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Article: Patient Gets Nut Allergy From Liver Transplant
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 28, 2003
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A man who received a liver transplant got a life-threatening nut
allergy from the new organ, Australian doctors said.
The organ had come from a 15-year-old boy who died of an allergic
reaction to peanuts, the doctors reported in today's Archives of
Internal Medicine.
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 rare, organ donors should be screened for ...