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Eligible Organ Donor for solid organ donation (Kidneys, liver, heart, pancreas):

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age – Up to 70 years old or younger (No age limit for eye and tissue donation)
2. Brain death declaration by Govt. authorized neuro-clinicians. 

Note: Two sets of brain death certification at 6 hours apart.Second set time considered the actual timing of declared death

Exclusion Criteria for Organ Donation:

Active infections (specific diagnoses)

I. Bacterial infection

1. Tuberculosis
2. Gangrenous bowel or perforated bowel and/or intra-abdominal sepsis

II Viral infections

• HIV infection by serologic or molecular detection

• Rabies

• Reactive Hepatitis B Surface Antigen

• Retroviral infections including HTLV I/II

• Viral Encephalitis or Meningitis

• Active Herpes simplex, varicella zoster, or cytomegalovirus viremia or pneumonia

• Acute Epstein Barr Virus (mononucleosis)

• West Nile Virus infection

• SARS

III Fungal infections:

• Active infection with Cryptococcus, Aspergillus, Histoplasma, Coccidioides Active candidemia or invasive yeast infection

IV Parasites:

• Active infection with Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas')

• Leishmania, Strongyloides, or Malaria (Plasmodium sp.)

V Prion:

• Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease

VI Other Exclusions

• Aplastic Anemia

• Aplastic Anemia

• Agranulocytosis

• Extreme Immaturity (<500 grams or gestational age of <32 weeks)

• Current malignant neoplasms except :

• non-melanoma skin cancers such as basal cell and squamous cell cancer Primary CNS tumors without evident metastatic disease

• Previous malignant neoplasms with current evident metastatic disease

• A history of melanoma

• Hematologic malignancies: Leukemia, Hodgkin's Disease, Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma

• Multi-system organ failure (MSOF) due to overwhelming sepsis or MSOF without sepsis defined as 3 or more systems in simultaneous failure for a period of 24 hours or more without response to treatment or resuscitation

• Active Fungal, Parasitic, viral, or Bacterial Meningitis or encephalitis

VII The following reversible causes of coma should have been excluded when declaring brain death:

• Intoxication (Alcohol)

• Depressant Drugs

• Relaxants (Neuromuscular blocking agents)

• Primary hypothermia

• Hypovolaemic shock

• Metabolic or endocrine disorders

• Previous malignant neoplasms with current evident metastatic disease

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