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# Glycogen storage disease (GSD) - Whole blood and components

## Essential information

Obligatory

  Must not donate if:

  Suffers from a glycogen storage disease.

Discretionary

  If the potential donor suffers from:

  - Type 0 (glycogen synthase deficiency)
  - Type V (McArdle disease)
  - Type XI (Fanconi-Bickel syndrome)
  - Type XII (red cell aldolase deficiency)
  - Type XIII glycogen storage disease (beta-enolase deficiency)

  accept.

## Supporting information

Additional information

  GSD is the result of defects in the processing of glycogen synthesis or breakdown within muscles, liver, and other cell types. GSD in humans is genetic, caused by an inborn error of metabolism (genetically defective enzymes) involved in these processes.

Version details:

  WB-DSG Edition 203 Release 36 (01 November 2016)

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