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...pale and gaunt Mickey Mantle made his first public appearance today since a liver transplant a month ago, with this warning for kids: "You talk about a role model, this is a role model: Don't be like me." The Yankee great, whose 40 years of hard drinking helped destroy his health, has dropped 40 pounds, and has a 60 percent chance of living five more years. "God gave me the ability to play baseball and I wasted it," he said. "I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to make up. I want to start giving...
UNDER TREATMENT. MICKEY MANTLE, 63, baseball legend; for "light rejection" of his recently acquired liver transplant; in Dallas. Doctors put the beloved former Yankee on steroids and say his prognosis is still good...
Mickey Mantle is back at Baylor University Medical Center, being treated for some signs of liver rejection. Doctors are giving him strong doses of steroids to combat his immune system's rejectionof the new organ.The reaction occurs in about 65 percent of liver transplant recipients, officials say, and drug treatment usually takes care of the problem...
Doctors say Mickey Mantle is doing "remarkably well" after undergoing a second operation to stop bleeding around his newly transplanted liver . A hospital spokeswoman said such bleeding sometimes occurs in transplant cases and does not mean the body is rejecting the organ, which seems to be functioning well. Mantle, who was expected to be out of bed and moving around a bit by the end of the day, remains at Baylor Medical Center in critical but stable condition and could return home in two to three weeks...
Mickey Mantle is recovering from liver transplant surgeryearly this morning. Theformer Yankee great, 63, received the organ just two days after doctors at Baylor University hospital decided that his advanced liver cancer, complicated by hepatitis, would soon kill him otherwise. Physicians insisted that Mantle's age and deteriorating condition -- not his fame -- put him at the top on the waiting list when they found a new liver Wednesday night. "A lot of people were suspicious of this--last night we'd heard it could be three or four weeks, and now today he has the new liver," says TIME Dallas...