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Baby Fae

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Baby Fae
A 2-week-old premature infant with a hypoplastic left heart syndrome who survived for 20 days in October 1984 when she received a walnut-sized heart from a 7 ½-month-old baboon
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November 10, 1984: Baby Fae is still strong 13 days after the infant's historic heart transplant operation at a California hospital.
THE PAST 100 YEARS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
Cole was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, the same condition as Baby Fae, the anonymous infant who in 1984 was the first to ever receive a baboon heart transplant in Southern California that kept her alive for an additional 21 days.
Parents of ill children search for solace together by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Leonard Bailey, a top-notch heart surgeon best remembered for implanting the heart of a baboon in an infant known as Baby Fae in 1984.
HEART WARMING IRAQI BOY BROUGHT HERE FOR LIFESAVING SURGERY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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