| News From Transplant Week of Jan. 5, 2003 / Vol. 4 No. 01 |
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3 1/2-Month-Old Florida Girl Undergoes Third Liver Transplant |
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A 3 1/2-month-old Florida girl has undergone a third liver transplant in just over a month at Shands Hospital in Gainesville. Brooke Ashley Compher was reportedly holding her own after the most recent five-hour surgery. The child's ordeal began in November, when it was determined that a bacterial infection that still has not been identified was destroying her liver. The first transplant took place on Thanksgiving, when Brooke received a cadaver liver from a pediatric donor. Then just before Christmas, the same infection that destroyed her own liver attacked the transplanted liver. The day after Christmas, she received a portion of an adult liver. However, an artery in that liver did not work properly, necessitating the third transplant, according to doctors.Other
sources: Orlando Sentinel
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