A girl kept alive for 10 years by monthly blood transfusions has had a life-saving stem cell transplant after finding her genetic twin.
Chloe Gray, a schoolgirl in Sunderland, was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder called Diamond Blackfan Anaemia while she was still in her mother’s womb, according to Chronicle Live.
Doctors said she only had ten hours to live. She had two emergency blood transfusions before she had even been born, and had a full blood exchange when she was born five weeks early.
Chloe was kept alive by monthly blood transfusions until she was seven, when the family was told only a transplant could save her.
Chloe’s search for a match started in 2017. Her three siblings Tye, 15, Millie, 14, and Freddie aged six, were all tested but none of them had a matching tissue type.
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