Lobe Recipient Linda talks with Michael Griffith, a man who received a partial-liver transplant a month ago at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Because of the scarcity of organs for donation, doctors decided to transplant a lobe of a donor's liver as Griffith's condition worsened. Griffith is doing well...and so is the donor.

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Lobe Recipient

December 12, 199612:00 AM ET

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Linda talks with Michael Griffith, a man who received a partial-liver transplant a month ago at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Because of the scarcity of organs for donation, doctors decided to transplant a lobe of a donor's liver as Griffith's condition worsened. Griffith is doing well...and so is the donor.