Baby Fae dies as baboon heart fails 30 years ago this hour (Nov 15 1984)


Video: 'Stephanie's Heart: The Story of Baby Fae - Part 1'

(Thursday, November 15, 1984, 9:00 p.m. PST)Stephanie Fae Beauclair, the infant publicly known as “Baby Fae” who had received a baboon’s heart to replace her own congenitally deformed one, died at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California three weeks after the transplant.


Video: 'Stephanie's Heart: The Story of Baby Fae - Part 2'