Word: baileys
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After 21 days of battling to preserve a fragile life, Dr. Leonard Bailey was visibly spent. His voice trembled and broke with emotion last Friday as he faced the press at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California to provide the epitaph for the dark-haired infant known as Baby Fae. "Today we grieve the loss of this patient's life," said the 41-year-old heart surgeon. That life, he insisted, had not been in vain. "Infants with heart disease yet to be born will some day soon have the opportunity to live, thanks to the courage of this...
...response to questions last week, Bailey said that Baby Fae suffered little pain in her final hours. "I believe she suffered a great deal more before I saw her than after," he insisted. "The best days of her short life were after her transplant." The parents, he maintained, had no regrets about the experiment: "They felt that it was an enriching experience...
...reporting that the child was "hanging in there." In fact, Baby Fae was experiencing kidney failure. For several days, the child's urine output had been declining?an indication that the kidneys were not functioning properly. This put other organs in jeopardy and ultimately contributed to heart failure, Bailey explained at the press conference. It was not clear if Fae's kidney problem was due to her drug regimen, the surgery or rejection, which can trigger the failure of a number of organs. Most likely, it was a combination of factors. Though doctors had discussed the possibility of a second...
...hospital called Fae's mother within the next two days and, as Bailey explained, proposed the baboon heart transplant. A friend recalls that Teresa "decided she had to do anything possible to try and save her baby's life." Barstow residents who are close to the mother say that she was well aware of the experimental nature of the operation and was not pressured into agreeing...
...refusal to release the text of the form signed by Fae's parents fueled the controversy. This document "is crucial," says Arthur Caplan, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. "Were the parents informed about the possibility of a human heart?" Others felt that Bailey may have misrepresented the facts about the "Norwood procedure," a surgical treatment recently developed to help infants with hypoplastic heart. Indeed, in his public statements, Bailey understated the success rate of this alternative...