Liver transplant girl makes history

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 yesterday.

Demi-Lee Brennan, aged nine, was seriously ill with liver failure when she received the transplant, doctors at a top Sydney children’s hospital told Agence France-Press.

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.