Postby MK » Thu May 26, 2005 10:26 am
Well, at least Daniels took a closer look at the issue, but two doctors told him the liver wasn't so ideal after all. On the upside, they say the sister will get a liver in twenty days once she's on the waiting list:
"[Daniels] released a letter from two experts at Indiana University Hospital's transplant center which said Johnson's liver was not a good match for his sister, 48-year-old Deborah Otis. The letter said Johnson has Hepatitis B and large body weight, making his liver less desirable, and his sister in any case needs a full rather than partial transplant, along with a kidney from the same donor, to survive.
"Her organ is afflicted with nonalcoholic cirrhosis, though she is not currently on a transplant waiting list because of a temporary medical complication.
"The letter Daniels released said Otis would likely get a liver and kidney within 20 days once she went on a waiting list.
"Transplant requests from death row prisoners in the United States have occurred before, though they are unusual, according to Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
"In a 1995 Delaware case a condemned man donated a kidney to his mother, and returned to death row. In Alabama, a prisoner awaiting execution won permission for an organ donation, but he was not a correct match, Dieter said.
"In a Florida case, an inmate was denied a request to donate a kidney to his brother. The condemned man was later exonerated and released from jail, but his brother died waiting for a transplant, Dieter said."
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