Baby Fae | |
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 Baby Fae, shortly after her transplant. The dark stripe on her torso is the surgical incision. | |
| Born | Stephanie Fae Beauclair October 14, 1984 |
| Died | November 15, 1984 (aged 32 days) |
| Known for | First infant subject of a xenotransplant procedure |
Stephanie Fae Beauclair[1] (October 14, 1984 – November 15, 1984), better known as Baby Fae, was an American infant born in 1984 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. She became the first infant subject of a xenotransplant procedure and first successful infant heart transplant, receiving the heart of a baboon. Though she died within a month of the procedure, she lived weeks longer than any previous recipient of a non-human heart.
- ^ The Legacy of Baby Fae Archived 2012-05-12 at the Wayback Machine, at Loma Linda University; published no later than October 2009; retrieved August 16, 2014