11.   The transplant team drew up a battle plan over several months to prepare for a bloodless pancreas transplant.

12.   The transplant team screened out more people out than it accepted, he said.

13.   The transplant team at Beth Israel Deaconess includes three surgeons, a hepatologist and two nurses.

14.   They described promotions offering slides, brochures and handshakes with celebrity specialists, like surgeons who work on world-famous transplant teams.

15.   To the transplant teams, we say thank you, and bravo, San Francisco!

16.   Transplant teams routinely reject people with birth defects and retardation on the theory they cannot follow proper procedures to ensure transplanted organs survive.

17.   Transplant teams say that they never ask anyone to donate and that donors must come forward on their own.

18.   Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil, who headed the transplant team, said surgery went well.

19.   Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard, co-head of the transplant team, was not immediately available for comment.

20.   He could be out of the hospital in two to three weeks, said Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil, leader of the transplant team.