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This is a story of a life-saving form of recycling. It's about two men who've never met, but who have something very personal in common. One of them needed a new heart and liver because of a disease called familial amyloidosis. When it came time for the transplant he gave his diseased liver to someone else. How can a liver that doesn't work for one man be the gift of life for another?
Resource: Liver Transplant at Mayo Clinic
Johnny Aguire contracted hepatitis C from an unknown cause. The disease slowly caused severe cirrhosis. Aguire was very, very ill. After three days on the liver transplant list, Aguire received the gift of life.
Resource: Treatment with Liver Transplantation