Xenotransplantation failure dissipated. An American infant girl known as "Baby Fae" with hypoplastic left heart syndrome was the first infant recipient of a xenotransplantation, when she received a baboon heart in 1983. The procedure was performed by Leonard L. Bailey at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, California. Fae died 21 days later due to a humoral-based graft rejection thought to be caused mainly by an ABO blood type mismatch, considered unavoidable due to the rarity of type O baboons. The graft was meant to be temporary, but unfortunately a suitable allograft replacement could not be found in time.
Heart of the Sun Heart of the Sun Heart of the Sun is a Canadian drama film, directed by Francis Damberger and released in 1998. Based on the play "Jennie's Story" by Betty Lambert, the film explores the controversial Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta through the story of Jennie (Christianne Hirt), a woman trying to have a baby with her husband Harry (Shaun Johnston) who learns that she was forcibly sterilized as a teenager. The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in 1998. Hirt won the award for Best Actress at the Alberta Film and Television Awards in 1999, and screenwriter Kim