"Surgeons say that one person off the transplant list is a huge success."

The man has been placed at the top of the hospital's transplant list, officials said.

By late June, he was on the transplant list.

Any heart the right size will do, and Miles is at the top of the regional transplant list.

But only a small number get on the transplant list.

But instead of going on the transplant list, he went to prison.

More than 100 people die every week while on the national transplant list waiting for an organ.

If there is no family match, he will be placed on a transplant waiting list.

But, they said, the real trick is to get on the transplant list in the first place.

At six months, 38 percent had to be put back on the transplant list.