Transplant girl turns medical science on its head

Having come through a liver transplant at the age of nine, Demi-Lee Brennan expected she would have to take powerful drugs for the rest of her life to stop her body rejecting the donated organ. But the youngster has amazed her doctors and is now able to live without the medication, in what experts describe as a "one-in-six-billion miracle."

Demi-Lee, now 15, is thought to be the first patient ever to take on her donor's immune system, even swapping blood groups after her transplant operation.

It means that she can now get on with fulfilling her dream of becoming a rock star.

Read full story in Scotsman.


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