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...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...
...demonstrating Bailey's point, critics charged that xenografts are still too uncertain and that other treatments should have been considered. Dr. 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...
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...
...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...