Japanese Intractable Diseases Information Center

What is an intractable disease?

Disease list for Specified Disease Treatment Research Program

Name of the disease is linked to the explanation in Japanese:

Acromegaly
adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
amyloidosis
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
aplastic anemia
Behcet disease
Budd-Chiari syndrome
Buerger disease
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
corticobasal degeneration
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
Crohn disease
Cushing disease
dermatomyositis
dilated cardiomyopathy, congestive cardiomyopathy
disseminated spinal canal stenosis
epidermolysis bullosa
Fabry disease
Familial Hypercholesterolemia ( Homozygous type)
fatal familial insomnia
fulminant hepatitis
Gerstmann-Straussler-Sheinker syndrome
Huntington disease
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Hypopituitarism
idiopathic chronic pulmonary thromboembolism with pulmonary hypertension
idiopathic interstitial pneumonia
idiopathic necrosis of the femoral head
idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
lymphangioleiomyomatosis
lysosomal storage diseases （see also Fabry disease）
malignant rheumatoid arthritis
microscopic polyangiitis
Mitochondrial disease
mixed connective-tissue disease
moyamoya disease
multiple sclerosis
myasthenia gravis
neurofibromatosis type 1
neurofibromatosis type 2
olivopontocerebellar atrophy (OPCA)
ossification of posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL)
Ossification of the ligamentum flavum
Parkinson disease
pemphigus
polyarteritis nodosa
polymyositis
primary biliary cirrhosis
primary immunodeficiency syndrome
primary pulmonary hypertension
progressive supranuclear palsy
pustular psoriasis
Restrictive cardiomyopathy
retinitis pigmentosa
rheumatoid vasculitis
sarcoidosis
scleroderma
Severe erythema multiforme (Acute Phase)
severe acute pancreatitis
Shy-Drager syndrome
spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA)
spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
spinocerebellar degeneration
striatonigral degeneration (SND)
subacute myelo-optico-neuropathy (SMON)
subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)
Syndrome of abnormal secretion of antidiuretic hormone
Syndrome of abnormal secretion of gonadotropin
Syndrome of abnormal secretion of prolactin
Syndrome of abnormal secretion of Thyroid stimulating hormone
systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Takayasu arteritis
thromboangitis obliterans
ulcerative colitis
Wegener granulomatosis