For some patients who are small, it is possible to use part of the lungs from two live donors, usually relatives.

In a sense, the expanding use of live donors is a vast scientific and social experiment.

Some doctors are reluctant as a matter of principle to take organs from live donors.

Around the world, more than 1,500 pediatric operations with live donors have been done.

No person can sell his organs as a live donor.

It helped that she had a live donor and "a love for life," he said.

Before, we had 25 live donors at this center per year.

In France however at the time, donations from live donors were acceptable, providing no money was involved.

And the procedure is limited to small children, because not enough of the organ can be taken from a live donor to save an adult.

"We need novel strategies to make optimal use of live donors," he said.