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...Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. Tickets for this black-tie affair lasting from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. will cost $12 per person or $20 per couple. Some tickets will be available at the door for those who have neglected to purchase them beforehand, according to Lisa Marie Castenada '96, house committee chair...
...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...
...addition, Dr. Castenada has used a modified version of the Norwood procedure on about 40 children with about a 40 percent mortality rate. Xenographic transplants in history have a 100 percent mortality rate; Baby Fae outlived all other recipients of an animal heart by two and a half weeks...
Baby Fae's condition could possibly have been corrected by the Norwood operation, says Castenada. He emphasized that unless Bailey had developed some novel technique for supressing the immune system after the transplant he would be critical of the doctor for ignoring other methods...
...certainly would have used the Norwood methods," says Levey, a colleague of Castenada...