1.   Artificial hearts will not be the treatment of choice for all cardiac patients, but they could add an important tool to the armamentarium of cardiologists.

2.   A cardiac patient claimed the book helped him recover.

3.   But they said that bupropion, unlike tricyclic antidepressants, did not appear to pose the threat of causing irregular heartbeats in cardiac patients.

4.   Cardiac patients who were not involved with such groups were three times as likely to die in the six months after surgery as those who did.

5.   Dr. Pierre Tibi, who is chief of surgery at Good Sam and who operates at other hospitals, said competition for cardiac patients is already brisk.

6.   Fire and EMS officials contend, though, that earlier responses to life-threatening emergencies may be helping cardiac patients.

7.   Firefighters or emergency medical technicians can reach a cardiac patient quickly and use a defibrillator, but that only stabilizes a patient temporarily, many paramedics said.

8.   From this crop of hybrid porkers they hope routinely to harvest whole hearts for transplantation into human cardiac patients.

9.   One study concluded that New York doctors had begun to exaggerate the risk of their cardiac patients.

10.   Reiner described Cheney as a model cardiac patient.