Showing posts with label Tissue donation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tissue donation. Show all posts

Monday, 10 September 2012

Tissue donation

There are a number of absolute contraindications to tissue donations. These include the following circumstances EXCEPT for which one?

a) A patient with a family history of Creutzfeldt–Jacob disease (CJD)
b) A patient with Alzheimer’s disease
c) A patient with multiple sclerosis
d) A patient who has had a previous transplant requiring immunosuppressive
treatment even if that treatment was not being received at the time of death
e) Donation of corneas and sclera from a patient who has died with a proven
diagnosis of metastatic carcinoma of the colon