21.   Her heart rested in a bowl while the team of cardiac surgeons worked on it.

22.   Kim Reggis is a top cardiac surgeon whose busy career has resulted in a divorce.

23.   The team of cardiac surgeons at the Methodist DeBakey Heart Center had just six hours, the length of time a heart can survive out of the body.

24.   There are fewer bleeding complications and less pain, said ECU cardiac surgeon Dr. L. Wiley Nifong.

25.   Though extremely delicate, the surgery took only two hours, said cardiac surgeon Dr. Yakov Lavie, who headed the transplant team.

26.   Paediatric cardiac surgeon Kirstin Finucane said the body parts had been taken for research on defects.

27.   The operating team included five neurosurgeons, four plastic surgeons, four cardiac surgeons and four anaesthetists.