anemia with complications(cardiac, renal)
IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES, such as:
- Congenital immune deficiency with known limitations of life expectancy, or required bone marrow transplantation
- Acquired immunodeficiency with symptoms (HIV infection with symptoms or significant immunosuppression)
METABOLIC DISEASES, such as:
- Severe Diabetes
- Gaucher’s disease with progressive neurological involvement, and other similar diseases
NEUROLOGY, such as:
- Any brain or spinal cord tumor
- Any progressive or degenerative neurological disease
- Any progressive or degenerative myopathy such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy or any other form
- Any serious congenital diseases, such as Apert syndrome
- Severe epilepsy with difficult to correct or recurrent epileptic seizures
CARDIOLOGY – all diseases with heart failure or persistent cyanosis, such as:
- Dilated cardiomyopathy with heart failure
- Uncorrectable and palliative congenital heart defects with heart failure or cyanosis
- Eisenmenger syndrome (severe pulmonary hypertension due to congenital heart disease)
- Patients with transplantation, either pre-transplantation stage, or with complications after surgery
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT, such as:
- Congenital Atresia Of The Bile Ducts
- Severe Short Bowel Syndrome
- End-stage liver failure
- Patients with transplantation, for example, liver, intestines, pancreas; either before transplantation, or with complications after surgery
KIDNEY, such as:
- End-stage renal failure
- Patients with transplantation, either pre-transplantation stage, or with complications after surgery
LUNGS, such as:
- Complex severe cystic fibrosis
- Complex severe bronchiectasis
- Patients with transplantation, either pre-transplantation stage, or with complications after surgery
TRAUMA, such as:
- Severe burns such as third-degree burns that affect more than 30% of the entire body surface
- Polytrauma with permanent disability
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