Transplant triggers blood-type change

AFP via The Times of India ^ | 24 Jan 2008, 0030 hrs IST | AFP

[in hoc signo vinces]

Truly an amazing thing...something tells me the change was due, in large part, because the recipient was so young...but I only play an MD on TV...so what do I know?

[RightWhale]

Interesting and not surprising.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

This is very hard to believe, unless it’s a miracle.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Well, never minds; you posted both!

[Paradox]

Not a bad analysis, given another article just posted on FR. Apparently, the immune system can be reprogrammed. Maybe when a person is young, his relatively immature immune system is akin to someone whose immune system has been weakened.

[LibWhacker]

Wife says the change in blood type is new to her, but chimera, where a patient’s immune system adjusts to a new liver and the patient gets to go off his anti-rejection meds permanently, is not uncommon.

[Savage Beast]

Anybody know what her blood type changed from and to?

[airborne]

I had a bone marrow transplant on November 26, 1991.

My blood type changed from O positive to O negative.

16+ years cancer free!!

[ninonitti]

This is very hard to believe, unless it’s a miracle

Check anything by Bruce Lipton PhD or Candance Pert Phd......pretty interesting stuff indeed.

[NonValueAdded]

Ooh ooh ooh ... neat screenplay alert. Man receives a liver transplant from an organ donor. Unbeknown to the recipient, the organs were harvested from a death row prisoner after his execution. Fast forward a few years. the recovered recipient submits a DNA sample for some benign purpose but it is red-flagged as matching an unsolved rape-murder. Hilarity ensues.

Far fetched? Maybe not so after all.

[CarrotAndStick]

Wow, congrats!

[Centurion2000]

Apparently, the immune system can be reprogrammed

you gotta wonder if AIDS researchers will swipe a page from this and try immune system reprogramming for their disease research.

[stuartcr]

That would be great if it works.

[penowa]

Bless you and stay healthy. Wonderful!

[airborne]

Saved by a generous donor, wonderful doctors and the power of prayer!

[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 1/24/2008, thanks CarrotAndStick.

[mware]

After my brother had his liver transplant he asked the doctor if his DNA might change. The doctor looked kind of puzzled and said, you know, I don’t know.

[madison10]

I think that has been done...sort of. A person was a chimara. He/she offered different arm for testing of dna after he murdered someone/committed crime. Cannot tell you the show.

[Trillian]

That is pretty interesting.