Word: atresia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Ashley Bailey, 14 months; of biliary atresia, a liver disease; in Fort Worth. In a July radio address, President Reagan appealed for a liver-transplant donor for Ashley. More than 5,000 phone calls resulted, but no compatible liver could be located for the infant. Reagan's appeal, however, has been credited with finding seven donors for other needy patients...
...common with three-year-old Justine Pinheiro, and that disappeared on an operating table in Minneapolis. On Nov. 5 the baby daughter of Charles and Marilyn Fiske of Bridgewater, Mass., underwent six hours of surgery that gave her a new liver and a good chance to recover from biliary atresia, a congenital liver defect that generally leads to death before the age of four. Justine Pinheiro is still waiting for a transplant to give her the same chance. The disparity in their fates raises one of the thorniest ethical questions facing modern medicine...