11.   Fifteen thousand might have been transplant patients.

12.   For kidney- transplant patients, particularly those undergoing debilitating dialysis several times a week, a new organ can make a dramatic difference.

13.   He had to take large doses of steroids to negate a slight case of rejection, which doctors said occurs in approximately two-thirds of liver transplant patients.

14.   He has suggested the creation of a national registry to track diseases that might crop up in transplant patients.

15.   He has assisted a presidential commission grappling with the definition of death, as well as a federal agency studying how best to allocate livers for transplant patients.

16.   He then drew up individual lifting programs for each transplant patient.

17.   He said most transplant patients return to a normal lifestyle.

18.   If that bill were to pass, it would take away one worry for thousands of transplant patients.

19.   In once recent case, a liver transplant patient who had suffered a stroke had nearly exhausted his rehabilitation benefits.

20.   In some cases, physicians are using the same type of anti-rejection medications used in transplant patients to try to prevent the immune system from attacking the muscles.