Hagman Released After Transplant
Actor Larry Hagman was released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, nine days after undergoing a 15-hour liver transplant.
The upper Ojai Valley resident, who played J. R. Ewing on the popular nighttime soap opera “Dallas” and Air Force Capt. Tony Nelson on the sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie,” was released about 6 a.m. Saturday in good condition, hospital officials said.
Hagman, 63, was suffering from severe cirrhosis of the liver caused by years of hard drinking and probably had less than six months to live before the transplant, hospital officials said.
He also suffered from a small malignant tumor on his liver, but the condition had been treated on a previous hospital stay and was not as serious as the cirrhosis, according to doctors.
Hagman has been active in Ventura County affairs, particularly in leading an unsuccessful fight against a National Weather Service radar tower built on Ojai’s Sulphur Mountain near his 30-acre ranch.
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