Mike Davis recovering from emergency transplant

By Bryan P. Sears
Posted: July 11, 2008

Mike Davis, a well-known land use attorney in Baltimore County, is recovering from emergency liver transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Davis is a partner with Venable in Towson and was a top aide to former-County Executive Dutch Ruppersberger.

Ann Davis, Mike’s wife, said both she and Mike recently became ill with hepatitis A.

Hepatitis-A infections are fairly rare, occurring in about 1.2 people per 100,000 according to the Centers for Disease Control. Most people who are infected recover and are no longer infectious and cannot get the disease again. There are about 100 deaths a year related to the disease, according to the American Liver Foundation.

Ann became ill but recovered. Mike’s illness took a more severe turn.

On July 3, Mike went to a doctor who recommended he go to the hospital to receive intravenous fluids and have some blood tests. He was later admitted to GBMC.

“From then on, that’s when things went downhill,” Ann wrote in an e-mail to me. “Michael’s liver was shutting down, and his condition deteriorated by big margins every 12 hours.”

Mike was transfered to Hopkins on July 5, and a liver became available the next day.

Mike seems to be recovering well, according to e-mail updates sent by his wife.

As of yesterday, the breathing tube had been removed. He’s able to talk and watch television and has been asking for ice chips, and there’s the expectation that he will be able to start eating in the next day or so.

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