[FONT="]Former NFL linebacker, television analyst and front office executive Matt Millen is getting a wonderful gift this Christmas: a new heart.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Via NBC Sports’ Peter King, Millen was wheeled into surgery around 1 a.m. ET Monday at Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Hospital for his transplant; around 8 a.m. ET, King offered an update, writing that Millen was out of surgery and in recovery.[/FONT]
[h=2]‘A perfect match’[/h][FONT="]The 60-year-old Millen was at Newark Beth Israel for three months waiting for a match; he has a rare condition called amyloidosis, which produces clumps of protein that was attacking the lining of his heart. It proves to be fatal within a matter of months for many of those who have it.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Millen’s wife, Pat, texted King from the hospital after Matt was wheeled out of the operating room. “Doctors said the heart was a perfect match and he is doing well,” she wrote. “The surgery went smoothly.”[/FONT]
[FONT="]Via NBC Sports’ Peter King, Millen was wheeled into surgery around 1 a.m. ET Monday at Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Hospital for his transplant; around 8 a.m. ET, King offered an update, writing that Millen was out of surgery and in recovery.[/FONT]
[h=2]‘A perfect match’[/h][FONT="]The 60-year-old Millen was at Newark Beth Israel for three months waiting for a match; he has a rare condition called amyloidosis, which produces clumps of protein that was attacking the lining of his heart. It proves to be fatal within a matter of months for many of those who have it.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Millen’s wife, Pat, texted King from the hospital after Matt was wheeled out of the operating room. “Doctors said the heart was a perfect match and he is doing well,” she wrote. “The surgery went smoothly.”[/FONT]
