Baby Fae Baby Fae Stephanie Fae Beauclair (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 procedure, performed by Leonard L. Bailey at Loma Linda University Medical Center, was successful, but Fae died 21 days later of heart failure due to rejection of
Baboon Guinea baboon is and weighs only , while the largest chacma baboon can be and weigh . Five species of "Papio" are commonly recognized, although there is some disagreement about whether they are really full species or subspecies. They are "P. ursinus" (chacma baboon, found in southern Africa), "P. papio" (western, red, or Guinea baboon, found in the far western Africa), "P. hamadryas" (hamadryas baboon, found in the Horn of Africa and southwestern Arabia), "P. anubis" (olive baboon, found in the north-central African savanna) and "P. cynocephalus" (yellow baboon, found in south-central and eastern Africa). Many authors distinguish "P. hamadryas"