Exclusion Criteria
Potential blood stem cell donors must be in good health and have no condition that by donating would adversely affect:
- The health of the donor
- The health of the patient
- The successful completion of an apheresis procedure
If any one of the following applies to you, unfortunately you will be unable to join the DKMS Stem Cell Registry as a potential Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Donor:
- You are aged under 18 or over 55.
- You are severely overweight (a BMI of more than 40).
- You will not be able to register if you have any of the following conditions:
- Obesity (i.e. body mass index (BMI) >40)
- Severe heart, lung or kidney diseases
- Severe illnesses of the central nervous system
- Severe mental health conditions
- Severe metabolic diseases
- Addictions (alcohol, drugs, tablets)
- Severe tropical infectious diseases
- Infectious diseases like HIV, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C, Syphilis
- Systemic autoimmune diseases or other severe chronic illnesses (e.g. diabetes or rheumatism)
- Cancer (including being cancer-free, but having had cancer in the past)
- Diseases of the haematopoietic system (blood disorders)
- You will be able to register, without additional consultation, if the following criteria applies to you:
- Enlarged Thyroid or Underactive Thyroid (Hypothyroidism/Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis stable and symptom-free. NOT Graves’ disease)
- Iron-deficiency anaemia (if treatable with iron supplement)
- Hay fever, mild asthma, food allergy
- Basalioma and cervical carcinomain situ (if fully removed)
- Unipolar depression (mild depression, no previous manic episodes, without any limitations in daily life)
- High blood pressure (stable and well-controlled)
