The Ministry of Health has updated the list of rare diseases

The Russian Ministry of Health has updated the list of rare (orphan) diseases, including new nosological forms and clarifying certain positions of the current classification, according to a document published on June 23 on the agency's website.

According to the current version, the list now includes 303 diseases.

In particular, the list includes primary erythromelalgia, a rare genetically determined disease associated with mutations in the SCN9A gene. Other rare pathologies are also included in the list, and separate groups of hereditary and congenital diseases belonging to various classes of diseases have been clarified.

Updating the list is aimed at improving the accuracy of the diagnosis of orphan diseases and simplifying organizational and registration procedures for providing medicines to patients.

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