1.   Critically ill patients such as Lucky normally receive transplanted livers from a parent.

2.   Because the wait is so long, about one out of every five people in need of a transplant dies before receiving a liver.

3.   A transplant specialist said in August that Ray would die within six months if he did not receive a new liver.

4.   Did Mickey Mantle receive a liver that should have gone to some lesser known but more deserving soul?

5.   His family has not been told who received his liver, doctors said, but they might be able to guess.

6.   Liver transplant patients are usually severely debilitated by the time they receive new livers, making recuperation from the operation slow and difficult.

7.   Many receive livers from their parents or other relatives.

8.   The changes would require that transplant officials no longer consider the length of time a patient has been on a waiting list in determining who receives a liver.

9.   Doctors had said earlier that Mantle was on a list to receive a liver within three to four weeks.

10.   The former ballplayer is on a list to receive a liver within three to four weeks, Goldstein said.