Eight-year-old gets UK-first kidney transplant without need for life-long drugs
Scrabble-loving Aditi Shankar will not need to use life-long medicine to prevent her body from rejecting the organ.
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Scrabble-loving Aditi Shankar will not need to use life-long medicine to prevent her body from rejecting the organ.
The stem cell transplant performed at London's Great Ormond Street (Gosh), means the eight-year-old's body accepted the organ as her own, sparing her a lifetime of medication.
A UK-first procedure means Aditi Shankar's body accepts her new kidney as its own, following pioneering work by doctors at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.
A little girl's immune system was "reprogrammed" by her mother before receiving one of her kidneys, a first in the UK.
Aditi Shankar has become the UK's first case of a kidney transplant that doesn't require lifelong immunosuppressant drugs afterwards - letting the eight-year-old live a normal and active life