On the same day 25 years ago, a Baby Fae was donated a heart by a Baboon. If Baby Stephanie Fae Traphagan will be remembered, so will be Goober. On 26th October 1984, Surgeon Leonard L. Bailey transplanted Baboon Goober’s heart to Stephanie Fae Traphagan but both died. However, the controversy still lives.
An American baby Stephanie Fae Traphagan was brought to hospital that was a 3 weeks premature child and was born with hypoplastic left-heart syndrome. The doctors knew that the baby would not survive in this condition of heart therefore, a unique decision was made. Surgeon Leonard L. Bailey suggested it would make history if the baby’s heart would be tried to be replaced through the first ever animal to human heart transplant.
The permission for such a controversial surgery of its own kind was sought from the Seventh Day Adventist Church Loma Linda, California and a female Baboon named ‘Goober’ was chosen from among the stocked animals, for the historic sacrifice.
First it was Goober that lost its life for a reason she would never be able to know and later, her stolen heart couldn’t do much for a one-day-old baby Stephanie whom the heart was donated. Stephanie though made a world record by becoming the longest surviving beneficiary of some animal’s organs, but couldn’t make it beyond 21 days. She died on November 15, 1984. As per expectations, her flimsy kidneys never adjusted to the ‘unnatural’ phenomena may be, and Baby Fae and Goober died simultaneously.
Source apakistannews.com
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