Parents seeking liver donor to save 3-year-old twins

The problem is that their father, Michael Wagner, can donate to only one of the pair.

Wagner and his wife, Johanne, have taken their search for a second donor to social media, establishing a Facebook page, Liver Transplants for our Vietnamese Twin Girls, which has garnered more than 5,000 likes as of Monday afternoon. The Kingston, Ontario, couple also has a blog, One More Potato in the Pot, about their lives with nine children, four of whom are adopted.

“We need people to come forward, people who are willing to be assessed to be live liver donors,” Johanne Wagner told CBC News on Sunday. “Things could turn around very quickly on us, and their condition could get worse.”

The twins were adopted from Vietnam in November 2012, when they were 18 months old. The pair are afflicted with Alagille syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes liver damage because of bile duct abnormalities, according to the National Institutes of Health’s Genetics Home Reference.

In the meantime, the Wagners and the girls’ doctors are monitoring the situation.

If things take a turn for the worse, the twins’ doctor Dr. Binita Kamath told CBC News, the girl who will receive Michael Wagner’s liver will be chosen based on immediate need.

“I think we will make the decision based on facts and keep it as dispassionate as possible,” she said. “We feel comfortable making this decision.”

CNN