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  2. Baby Fae - Wikipedia

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    Stephanie Fae Beauclair [1] (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 and first successful infant heart transplant, receiving the heart of a baboon.

  3. Leonard Lee Bailey - Wikipedia

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    There he performed more than 200 experimental heart transplants on young mammals so he could see if there was the possibility of transplantation in young mammals. [2] On October 26, 1984, Bailey and his team at Loma Linda University Medical Center transplanted a baboon's heart into Baby Fae, as she became known to the media. Baby Fae died 21 ...

  4. Xenotransplantation - Wikipedia

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    An American infant girl known as "Baby Fae" with hypoplastic left heart syndrome was the first infant recipient of a xenotransplantation, when she received a baboon heart in 1984. The procedure was performed by Leonard Lee Bailey at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, California .

  5. Tomorrow's transplant organs could come from human-pig ... - AOL

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    But in the medical field, chimera -- real life human-animal hybrids -- could hold the key to solving the global shortage of transplantable organs. Tomorrow's transplant organs could come from ...

  6. Pig heart successfully transplanted into human for first time

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    Similar transplant surgery had been tried in 1984, when a baby born with a significant heart defect, Stephanie Fae Beauclair, survived for 20 with a baboon heart before it was rejected and she died.

  7. She's a medical miracle. Could her animal transplant success ...

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    One of the Maryland transplant patients showed evidence of a pig virus in the transplanted heart, highlighting concerns that so-called zoonotic viruses could transfer along with the transplant.

  8. List of organ transplant donors and recipients - Wikipedia

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    1984 - UK's first successful heart and lung transplant 1984 10 years First human hand transplant: Earl Owen and Jean-Michel Dubernard: Clint Hallam: The transplanted hand was removed at request of recipient after about two and a half years on February 2, 2001. September 23, 1998 [5] First human pancreas transplant: Richard Lillehei and William ...

  9. Virus found in pig heart used in human transplant - AOL

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    Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig have discovered the organ harbored an animal virus but cannot yet say if it played any role in the ...