Two men are recovering this week at UW Hospital after surgeons there performed the state’s first domino transplant, an organ-switching procedure that has only been done 100 times since 1996.
Joe Stoikes, a Madison cabinet maker, needed a new liver because he was suffering from familial amyloid polyneuropathy, or FAP, a potentially fatal rare genetic condition in which amyloid protein builds up in the liver, intestines, nerves and heart.