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...signed by Fae's parents fueled the controversy. This document "is crucial," says Arthur Caplan, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. "Were the parents informed about the possibility of a human heart?" Others felt that Bailey may have misrepresented the facts about the "Norwood procedure," a surgical treatment recently developed to help infants with hypoplastic heart. Indeed, in his public statements, Bailey understated the success rate of this alternative...
...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...
Baby Fae's condition could possibly have been corrected by the Norwood operation, says Castenada. He emphasized that unless Bailey had developed some novel technique for supressing the immune system after the transplant he would be critical of the doctor for ignoring other methods...
...certainly would have used the Norwood methods," says Levey, a colleague of Castenada...