Apple’s Jobs had a liver transplant
APPLE chief executive Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant at a Tennessee hospital and has “an excellent prognosis”, the hospital that performed the operation has confirmed.
Jobs, 54, received the transplant because he was “the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available,” the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute said.
“Jobs is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis,” the hospital said. James Eason, program director at the institute and the hospital’s chief of transplantation, added that the confirmation had come with Jobs’s permission.
The hospital did not release details of Job’s condition or when the operation was performed, but it is thought the transplant took place about two months ago.
Apple shares have often fluctuated on speculation about Jobs’ health. The executive, considered by many investors to be the driving force behind Apple’s reputation for innovation, was treated in 2004 for a rare form of pancreatic cancer called a neuroendocrine tumor.