An eight-year-old girl has been spared from taking life-long drugs to stop her body rejecting her kidney transplant thanks to a UK-first treatment.
Aditi Shankar’s immune system was “reprogrammed” after a stem cell transplant, resulting in her body accepting a donor kidney as its own, clinicians said.
Because the bone marrow transplant and kidney came from the same donor – Aditi’s mother – the new kidney is working without the need for drugs that stop the body from rejecting a donated organ.
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