baby fae

baby fae

Twenty-five years ago, the world's eyes were a little girl who needed heart.Some was critical, a lot of support. And while Stephanie Beauclair Fae died 21 days after the baboon's heart more than 500 young patients, after receiving the heart transplant in Loma Linda University Medical Center."The most important thing," Baby Fae strong heritage - saved thousands of children who do not (not complete), otherwise, "said Dr. Leonard Bailey.

"We got a lot of baseline data on how newborns do even without medications. They do better than my age," said Bailey, surgeon-in-chief at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital. They did more research on animals and found those with heart transplants could grow and have babies.They looked at primates, then narrowed it down to baboons because 80 percent of their DNA is the same as human DNA.

"The Baby Fae's case, her reaction was even less power than her father for her," said Bailey, who lives in Redlands. "They responded very weakly to the donor, and that is how we chose the donor for her transplant. On the morning of October 26, 1984, Bailey transplanted a baboon heart to" Baby Fae, "12 days earlier in the Barstow area born a fatal condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome.