The Nation - News from April 26, 1987

Ronnie DeSillers, the 7-year-old Florida boy whose plight drew moral and financial support from President Reagan, was in line for another donor liver just two days after his third transplant operation, officials of Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa., said. Doctors there said they were not satisfied with the functioning of the liver implanted Thursday, and, as a precaution, had placed the child’s name on the waiting list for what would be a fourth replacement. Sue Cardillo of the hospital staff said, however, that there was still hope for the most recent transplant.