Michael Jackson is gravely ill and needs an emergency lung transplant if he is to survive, it has been reported.
Jackson’s biographer Ian Halperin has been quoted saying that the pop star is suffering from a fatal inherited diease that has left him increasingly frail.
Mr Halperin was quoted in the Sun saying: “He needs a lung transplant, but may be too weak to go through with it. He also has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping.
“It’s the bleeding that’s the most problematic part. It could kill him.”
Mr Halperin alleged Jackson, 50, had developed an alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency, in which sufferers lack a protein that protects the lungs. Treatment includes a lung transplant.
He also claimed Jackson, who was photographed in a wheelchair earlier this year, had been battling the diease for several years.
“He can barely speak. The vision in his left eye is 95 per cent gone.
“For years Michael has been working with his doctors to make sure it doesn’t progress.
“He has been on many medications that have stabilised him.”
Jackson’s brother Jermaine told the paper: “He’s not doing so well right now. This isn’t a good time.”
SOURCE: Telegraph.Co.UK
Jackson’s biographer Ian Halperin has been quoted saying that the pop star is suffering from a fatal inherited diease that has left him increasingly frail.
Mr Halperin was quoted in the Sun saying: “He needs a lung transplant, but may be too weak to go through with it. He also has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping.
“It’s the bleeding that’s the most problematic part. It could kill him.”
Mr Halperin alleged Jackson, 50, had developed an alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency, in which sufferers lack a protein that protects the lungs. Treatment includes a lung transplant.
He also claimed Jackson, who was photographed in a wheelchair earlier this year, had been battling the diease for several years.
“He can barely speak. The vision in his left eye is 95 per cent gone.
“For years Michael has been working with his doctors to make sure it doesn’t progress.
“He has been on many medications that have stabilised him.”
Jackson’s brother Jermaine told the paper: “He’s not doing so well right now. This isn’t a good time.”
SOURCE: Telegraph.Co.UK
