To survive, he says, companies must undergo a transplant of corporate DNA, and few survive the surgery.
It's the role of family and friends in deciding whether a transplant should go ahead.
The majority of patients are happy to carry on a normal life without having a transplant.
Doctors have told Mrs Berger she needs a transplant within the next five weeks to survive.
The local specialist aggressively tried to push me into a transplant that I did not need.
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But 80% of patients can't find a suitable donor or are too old to risk a transplant.
He was desperately in need of a transplant, and he spent much of his time in hospital.
It causes devastating damage to the lungs and eventually a transplant is sometimes the only means of survival.
She can no longer compete officially at the British Transplant Games because she no longer has a transplant.
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People who need a transplant because of acute liver failure are seriously ill.
Thanks to screening of organ donors for HIV, the chance of contracting the virus from a transplant is remote.
He said every year there were about 20 patients waiting for a transplant.
He developed kidney disease in the 1990s and had a transplant in 2001.
He ultimately received a transplant and returned back to Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), only to leave again earlier this year.
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The fifth patient, who wasn't a candidate for a transplant, relapsed after 90 days and eventually died, Dr. Brentjens said.
Doctors say she needs a transplant within five weeks to survive and the best match would be an Ashkenazi Jew.
James, 28, needed a transplant after suffering a series of severe lung infections in his late teens and early twenties.
Christian got a transplant kidney from his father, Gene, when he was a toddler, but that failed in eight months.
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He developed liver cirrhosis and was told last year that without a transplant he might have about 18 months to live.
Pat Riley, who chairs the Charlotte Chamber and is president of the Carolinas' largest real estate firm, is also a transplant.
There was no evidence he had arranged a transplant, the investigators said.
She has been prepped and ready for a transplant on two occasions, only to find that the donor organs weren't of sufficient quality.
Robert Elms, a transplant surgeon at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, believes the principle of compensation would be more acceptable to many than payment.
There are now over 115, 000 people on the National Transplant Waiting List, with over 50% of these people dying before they get a transplant.
Jobs simply listed with a transplant center in a region in which he'd have a chance of getting a new liver before he died.
The former director of TV station BNN, Bart de Graaff, died from kidney failure aged 35 after spending years on a transplant waiting list.
He may also be able to identify those for whom a transplant is so likely to fail that it should not even be attempted.
German media report that 38 patients with liver problems were falsely listed as dialysis cases in order to shorten their wait for a transplant.
Last year, 34 people died waiting for a transplant in Scotland.
"However, the fact remains that, despite the great improvements in donation over recent years, people are still dying whilst waiting on a transplant, " he said.
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