1.   Except for a loose association of medical groups that shared tips on available organs, there was no organized way to find a healthy infant liver for their daughter.

2.   HepAssist is a plasma circuit designed to provide patients with many of the essential metabolic functions of a healthy liver.

3.   Healthy livers are in such short supply that hundreds of people die each year awaiting a transplant, experts note.

4.   Hospital officials would not release any information about the donor of the liver other than to say it was a patient elsewhere who had died with a healthy liver.

5.   Jane had to wait for someone with the right blood type, a healthy liver and a donor card to die in Northern California.

6.   One week later, after a series of chilling coincidences, a healthy infant liver appeared.

7.   Total removal of the diseased liver and transplantation of a healthy liver was the only option.

8.   The transplants are common in Europe, where they are used to help critically ill patients who might not survive the long waits for a healthy liver.

9.   Without the new livers, neither women would have lived more than about six months and would not have survived the wait for a healthy liver, doctors said.