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2008-01-24 Science & Technology

Girl switches blood type after liver transplant in first known case

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-24 11:41|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 She had better hope that her donor's immune system didn't have anything to do with his becoming a donor.

Posted by Iblis 2008-01-24 12:40|| 2008-01-24 12:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Hard to think of anything to say but "Wow!"

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2008-01-24 12:42|| 2008-01-24 12:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Researchers are going to be all over this. The implications for liver, blood and bone marrow, immune, stem cell, transplant and a bunch of other studies just boggle.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-01-24 12:52|| 2008-01-24 12:52|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't know anything about transplant protocols, but isn't having the same blood type (and several other similarities) as the donee one of them?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-24 12:54|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-01-24 12:54|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm guessing the donor was O- or at least Rh-.

Posted by ed 2008-01-24 12:56|| 2008-01-24 12:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Ed: correct. We do match blood type, and certain other antigens, for transplants. Some of these antigens are really, really important, some less so.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-01-24 13:48|| 2008-01-24 13:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Steve, how many of the other blood typing systems are important? I know there are a whole bunch of them, though they don't seem to matter for blood transfusions. But organ transplantation is permanent.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-01-24 21:43|| 2008-01-24 21:43|| Front Page Top

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