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...Moneim Fadali, a cardiovascular surgeon at the University of California, Los Angeles, was one of several physicians to suggest that the decision to use an animal organ may have been "a matter of bravado" and that a human heart "would have offered the child a better chance of survival." Loma Linda Surgeon David Hinshaw explained that he and his colleagues believed that the hope of finding a compatible human heart in time to save the dying Fae was "almost nonexistent." Indeed, infant hearts are so seldom available that transplants into very young children are rarely attempted. (Read "One Miracle, Many...
Ironically, the heart of a two-month-old infant was available the day of Fae's operation. Transplant coordinators from the Regional Organ Procurement Agency at UCLA called Loma Linda hospital to offer the infant's kidneys (the heart was not discussed because Loma Linda does not have a human-heart-transplant program). When word of the potential human donor became public last week, Loma Linda officials explained that the call from the procurement agency had come after the baboon heart was implanted, that the heart of a two-month-old might have been too big for Fae, and that...
...surgeon from Takoma Park, Md., has devoted his career to trying to help victims of hypoplastic heart. A Seventh-day Adventist, he was educated at Loma Linda University Medical School, the only Adventist medical college in the world. Bailey had first considered using xenografts during his residency at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, where, he admits, the idea "drew snickers." When he tried to develop the procedure at Loma Linda, he found it difficult to get his research papers published and impossible to get funding. "I felt rather lonely," he reflected last week. "People didn't understand the importance...
While some religious groups find the idea of animal-to-human transplants repugnant, it is not inconsistent with Seventh-day Adventist teachings, says Dr. Jack Provonsha, a minister of the church as well as a doctor at Loma Linda. The church has always placed a strong emphasis on health. This, he explains, is part of the belief that "our redemptive concern for man's need should include not only his spiritual life but his physical life as well." Because Adventists see man as "the ultimate level of our value concerns," says Provonsha, "then the sacrifice of an animal...
...week's end Baby Fae's remarkable progress was making many critics of the experiment think again. Loma Linda doctors expressed relief that their tiny patient had so far avoided "hyperacute rejection," a reaction to foreign tissue that often occurs immediately after a transplant. However, Hinshaw cautioned that the seventh to tenth days after a transplant are a peak period for rejection. Should the child begin to show signs of rejecting the baboon heart, said Hinshaw, a second transplant would be considered. In this event, a human heart was said to be the team's first choice and another baboon...