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Girl switches blood type in first-known case
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by Obi-Akpere | January 24, 2008 at 06:29 am
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An Australian girl spontaneously switched blood groups and adopted her
donor's immune system following a liver transplant in the first known
case of its type, doctors treating her said Thursday. Demi-Lee Brennan was aged nine and seriously ill with liver failure when she received the transplant, doctors at a top Sydney children's hospital told AFP.Nine months later it was discovered that she had changed blood types and her immune system had switched over to that of the donor after stem cells from the new liver migrated to her bone marrow.
She is now a healthy 15-year-old, Michael Stormon, a hepatologist treating her, told AFP. Stormon said he had given several presentations on the case around the world and had heard of none like it.
"It is extremely unusual -- in fact we don't know of any other instance in which this happened," Stormon told AFP from the Children's Hospital.
"In effect she had had a bone marrow transplant. The majority of her immune system had also switched over to that of the donor."
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at 08:45 on January 24th, 2008
Mysterious! I've heard of heart transplant, liver transplant, and other types of organ transplants, but this should best be called "BLOOD GROUP TRANSPLANT" and I've never heard of it before.
I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 09:41 on January 24th, 2008
Thanks for the flag Leattle Pablo. This reminds me of a Jahovah Witnesses belief "no blood transfusion". I am not a member of Jahovah Witnesses though!