NATION : Jamie Fiske, Who Got New Liver After Public Appeals, Loses Spleen
Seven-year-old Jamie Fiske, who as an infant received a liver transplant after her father’s impassioned appeal for a donor, underwent surgery today to remove her spleen.
“She’s in the recovery room now doing very well,” Dr. John Najarian said after the three-hour operation at University of Minnesota Hospital. The girl was listed in critical but stable condition after the operation.
Najarian said the spleen was seven or eight times normal size for a child Jamie’s age. He also said her liver “is perfectly normal.”
It was the first surgery for Jamie since her 1982 liver transplant, which took place at the same hospital, said Jamie’s father, Charles Fiske of Bridgewater, Mass. At the time, she was one of the youngest liver transplant recipients.
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