The New Orleans Conference 2016 — Baby Fae - The first xenotransplant of baboon heart to a human baby — Perfusion

Dr. Leonard L. Bailey revisits the first xenotransplant of baboon heart to a human baby - (Baby Fae). A xenotransplant is a transplant between species. Transplanted organs are called grafts, hence a xenograft is an organ transplanted from one species to another. Xenotransplantation is any procedure that involves the transplantation, implantation, or infusion into a human recipient of either (a) live cells, tissues, or organs from a nonhuman animal source, or (b) human body fluids, cells, tissues, or organs that have had ex vivo contact with live nonhuman animal cells, tissues or organs. The development of xenotransplantation is, in part, driven by the fact that the demand for human organs for clinical transplantation far exceeds the supply.