Hospital confirms Steve Jobs' liver transplant
HardwareHeaven.com —
... on Monday after a six-month medical leave, "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," according to a statement by Dr. James D. Eason, the program director of the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis. ...
Steve Jobs' liver transplant confirmed
Hardware 2.0 —
... The Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute has confirmed that Apple’s Steve Jobs did indeed undergo a liver transplant operation . 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 ...
Steve Jobs Liver Transplant Confirmed by Tennessee Transplant Center
Tech-Ex —
I haven't been as sick as Steve Jobs was, but the dearth of stories from this site have been because a) I threw out my back, b) I also got the flu. I am barely functional now. At any rate, back to Steve Jobs. The Wall Street Journal reported last weekend that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a liver transplant, and that has now been confirmed by the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in a short press release. James D. Eason, M.D., program director at 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 ...

