Word: alyssa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like some 150 other young children in the U.S., 21-month-old Alyssa Smith was waiting for a new liver, her one chance to avoid death at an early age. Her prospects did not look bright, since the supply of livers taken from cadavers and suitable for transplant is critically slim. But last week a team of surgeons at the University of Chicago Medical Center gave the little girl from Schertz, Texas, her chance to live. And what seemed truly miraculous about the operation was the source of Alyssa's new liver: her mother...
...both mother and daughter are doing well. Because the liver has the power to regenerate itself by forming new tissue, Teresa's liver should grow back to its normal size. Similarly, baby Alyssa's new liver should grow as she does...
HEALTH: For baby Alyssa, a gift of life...
...Alyssa O'Farrell...
Christine M. Hogan, English; Roong Pofhyananda and Alyssa F. Wolpin, both economics from Quincy; Mary C. Hallward, social studies and Hillary A. Zaid, English from Dunster...