Word: organism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brief life was marked by more than its share of controversy. Doctors challenged the wisdom of using an animal heart when a human organ might have been preferable; animal lovers protested the sacrifice of a healthy monkey for what they saw as medical sensationalism; and others questioned the circumstances under which Fae's parents had consented to so drastic a procedure. Nonetheless, Fae's struggle for survival converted many skeptics and won the hearts of millions of people. Her progress and setbacks?virtually every beat of her simian heart?were avidly followed. Hundreds of Americans sent cards, flowers, even money...
Such stopgap measures are desperately needed. "There is a tremendous shortage of donor organs for infants," says Dr. Thomas Starzl, a leading liver transplant surgeon at Pittsburgh's Children's Hospital. He estimates that eleven out of twelve of his infant patients who are now waiting for liver transplants will die before suitable donors can be found. Baby Fae has already had one salutary effect. According to Barbara Schulman, coordinator for the Regional Organ Procurement Agency at UCLA, over the past three weeks the number of prospective infant donors referred to the agency has soared...
...count the number of animal-to-human transplants on one hand and they have all been totally hopeless," says Professor of Surgery Lawrence H. Cohn, another heart transplant pioneer. The implantation of a foreign organ from a different species into a human causes continuous, massive rejection even though the organs are functionally similar, he says. Doctors are barely able to repress rejection in human-to-human transplants, he added...
Bailey, who prior to this operation was not a leader in the organ transplant field, has not published any information on xenographs or on transplants in general for that matter, according to the press office...
...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 organ would be the second...