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Bailey vowed to try again, not wanting to waste the lessons of what he called a "pioneering effort." But others, including many Harvard doctors familiar with transplant procedures, as well as government officials and animal-rights activists had a different response to the death Baby...
Calling Bailey's transplant unethical, impractical and improper, experts at Harvard and other observers have expressed at Harvard and other observers have expressed anger over Bailey's experiment, charging that the procedure performed to replace Baby Fae's defective original heart simply could not succeed because it ignored the bounds of all current life-saving technology...
...practical purposes there is not evidence to suggest that a xenograph [species-to-species] transplantation could be successful," Professor of Medicine Nicholas L. Tilney '58, one of several doctors to conduct the first heart transplant in New England, says after Baby Fae's death. "There is no biological evidence to suggest that the immune system could be sufficiently supressed to subdue the baby's rejection of the heart, and there must be some biological evidence before one can conduct on operation...
...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...
...operation also involves much more than the theoretical potential of the transplant to extend the baby's life, it also involves presenting a true assessment of the process to the public, says Raphael H. Levey, chief of transplants surgery at BWH. "I'm not glad the operation was tried at this time. Cyclosporin is not the miracle drug it's cracked up to be and it's not good to create hype and give false hope to the public, while seeking undue publicity for an unjustified operation...