![Baby Fae in her protective tent](/sites/news.llu.edu/files/styles/crop_news_thumbnail/public/Baby%20Fae%202.jpg?itok=GTnQlcma)
![Baby Fae in her protective tent](/sites/news.llu.edu/files/styles/crop_news_thumbnail/public/Baby%20Fae%202.jpg?itok=GTnQlcma)
![Jack Provonsha, shown in the portrait drawing above by Cassidy Alexander (2000), led in the bioethical discussions about the Baby Fae case.](/sites/news.llu.edu/files/styles/crop_news_thumbnail/public/Provonsha.jpg?itok=K6BPFOnQ)
Patient Care
Baby Fae: Best Available Therapy
Baby Fae lived almost three weeks after surgery, apparently at least two good weeks. This was much longer than any other xenograft had ever survived.
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Patient Care
Baby Fae: As a Wondering World Watched
The transplant of a baboon heart into a two-week-old girl by a team headed by Leonard L. Bailey, MD, a 1969 graduate of the School of Medicine, was the first of its kind in a newborn ever attempted.