Baby Fae body began generating isohaemagglutinins, but a suitable donor could not be found in time. Prior to the procedure, no infant heart transplant—even with human hearts—had been successfully performed due to a lack of infant human hearts. To address this issue, Bailey had become a pioneer in the research of cross-species heart transplants, which had included "more than 150 transplants in sheep, goats, and baboons". Multiple surgeons had previously experimented with baboon heart implants, leading some to speculate even that baboons could be farmed in the future for such purposes. When asked why he had picked a baboon over a primate
The Heart of a Distant Forest En Fjarren Skog, Raben & Sjogren, 1988; Trade paperback, Peachtree Southern Classics, 1991 Trade paperback, University of Georgia Press, 2005 The Heart of a Distant Forest "The Heart of a Distant Forest" (1984) was the first novel published by U.S. author Philip Lee Williams. It remains in print 25 years after publication. Retired junior college history professor Andrew Lachlan has returned to his family home on a lake in north central Georgia to spend the last year of his life. Diagnosed with a terminal disease, he has decided to forego life-extending treatments so he can focus on learning what he