Aditi Shankar, eight, has pioneering treatment resulting in her body accepting donor kidney as its own
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.
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