Baby Fae
Stephanie Fae Traphagan (October 14, 1984 – November 15, 1984), better known as Baby Fae, was an American infant born in 1984 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. She became the first infant subject of a xenotransplant procedure, receiving the heart of a baboon. The procedure, performed by Leonard L. Bailey at Loma Linda University Medical Center, seemed successful, but Fae died 21 days later of a kidney infection. The procedure was subject to a wide ethical and legal debate.
Although Fae's full name was not made public at the time of the procedure, her mother chose to reveal herself in 1997.[1]
Footnotes
- ^ "Four Corners - 8/25/1997: Animal Transplants. Australian Broadcasting Corp". Abc.net.au. Retrieved 2008-11-26.
One reason for the demise of Baby Fae was that the blood type of the baboon did not match her blood type.
External Links
Sources
- Adventist news Network 25th-anniversary retrospective - http://news.adventist.org/2009/10/surgeon-bailey-refle.html
- Contemporary Time Magazine coverage - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,926947,00.html
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