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Report: Ex-Lions GM Matt Millen needs heart transplant 'fairly soon'

Former Detroit Lions executive Matt Millen is entering his third month of an extended stay in a New Jersey hospital, as he waits for a heart transplant.

NBC Sports' Peter King made the revelation in his weekly column Monday, saying Millen needs a heart transplant "fairly soon."

Millen suffers from a disease called amyloidosis.

On Monday, King wrote, in part:

"On Friday, I spent a couple of hours with Matt Millen in a hospital in New Jersey. He’s been there so long he knows the names of every nurse on the floor.