A week later, after further tests, doctors told him he needed a transplant by the end of 1999.

Some of them, he says, improved so much that they no longer needed a transplant.

Meanwhile, across town, a man must make a difficult decision regarding his wife, who needs a transplant.

The doctor said that there were no options; I needed a transplant.

There was a case, not long ago, in which a child needed a transplant.

For one thing, they are so damaged as to be almost useless, or the person would not need a transplant.

With his recovery going well, he has now joined an effort to help others who need transplants.

Of several hundred pediatric heart patients at the center, only two or three a year need transplants, he said.

While doctors caught Mourning's condition early, he could still need a transplant.

It doesn't mean that she won't need a transplant sometime in the future.