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...Calling Bailey's transplant unethical, impractical and improper, experts at Harvard and other observers have expressed at Harvard and other observers have expressed anger over Bailey's experiment, charging that the procedure performed to replace Baby Fae's defective original heart simply could not succeed because it ignored the bounds of all current life-saving technology...
Although very few experts believe that the transplant stood a chance of long-term success, there remains this question of whether any alternative procedures to Bailey's xenograph operation existed...
...Cohn did offer some positive encouragement also. He says the new wonder immune-suppressions drug, cyclosporin, which was pioneered for use with heart transplants at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) last year, had not yet been tested in cross-species transplantation and indicated that Bailey was going to attempt the operation. However, he says that the likelihood of success even with the new drug was minimal...
...after Bailey's five-hour operation, a report in the Los Angeles Times confirmed that a human heart was available at the UCLA medical school located only 50 miles from Loma Linda. In addition, other procedures, namely the so-called Norwood operation--which attempts, by surgery, to make the defective heart function normally--used extensively by Dr. Aldo R. Castenada of the Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital, might have been employed with more success...
...Bailey claimed that the drastic condition of Baby Fae before the operation led him to believe that a time-consuming search for a suitable human heart would simply cost Baby Fae her life. "We did not search for any human hearts before the operation," he says in a press statement. The Loma Linda Medical Center however has refused to make public either the data on Baby Fae herself, or the deliberation before conducting the operation. "The hospital regards all information on Baby Fae as private," says Jessical Baker, spokesperson...