1.   And his procedure, cutting out as much as a pound of muscle from diseased hearts to boost their power, seemed to defy logic.

2.   And many in medicine discount the idea that doctors will remove a diseased heart or liver and plop in a new factory-made replacement organ anytime soon.

3.   A diseased heart may weigh a pound and half, twice as much as a normal heart.

4.   Diseased hearts in danger of failure show random variation but no such long-range correlation of patterns, he says.

5.   His diseased heart had sent him into cardiac arrest.

6.   In some cases it is caused by some other form of underlying heart disease, including coronary artery disease, a heart attack or diseased heart valves.

7.   In theory, a stem cell implanted into a diseased heart, for example, would become a healthy human heart.

8.   Taking aim at teen-age smoking, the Canadian government proposed that cigarette packs carry color photographs of diseased hearts and cancerous lungs, lips and gums.

9.   --The device has enabled recipients to survive medical complications that would most likely have killed a patient with a diseased heart.

10.   The German experiment is the latest in a decadeslong quest to find a way to grow new vessels in diseased hearts.