Jobs Okays Announcement Confirming Liver Transplant
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has signed off on a press release confirming that, as has been reported in the Wall Street Journal in recent days, he had a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee.
In making the announcement, James D. Eason, M.D., program director at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute and chief of transplantation, didn't say when Jobs had the operation.
"(Jobs) received a liver transplant because he was the patient with the highest MELD score (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease) of his blood type and, therefore, the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available," said Dr. Eason, adding, "Mr. Jobs is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis."
The Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute performed 120 liver transplants in 2008 making it one of the ten largest liver transplant centers in the United States, said Eason.
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