JPAC Joint United Kingdom (UK) Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee

Immune Thrombocytopenia

ObligatoryMust not donate if:
a) Symptomatic.

b) Chronic.

c) Recovered, but less than six months from recovery.

This applies to both adult and childhood disease.
See if RelevantIf treated with immunoglobulin or plasma exchange:
Transfusion

If treated with immunosuppressive therapy:
Immunosuppression
Reason for ChangeThe links have been revised.

The phrase, 'Recovered, but has ever had a recurrence' has been removed and 'five years from recovery' has been reduced to six months as both were considered unnecessarily restrictive.

Update Information

This entry was last updated in
TDSG-BM Edition 203, Release 02