{"id":1884,"date":"2012-03-30T04:02:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:54:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:54:22","slug":"fletcher-mcloughlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/fletcher-mcloughlan\/","title":{"rendered":"A worldwide search for Fletcher&#8217;s donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1885\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/03\/30\/fletcher-mcloughlan\/905311-fletcher\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1885\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1885\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/905311-fletcher-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Fletcher McLoughlan. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A bone marrow transplant from an overseas donor cured Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH)\u00a0patient Fletcher McLoughlan\u2019s rare immune deficiency condition\u00a0known as Wiskott-Aldridge syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Five-year-old Fletcher had his transplant in 2010, spending time in intensive care and in isolation at the RCH. He then spent six months at home in isolation.<\/p>\n<p>RCH bone marrow transplant physician Dr Karin Tiedemann said children with Wiskott-Aldridge syndrome was so rare, only one new case arose every couple of years in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s an amazing child. I kept wondering how he would cope being in isolation, but he was very resilient, and Thomas the tank engine helped a lot,&#8221; Dr Tiedemann said. &#8220;He&#8217;s been a spirited little lad ever since.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fletcher McLoughlan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/fletcher-has-a-marrow-escape-after-long-search-for-a-donor\/story-e6frf7jo-1226313920478\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bone marrow transplant from an overseas donor cured Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) patient Fletcher McLoughlan\u2019s rare immune deficiency condition known as Wiskott-Aldridge syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4963,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}