Maurice Aslizada died at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva Saturday night, five days after undergoing liver transplant surgery there.
Doctors said he succumbed to respiratory problems, a frequent complication after lengthy, complex surgery.
Aslizada, 46, was Israel’s third liver transplant patient and the third fatality. The two previous operations, performed at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, also failed.
But heart transplant patient Yehezkel Drucker is doing fine at Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Kerem. He was operated on Jan. 2. Also in good condition are a man and woman who received kidney transplants at Beilinson Hospital last Wednesday.
All of the organs transplanted last week came from a single donor, David Oren, who died in a traffic accident Jan. 2.
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