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Very short summary of another Italian article [1]:

The child is 6. She's needed dialysis since she was born. She never drank water, to prevent problems.

There was an unsuccessful transplant in 2014, because of the immune response.

They couldn't risk another transplant using the blood vessels of the kidneys. She was also at risk of not being able to keep doing dialysis because of the problems to those blood vessels. Because of all of that, they decided to remove the spleen and use its blood vessels for the new kidney. She urinates normally now and she can drink water.

I couldn't find information about the issues with the blood-type mismatch.

[1] http://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2016/12/14/news/torino_t...