Mike Davis, a Towson land-use attorney and top aide to former County Executive Dutch Ruppersberger, died March 5 at Johns Hopkins Hospital of complications related to his July 6 emergency liver transplant.
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Mike Davis, Towson land-use attorney and former top aide to one-time County Executive C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, continues to battle infections and complications related to an emergency liver transplant he underwent in July.
Today there are grim reports about Davis’ condition. (more…)
Quick update on Mike Davis.
The Towson land-use attorney and former top aide to one-time County Executive C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger is back in the hospital battling an infection in his chest.
Davis underwent an emergency liver transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital on July 5. He came home later that month. Recently he had even taken up e-mailing friends from his PDA.
Ann Davis, Mike’s wife, tells me in an e-mail that a leak in a bile duct allowed fluid to build up around one of his lungs. Then he picked up an infection that made a home in the same area.
“So, it is specific to Michael’s case,” Ann Davis wrote. “However, it still falls within the general thought that being a transplant patient, he is very susceptible to infections. There seems to be a general range of events during the recovery of transplant patients, but individual recovery and setbacks can greatly vary. Michael has the unique ability to thrive where other patients would have failed much sooner.”
Mike Davis is back in the hospital after having to undergo additional surgery to correct a leak in a duct in his new liver.
Davis, a county land-use attorney and former top aide to then County Executive Dutch Ruppersberger, underwent an emergency liver transplant on July 5. He came home later that month.
Ann Davis, Mike’s wife, tells me in an e-mail that her husband was home for about a week before having to go back to Johns Hopkins Hospital.
“There was a leak in one of the connections from old to new duct,” Davis wrote me. “He had to undergo another operation where the doctors basically created a bypass so the liver can drain directly into the intestine. Because of the leak, bile went into Michael’s chest causing not only a lung to collapse and pressure on his heart, but an infection.”
Doctors are continuing to watch the fluid in his chest and monitor for residual infection.
Ann said her husband watched the entire Olympics from his hospital bed.
“Needless to say, Michael is going stir crazy now,” she wrote. “Michael loves the care that he is receiving, but he can’t wait to really get started on recovery at home.”
“He has hit some bumps in the road, but he is improving.”
It appears that Mike Davis, a county land-use attorney and former top aide to then County Executive Dutch Ruppersberger, is making big strides in his recovery from an emergency liver transplant. (You can read that post here.)
Ann Davis, Mike’s wife, wrote in an e-mail that her husband has been moved to a private room. He could come home as soon as July 21, just two weeks after his life-saving surgery.
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.