1.   Finding a liver donor May be difficult.

2.   Aside from the liver donor who died in the United States, several others are reported to have died in Europe.

3.   At one hospital, when a young man offered to be a liver donor for his mother, surgeons rejected him because he had a baby.

4.   Before a suitable liver donor was found in June, Mantle came within perhaps a few days of dying.

5.   A liver donor was found and transplanted.

6.   A second patient had been brought to the hospital and prepared to receive the donor liver in case more tumors were found in Mantle.

7.   Even before Hurewitz died, the government had begun taking steps to find out more about liver donors and their recipients.

8.   Her complications were precisely the ones that surgeons warn people about when they agree to become liver donors.

9.   His was the only documented death of a healthy liver donor until earlier this year.

10.   Hoofnagle said that others had tried to create registries to track liver donors, but that hospitals had not submitted information.