baboon heart造句

• But immune rejection has been a huge barrier, and the field of xenotransplantation is littered with failures, among them the celebrated Baby Fae case in 1984, in which a baby died after receiving a baboon heart.
• While they still have a way to go with the research, doctors are waiting for a hospital review board to give them permission to use a baboon heart in a patient who may be in imminent danger of death.
• In 1984, an infant known publicly as Baby Fae, born with HLHS, received a transplanted baboon heart but lived only 20 days . Early efforts to reconstruct the walnut-sized heart through surgery had dismal results.
• Loma Linda University Medical Center made international news on October 26, 1984, when Dr . Leonard L Bailey transplanted a baboon heart into Baby Fae, an infant born with a severe heart defect known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
• After more than three decades of fits and starts, including such premature adventures as the 1984 transplantation of a baboon heart into an infant known as Baby Fae, xenotransplants have crossed the divide from the animal lab to the medical clinic.
• In all, sheep, baboon and chimpanzee hearts were transplanted into at least four adults between 1964 and 1977; all died within 3 { days . In 1984, an infant known as Baby Fae received a baboon heart at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California.
• In all, sheep, baboon and chimpanzee hearts were transplanted into at least four adults between 1964 and 1977; all died within 31 / 2 days . In 1984, an infant known as Baby Fae received a baboon heart at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California.
• The Paul Simon song " The Boy in the Bubble " from the 1986 " Graceland " album, most likely references her in the lyrics . " Medicine is magical and magical is art / Thinking of the Boy in the Bubble / And the baby with the baboon heart ".
• It has been more than three decades since doctors first attempted a cross-species transplant, and 14 years since a surgeon at Loma Linda University Medical Center, in California, captivated the public with his unsuccessful attempt to use a baboon heart to save the life of an infant dubbed Baby Fae.
• Since the 1960s, researchers have implanted organs from sheep, pigs, baboons and chimpanzees into people, but none has survived more than 20 days . The most famous episode was the transplantation of a baboon heart in 1984 into an infant, known as Baby Fae, born with a lethal heart defect.
• "In 1931, we weren't doing heart bypass operations or using baboon hearts to put in kids and things . . . . That changed the whole way it would be received, I think, and it meant that we could get away from all of the stuff that's been ."
• After beating a retreat following a highly publicized, unsuccessful effort in 1984 to transplant a baboon heart into a 15-day-old infant known as " Baby Fae " at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California, transplant surgeons are relying on new scientific advances in a new effort to relieve a severe organ donor shortage made possible by successes in transplanting human organs.