Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bailey vowed to try again, not wanting to waste the lessons of what he called a "pioneering effort." But others, including many Harvard doctors familiar with transplant procedures, as well as government officials and animal-rights activists had a different response to the death Baby...
...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...