What xenotransplants have been done?
There have only been a few attempts at human xenografting over the years, but no human solid organ xenograft projects are currently approved by the FDA. “Baby Fae”, a child born with a malformed heart survived for a short period of time with a baboon heart. Two men were transplanted with livers from baboons at the University of Pittsburgh. These patients lived for several weeks. And in late 1995 a man with AIDS was transplanted with the bone marrow of a babboon. He is still alive and doing well as of April 1, 1996, but there is not yet evidence that the baboon cells are helping his immune system.
