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...Professor of Surgery Gilbert H. Mudge, another heart transplant specialist, looked more favorably upon the operation. He emphasized that cyclosporin had yet to be tested in xenographs and there was a possibility of such transplants being successful. "I think it was a heroic attempt to save a life which would have inevitably died, and, although the operation was not a breakthrough, it did use a new technique [cyclo-porin] and therefore was reasonable...
Although very few experts believe that the transplant stood a chance of long-term success, there remains this question of whether any alternative procedures to Bailey's xenograph operation existed...
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...
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...
...another question arises around the self selection of physicians to perform the controversial transplants. Several transplant specialists--many doctors at Harvard affiliated hospitals among them--have questioned whether doctors like Bailey, who are relatively unknown and unpublished, should be allowed to conduct such dangerous and widely-publicized operation on a child...