Word: xenographic
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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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...
...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...
Annas added that unreasonable operations should be strictly forbidden. "Everyone gave up, on xenograph transplants ten years ago, and I have found no new literature to suggest any improvement in the technique...
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