Hospital confirms Steve Jobs transplant
Summary: The hospital where Steve Jobs received a liver transplant issued a press release tonight, confirming - with Jobs permission - the transplant. The hospital said Jobs received the transplant because was the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available.
The hospital where Steve Jobs received a liver transplant issued a press release tonight, confirming - with Jobs permission - the transplant. The hospital said Jobs received the transplant because was the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available. But more importantly, the statement noted that Jobs is "recovering well and has an excellent prognosis."
It was widely reported that Jobs returned to work at Apple's Cupertino, Calif. headquarters this week.
The full statement reads:
James D. Eason, M.D., program director at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute and chief of transplantation confirmed today, with the patient's permission, that Steve Jobs received a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in partnership with the University of Tennessee in Memphis.
Mr. Jobs underwent a complete transplant evaluation and was listed for transplantation for an approved indication in accordance with the Transplant Institute policies and United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) policies.
He 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. 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. We provide transplants to patients regardless of race, sex, age, financial status, or place of residence. Our one year patient and graft survival rates are among the best in the nation and were a dominant reason in Mr. Jobs’s choice of transplant centers. We respect and protect every patient's private health information and cannot reveal any further information on the specifics of Mr. Jobs's case.
Also see: Jobs recovering from liver transplant; re-ignites debate over privacy rights
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This is news?
It is when...
"He 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."
And also when people wish to know what his future may be.
"Mr. Jobs is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis."
The whole class envy based argument is moot anyway
donors going through the tissue matching process (it's pretty extensive)
when the organ became available. That's how it happened with my
nephew. The live donor was going through the final series of tests for a
tissue match when the liver from a 20-year old woman killed in an auto
accident became available.
You also may not know that if an organ donor dies, the next of kin can
specifically pick who receives the organs if they want to.
Why are people "compaining" Job's may have "bought" his new liver.
Oh, that's disgusting.
Nope, it's Economics 101.
You misunderstand.
My revulsion is that the tone of your post sounds as if you think it's OK.
RE: Hospital confirms Steve Jobs transplant
These operations are complicated and difficould.
But i read alot about it and there is alot more succes latest years.
grtz
RE: Hospital confirms Steve Jobs transplant
He certainly hedged his bets
RE: Hospital confirms Steve Jobs transplant
It's not fair to give an organ to a non-donor as long as there is a donor who needs it. But about 50% of the organs transplanted in the United States go to people who haven't agreed to donate their own organs when they die. It's no wonder there's such a large organ shortage. If organs were allocated first to organ donors, more people would agree to donate and fewer people would die waiting for transplants.
Anyone who would like to donate their organs to other organ donors can join LifeSharers at www.lifesharers.org or by calling 1-888-ORGAN88. Membership is free. There is no age limit, parents can enroll their minor children, and no one is excluded due to any pre-existing medical condition.
Likely he is now...