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Gerald Boucher, age 44, of South Hadley, Mass., died from rejection of his second heart after doctors at the Harvard affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and the donor, a 38 year-old Connecticut nurse who died in an accident, gave him a $57,000 new lease on life 10 months...
Boucher was readmitted to Brigham and Women's November 25 after the latest of rejection led his doctors to apply for a new heart, but he died before a donor organ could be located...
Others were concerned less with the integrity of the donor than with the dignity of the recipient. At first, before Baby Fae's televised smile had beguiled skeptics, the word ghoulish was heard: some sacred barrier between species had been broken, some principle of separateness between man and animal violated. Indeed, it is a blow to man's idea of himself to think that a piece of plastic or animal tissue may occupy the seat of the emotions and perform perfectly well (albeit as a pump). It is biological Galileism, and just as humbling. Nevertheless it is fact...
Diflo said that, despite a good initial response at Harvard, the donor turn-out has been low in the past three days and there is "no way to gauge" whether the Harvard-Yale competition has helped it toward its 1400-pint goal...
Such stopgap measures are desperately needed. "There is a tremendous shortage of donor organs for infants," says Dr. Thomas Starzl, a leading liver transplant surgeon at Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital. He estimates that eleven out of twelve of his infant patients who are now waiting for liver transplants will die before suitable donors can be found. Baby Fae has already had one salutary effect. According to Barbara Schulman, coordinator for the Regional Organ Procurement Agency at UCLA, over the past three weeks the number of prospective infant donors referred to the agency has soared...