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Stephanie Fae Traphagan, well known as a “Baby Fae” was born on October 14, 1984 and died on November 15, 1984. The American infant, Baby Fae, was suffering from “hypoplactic left heart’s syndrome. She went through xenotransplant procedure and thus became the first infant who received a heart of baboon. The procedure was performed at “Loma Linda University’s Medical Centre” in South California by Leonard L Bailey. The procedure seemed very successful initially but Baby Fae died of a kidney infection 21 days later. The procedure was attracted by a wide range of legal and ethical debate. When Baby Fae was being operated in the hospital there was a controversy in outside world. There were various protests across the country and abroad and they called it as “ghoulish tindening” with the human and the animal life. The medical community was also divided over the issue although some were receptive of this technical innovation. The University of Minnesota’s surgeon John Najarian, who was considered to be the leading pediatric transplant specialist of the country, declared that it, is impossible to transplant cross species and it there is never any success. However some people supported the experiment and stated that it is an effort to prolong the Baby Fae’s dying process.
Dr John Collins, the chief of the cardiac surgery at “Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital also defended the procedure and stated that it is often easy to sit back and criticize the new treatments and innovations in treatment and be negative at all times. If new treatments will not be tried at all, then there will not be any