Amy Silverstein, a celebrated author who wrote about her life as a two-time heart transplant recipient and highlighted the need for better transplant care, shared a final call to arms two days before her death at the age of 59.
Ms Silverstein was in her twenties when she was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. She received her first heart transplant aged 25. Twenty-six years later, she was diagnosed with vasculopathy, a common condition for heart transplant recipients, and moved across the US to receive a second transplant.
