Eight-year-old Aditi Shankar underwent a kidney transplant at Great Ormond Street Hospital in the UK, but unlike other cases, the child will not have to take medication for the rest of her life.
According to the hospital, this is only possible because Aditi, who suffered from an immune disease, received her mother’s bone marrow six months before the kidney transplant she needed due to severe and irreversible kidney failure was carried out. “Transplantation [de medula óssea] reprogrammed the immune system to make it identical to the donor’s kidney so that the new organ would not attack Aditi’s body,” the hospital explains.
Thanks to a double transplant, the life of an eight-year-old girl has changed dramatically. She went from being on dialysis in the hospital three days a week to having full energy. “Aditi is now back home and loves singing, dancing and playing on her scooter,” Great Ormond Street Hospital says.
Typically, organ transplant recipients take immunosuppressants for the rest of their lives to prevent rejection of the new organ.
Author: morning Post
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