The liver transplant center at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School is one of just two such units in the state
Mati Muñoz is 65 years old – filled with the enthusiastic energy that comes with a second chance at life. A decade ago, says Muñoz, who lives in Woodbridge Township, N.J., her liver was being destroyed by hepatitis C, a viral disease she believes she contracted as a girl in her native Cuba from a poorly sterilized needle used in a medical procedure.
“My coworkers said I looked like a ghost,” Muñoz recalls. Her symptoms included insomnia, depression, bloating, nausea – and an especially nasty decline in mental function caused by blood toxins that were degrading her brain.
Muñoz went on a registry to receive a liver transplant and over the next two years her symptoms intensified as she waited for a suitable donor.
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