1.   At the time of the first transplant, doctors found that her marrow was a perfect match for that of Tsongas, the hospital said in March.

2.   After his first heart transplant, Mendoza developed graft arteriosclerosis, a form of chronic rejection.

3.   Dr. Jorge Garcia, a well-known U.S.-based cardiologist who performed the first heart transplant in the Philippines, headed the surgical team.

4.   He co-directed the research effort that led to the first hand transplant in the country two years ago.

5.   In all likelihood, the first transplants of pig organs will be temporary, to keep patients alive for weeks or months while they await a human organ.

6.   In the first transplant, some of his marrow was removed and cleansed in a laboratory before he received large amounts of anti-cancer drugs.

7.   It is the kind of talk heard with every scientific breakthrough, from the first heart transplant to the first cloned sheep.

8.   Just as with the first heart transplants, surgeons will be willing to attempt xenotransplants, if they see it as an option to save their patients.

9.   None of the factors that had made the first transplant such an enormous problem had changed.

10.   Groote Schuur paid tribute to Barnard during his lifetime by turning the operating theater where he performed the first heart transplant into a Transplant Museum.