Cardiomyopathy - Tissue - Deceased Donors

Essential information

Obligatory
  1. Eyes:
    Must not donate if:
    1. Associated with extraocular muscle paresis, e.g. Kearns-Sayre Syndrome.
    2. Not recovered from infective causes.

  2. Other tissues:
    Must not donate if:
    1. Not recovered from infective causes.
    2. cardiomyopathy secondary to an infiltrative process e.g. amyloidosis, sarcoidosis.

Supporting information

Reason for change:
The entry has been changed to make it clear that cardiomyopathy is not an absolute contraindication to donation of cardiovascular tissues.
Version details:

TD-DSG Edition 203 Release 26 (10 October 2016)