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Article: Liver recipient gets nut allergy from transplant
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- AP Worldstream
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- January 27, 2003
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Dateline: CHICAGO
A man who received a liver transplant got a life-threatening nut allergy
from the new organ, Australian doctors say.
The organ had come from a 15-year-old boy who died of an allergic
reaction to peanuts, the doctors reported in Monday's Archives of
Internal Medicine.
Dr. Tri Giang Phan, an immunology specialist at Sydney's Royal Prince
Alfred Hospital who was involved in the case, said he knew of only
one other report in medical literature of an allergy being passed
on in an organ transplant. That incident, reported by French doctors
in 1997, involved a man who developed a peanut allergy after a liver
and kidney transplant.
While such cases may be ...