1.   Animals often accept transplanted livers in the absence of the immunosuppressant drugs that are always given to human transplant patients to combat rejection of the organ.

2.   Before Hallam was accepted as a transplant patient, he went through psychological testing in Australia.

3.   Both drugs have the same active ingredient, known as cyclosporine, and are already approved in the U.S. to treat organ transplant patients.

4.   A greater diversity of lines might also help negotiate an immunological response that has proved so troublesome in transplant patients.

5.   Abbott now makes and markets products that aid in the care of transplant patients.

6.   After that, efforts accelerated to detect the substance, which was initially developed to treat kidney transplant patients.

7.   But in years to come, transplant patients may be able to bypass hospital waiting lines by getting spare body parts made from their own cells.

8.   By the time a transplant patient recovered enough to withstand harsh treatment, it was too late.

9.   Development of the DeBakey VAD began as a collaboration with NASA engineer David Saucier, who was a heart transplant patient.

10.   Experts and ethicists said the baseball hero was too old and too sick to meet the usual criteria for transplant patients.