An eight-year-old girl who has become the first person in the UK to receive a rejection-free kidney has spoken of her delight at being able to go swimming.
Aditi Shankar will not have to take life-long drugs to stop rejection after her immune system was “reprogrammed” with a stem cell transplant at Great Ormond Street.
Her body accepted a donor kidney as its own because the bone marrow transplant and kidney came from the same donor - Aditi’s mother.
“I got the kidney transplant when I went to special sleep and closed my eyes,” Aditi said.
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