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Page 12 11 WM | The Battalion " ^ T3; 7 ill* Illiill 'X'HE gATTALION Tuesday • October 25, Baby Fae: Clouded legacy 10 years later LOS ANGELES (AP) — Christina Falloon gets teary- eyed when she describes how her 5 1/2-year-old daughter Krysta recently scored the first goal of the season for her soccer team. “If it weren’t for Baby Fae, my daughter wouldn’t be here to day,” said the 31-year-old moth er from Buellton, whose daugh ter received a human heart transplant in 1988 that saved the 3-week-old girl’s life. “We’re grateful for that baby. It’s sad she didn’t make it.” Baby Fae was the 12-day-old infant who on Oct. 26, 1984 — 10 years ago Wednesday — received a walnut-size baboon heart in an operation at Loma Linda Univer sity Medical Center, 60 miles from Los Angeles. The first infant to receive an animal organ sur vived 20 1/2 days; her full name was never released. In the decade since Baby Fae’s death, the science of suppressing rejection has advanced and hu- man-to-human transplants have been fine-tuned to where patients are surviving longer. At the same time, Americans have been forced to consider the limits of medicine, the ethics of subjecting a newborn to experi mental surgery, the phenomenon of living with an organ from an other species and questions of animal rights. During Baby Fae’s brief life, people were fascinated and hor rified by the prospect of an ani mal organ enabling her to over come a fatal heart defect. But deep within her body, forces Dr. Leonard Bailey still hadn’t con quered were working against his surgical handiv'ork. Bailey, who was accused of making a premature leap across the species barrier, believes he knows enough now to avoid the pitfall of Baby Fae’s transplant. It wasn’t organ rejection but in compatible blood types that took her life. “The important legacy*; her is she stimulated thecobm babies could be transplanted a!.; deserved to be transplanted a well,” Bailey said. “We’ve been able to create; new form of therapy for sever; heart disease in infants as are suit of her legacy.” In the intervening years, b ley has transplanted hui; hearts into 250 babies, 173tr. der 6 months. Loma Lindas 85 percent are alive today. Police Weekly dose I SAVE $$$ * i with these , /, local coupons i '-■'•-7 * / / / I Every Tuesday in The Battalion ...great savings for Hail The L coupon! 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