My Sister's Keeper: How a little girl was conceived to save her older sibling's life after she developed an 極端に rare 条件 and needed a world-first 3倍になる 組織/臓器 移植(する)

  • Sara Miller, from Western Australia, was 診断するd?with a rare 免疫の 条件
  • She was in need of a bone 骨髄 移植(する) but there was no match in family
  • Her sister was conceived so she could be a 寄贈者?
  • Cheyann Miller, 11, said she will always have a special 社債 with her older sibling?

Cheyann Miller wasn't just conceived to play with her older sister Sara - she was born to save her life.

Sara, from Western Australia, was 診断するd at age 12 with aplastic anaemia - a 潜在的に life-脅すing disorder in which the 免疫の system attacks itself.?

The 条件 妨げるs the 団体/死体 from producing enough 血 独房s - and the only cure is a bone 骨髄 移植(する) but with no family member a match her parents decided to have another child.

Cheyann was born and doctors すぐに collected four 捕らえる、獲得するs of her umbilical cord 血 in the hope of saving her sister's life.

The sisters described their amazing journey of survival after Sara made a remarkable recovery following a world-first triple transplant

The sisters 述べるd their amazing 旅行 of 生き残り after Sara made a remarkable 回復 に引き続いて a world-first 3倍になる 移植(する)

What is?aplastic anaemia?

Aplastic anaemia is a rare disorder in which the bone 骨髄 fails to produce enough 血 独房s.

The 条件 is not a malignant 病気 but it can be very serious, 特に if the bone 骨髄 is 厳しく 影響する/感情d and there are very few 血 独房s left in 循環/発行部数.

ありふれた symptoms 含む:

  • Anaemia 予定 to a 欠如(する) of red 独房s, 原因(となる)ing 執拗な tiredness, dizziness, paleness, or shortness of breath when 肉体的に active?
  • たびたび(訪れる) or repeated 感染s and slow 傷をいやす/和解させるing, 予定 to a 欠如(する) of normal white 独房s?
  • 増加するd or unexplained bleeding or bruising, 予定 to a very low platelet count

Source: Leukaemia 創立/基礎

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One 捕らえる、獲得する of 血 was used for 研究, two for 匿名の/不明の 受取人s and one for Sara, now 27.

'When I was told about it, it was pretty surprising. I always thought I was born because my parents 手配中の,お尋ね者 another child,' Cheyann, now 老年の 11, told Today Tonight.??

'When I was told about it, it was pretty surprising. I always thought I was born because my parents 手配中の,お尋ね者 another child,' Cheyann, now 老年の 11, told Today Tonight.?

'It's pretty insane but it's nice to know I've made my 示す on the world.'

After を受けるing three bone 骨髄 移植(する)s from three different 寄贈者s, 含むing her sister, Sara, unfortunately, needed more life-saving 治療.

She underwent an 緊急の 腎臓 移植(する), which she received from her father, followed by a 二塁打 肺 移植(する).

'It was really hard knowing that she was going into a 外科 where she could have died,' Cheyann said, as she broke 負かす/撃墜する in 涙/ほころびs.

Sara Miller (left)?with an extremely rare immune condition has reveal
ed how her little sister Cheyann (right) was born just so she could save her life (pictured undergoing a transplant)

Sara Miller (left)?with an 極端に rare 免疫の 条件 has 明らかにする/漏らすd how her little sister Cheyann (権利) was born just so she could save her life (pictured を受けるing a 移植(する))

Sara made a remarkable 回復 に引き続いて a world-first 3倍になる 移植(する) and now 株 a special 社債 with her sister?Cheyann.

'We have a very の近くに 社債,' Sara said told Sunrise.

Cheyann said saving her older sister was a 'very special' moment in her life.

'It was very 冷静な/正味の to know that I was helping my sister,' she said.

にもかかわらず 反抗するing 半端物s of 生き残り, Sara has been 攻撃する,衝突する with another 後退 after she was 診断するd with?osteoporosis - a 条件 in which bones become weak and brittle.

Sara said she's been receiving a needle 治療 every six months to 妨げる her bones from 悪化するing.

'There's nothing really that we can do to try and 妨げる my bones from getting any worse. This needle just 基本的に 持つ/拘留するs it 安定した,' she said.

'I need a hip 交替/補充 at the age of 30. It's just 基本的に have that needle every six months, keep taking some tablets and just keep an 注目する,もくろむ on it.'

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