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Then last week, after Bailey had all but convinced Baby Fae's news-hungry fans, that all was fine and as suddenly as the story of her heart had flashed across newspapers and television screens worldwide, the infant died...
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 Fae...
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...
Asked whether Baby Fae would have trouble adjusting and perhaps be teased for being different, Loma Linda's Hinshaw replied, "Society may have to adjust to her." The heart, he added dryly, "is only a muscular pump. It is not the seat of the soul...
...Even if Fae does not reject her new heart, she might ultimately need a replacement. Though Dr. Bailey's animal research suggests that a xenograft adjusts to the needs of its new host, no one really knows what to expect. Also unknown is the long-term effect of cyclosporine, which Fae may have to take for the rest of her life. The drug has been found to cause liver and kidney damage and to increase the risk of certain cancers...