1.   All others involve livers from cadavers, a more common liver transplant procedure, he said.

2.   Candidates for AbioCor transplants are considered too high-risk for conventional transplant procedures.

3.   Cancer researchers and patient advocacy groups expect the findings to show that the transplant procedure offers no significant advantage over standard chemotherapy.

4.   For Mount Sinai, the expanding scope of the investigation appeared to heighten pressure for a formal plan to improve liver transplant procedures.

5.   It is the only facility in North Carolina to perform the risky transplant procedure.

6.   Meanwhile, if the FDA allows the clinical trials to resume, additional stroke patients await the transplant procedure.

7.   On Monday, nine months after the cell transplant procedure, Cook is scheduled to have another routine checkup in Boston.

8.   She was also undergoing a transplant procedure for advanced breast cancer.

9.   The heart transplant procedure was complete by noon.

10.   The next stroke patient has not yet been scheduled for the transplant procedure, although discussions are under way with several other patients who meet certain requirements.