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Several doctors interviewed this week suggested that Baby Fae had little chance of survival as a result of this operation and suggested several alternatives which may have saved her life. In addition to the medical controversy, an ethical dilemna has developed as a result of Baby Fae, founded on the lack of government regulation and planning previous to the operation...
...practical purposes there is not evidence to suggest that a xenograph [species-to-species] transplantation could be successful," Professor of Medicine Nicholas L. Tilney '58, one of several doctors to conduct the first heart transplant in New England, says after Baby Fae's death. "There is no biological evidence to suggest that the immune system could be sufficiently supressed to subdue the baby's rejection of the heart, and there must be some biological evidence before one can conduct on operation...
...extremely suppressing that she survived as long as she did," says Tilney, adding however that he attributes this to the immaturity of Baby Fae's immune system and her increased tolerance for foreign organs as a neo-natal and not the success of the operation. "She couldn't recognize the difference between herself and the other and thus did not reject the heart as quickly as an adult would have...
Bailey claimed that the drastic condition of Baby Fae before the operation led him to believe that a time-consuming search for a suitable human heart would simply cost Baby Fae her life. "We did not search for any human hearts before the operation," he says in a press statement. The Loma Linda Medical Center however has refused to make public either the data on Baby Fae herself, or the deliberation before conducting the operation. "The hospital regards all information on Baby Fae as private," says Jessical Baker, spokesperson...
...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...