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Show Texas girl has second liver transplant PITTSBURGH-An 8-year-old Texas girl was in critical condition Sunday following her second liver transplant operation in a week. Cassie McPherson of Seagoville, Texas received her new organ from a Kentucky donor in an operation Saturday. Satur-day. The first liver transplant into the girl came from a 3-year-old New York boy who suffocated in a Bronx fire. Doctors were forced to perform a second se-cond transplant because of complications complica-tions that developed during a 15-hour transplant operation that began Monday Mon-day and ended early Tuesday. The first operation took more than l.ooo stitches and 2U gallons of blood. |