A Georgia infant who was the smallest baby to ever receive a liver transplant died Monday five months after the surgery.

Hunter Dorsey weighed only 4 pounds, and was suffering from neonatal hemochromatosis, when he received the transplant on July 2nd at Egleston Children's Hospital at Emory University.

While his parents have volunteered to give the baby a piece of their livers, doctor's said adult livers are too developed -- as well as too large -- for use in an infant of that size.

Even when doctors sectioned off the left lobe of a cadaver liver from a 10-month-old child, it was still too large for the four-week-old baby, and part of it bulged outside following completion of the surgery.

Twice a week, for more than a month, doctors nudged more of the liver into Hunter until it was totally inside his body.

The cause of the infant's death was unknown, hospital spokeswoman Trudy Baker said. An autopsy was expected.