21.   At least one and possibly two donors have died during liver transplant surgery in the past decade, according to the American Liver Foundation.

22.   At that point, liver transplant is considered.

23.   At this writing, he awaits a liver transplant, but is otherwise in good health.

24.   At the time, he was recovering from a July liver transplant and had decided to step aside.

25.   Austin got his liver transplant in October.

26.   Because organs from cadavers are in short supply, live-donor liver transplants are increasing.

27.   Before then, adults in need of a liver transplant had to rely exclusively on donor organs from the recently deceased.

28.   Bludworth offered to donate part of his liver to a severely ill patient after reading about the success of using living donors for liver transplants.

29.   A founding member of the Grateful Dead, itself now defunct, not long ago he was on the verge of death, requiring a liver transplant to survive.

30.   A liver transplant saved his life.