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...world waited and watched for encouraging signs, and for three weeks it looked as though the prognosis from the Loma Linda Medical Center would prove as steady and true as the pulse of the first-ever human recipient of an animal heart...
...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...
...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...
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...
...Loma Linda hospital has given Bailey permission to try five baboon-to-human transplants, but doctors say they have no immediate plans for other patients. Last week they were referring parents to Dr. Norwood at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Already some optimists are envisioning a day when the transplanting of simian hearts will be as acceptable in human medicine as the use of heart valves from pigs and bovine insulin. "Maybe one of these days we can start farming baboons for this purpose," suggests Christiaan Barnard. Others believe that baboon hearts could be used as a temporary measure...