Girl receives UK's first kidney transplant without need for life-long drugs | NHS
Aditi Shankar, eight, has pioneering treatment resulting in her body accepting donor kidney as its own
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Aditi Shankar, eight, has pioneering treatment resulting in her body accepting donor kidney as its own
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
An eight-year-old girl from London has become the first person in the UK to have a kidney transplant that her body won't reject without drugs after doctors "reprogrammed" her DNA.
Eight-old-girl Aditi Shankar became the first person in the UK to get a kidney transplant without needing to get life-long drugs. How did the doctors make it possible?
Scrabble-loving Aditi Shankar will not need to use life-long medicine to prevent her body from rejecting the organ.