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. 2023 Jul 17;12(14):4717. doi: 10.3390/jcm12144717

Table 2.

List of exclusion criteria for allograft procurement. If one of the listed points, applies the patient is not eligible for donor skin harvesting.

  • Unknown cause of death

  • Disease of unknown aetiology

  • Presence or history of malignant disease

  • Risk of disease transmission by prions:
    • -
      Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
    • -
      Individuals with a history of rapidly progressive dementia or degenerative neurologic disease
  • Active (systemic) infections

  • Connective tissue diseases

  • Recipients of xenografts

  • Chemotherapy and/or immunosuppressant use (if less than three months before death)

  • Signs for risk of transmission of HIV, HBV, HCV, HTLV or other infectious diseases

  • Physical signs on the donor’s body suggesting a risk of infectious disease

  • Confirmed or suspected vaccination with live vaccine within the previous four weeks, with risk of transmission considered possible

  • Extraneous history of chronic, systemic autoimmune disease

  • Signs of invalid test results from donor blood samples

  • Myocarditis or endocarditis