NAMES IN THE NEWS : Young Liver Patient Recovering
Stormie Jones, the world’s first heart-liver transplant recipient, remained in fair condition Monday two weeks after her second liver transplant.
Doctors said the 12-year-old girl’s condition was upgraded from serious to fair Sunday at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Stormie, of White Settlement, Tex., received a new heart and liver at Children’s on Feb. 14, 1984, to control a condition in which her cholesterol level was 10 times higher than normal.
Doctors decided to implant a new liver Feb. 20 after Stormie’s first transplanted liver was damaged by hepatitis caused by an unknown virus. Her donor heart was not affected by the disease.
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