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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."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080124/ts_afp/australiahealthchildrentransplant

1/24/2008 9:37:31 AM

this could have some rather interesting implications

1/24/2008 9:38:54 AM

something like this?

1/24/2008 9:39:55 AM

perhaps

1/24/2008 9:41:42 AM

^^^yeah

1/24/2008 9:47:20 AM

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1/24/2008 9:47:34 AM

^it means she's got a different blood type now?

1/24/2008 9:57:25 AM

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1/24/2008 10:03:32 AM

very interesting actually...

1/24/2008 10:07:02 AM

i can almost guarantee this has happened. but people dont want medicine getting out. now that its out its big. no more big time operations. ok well a liver transplant is big.


just pop a pill. you be st8

[Edited on January 24, 2008 at 10:10 AM. Reason : ]

1/24/2008 10:10:03 AM

that sounds pretty crazy.

exciting shit

1/24/2008 11:08:09 AM

cool

1/24/2008 11:10:16 AM

Why would they give her an organ with a different blood type in the first place?

1/24/2008 11:12:36 AM

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1/24/2008 11:14:31 AM

i might be mistaken, but certain blood types can mix w/o risk of rejection by the body....I think one type will even successfully mix with any other type?

1/24/2008 11:16:25 AM

well the thing is that they could have given her a type to match because of her antigens not because of blood type. Such as O type has both A and B antigens, while AB type have none.

as well, you may be a blood type and because of the Rhieses(sp) factor, you could be O.

so really there is a way to get a blood type not exactly your own and not reject it.

[Edited on January 24, 2008 at 11:17 AM. Reason : .]

1/24/2008 11:17:22 AM

AB will take anything and O can give to anything

1/24/2008 11:17:33 AM

http://www.livingdonorsonline.org/kidney/kidney4.htm

1/24/2008 11:33:05 AM