> Instead, my surgeon pioneered the idea of transplanting Hepatitis C infected livers into patients who needed transplant because of HepC-driven liver failure.

> Instead, my surgeon pioneered the idea of transplanting Hepatitis C infected livers into patients who needed transplant because of HepC-driven liver failure. His idea was that young people recently infected with HepC who die tragically are often in otherwise excellent health (HepC is a slowly progressing disease) and make good donors. This idea saved my father's life. He wouldn't have normally qualified for a "perfect" liver, but was able to receive one that already had the same strain of Hep C, and if memory serves was also slightly fatty.