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.
They found a genetic mutation that seemed to indicate a bone marrow transplant was necessary.
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The transplant process involves the complex preparation of islets extracted from a deceased donor's pancreas.
In 2011 she added a center for advanced therapeutics with a bone marrow transplant unit.
The transplant is used to get the patient past the critical stage of the illness.
In the study, the transplant was no longer needed in seven out of 11 patients.
Then it was stopped and the leukaemia got aggressive and the transplant was the last resort.
Sometimes a good notion is nothing more than the transplant of an old idea.
For instance it would mean that transplant surgery could take place in daylight hours.
The best way to achieve good survival statistics of course is to transplant the healthiest candidates.
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"The Chinese medical system makes money through transplant tourism, " says Nancy Scheper-Hughes of Organs Watch.
He had a liver transplant in 1992 but was photographed drinking several months later.
Many medical ethicists, moreover, mutter that allowing commerce to enter the transplant arena is immoral.
The doctors examined the patient's history, motivation and ability to understand the risks of the transplant.
It was then restored with a stem-cell transplant from a patient with the mutation.
The surgeon is planning to perform a double hand transplant on a British patient.
The majority of patients are happy to carry on a normal life without having a transplant.
She will "miss a chunk of time" when she has her bone marrow transplant, she said.
Eventually, my father ran a mail-order pharmacy, and my mother became a bone marrow transplant nurse.
In 2003 a new transplant co-ordinator was appointed and the change has been quite remarkable.
Maxine came in with her dad on the day of Zoe's bone marrow transplant.
Finally, in May, three months after the transplant, Zoe's marrow was 100% her sister's.
But the thorny bush took a lot of time and effort to transplant and grow.
Consolidation chemotherapy is a less intensive post-remission maintenance therapy than a stem cell transplant.
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One other patient died of a pulmonary embolism two months after a bone-marrow transplant.
His father says he knows that the transplant issue is a difficult one for families.
The organs were offered for transplant by LifeQuest Organ Recovery Services of Gainesville, Fla.
But he said he would welcome anyone taking "the first step" towards transplant operations.
Three months after their transplant, the patients were weaned off the anti-rejection drug cyclosporine.
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