The Region - News from Feb. 14, 1986

Baby Eve, the second infant to receive a heart transplant at Loma Linda University Medical Center, was discharged in good condition and returned to her parents. The baby was 17 days old when she underwent a rare infant-to-infant heart transplant performed by Dr. Leonard L. Bailey on Jan. 23. Bailey is the doctor who placed a baboon’s heart into the 12-day-old girl known as Baby Fae in October, 1984. She died at the medical center 20 days later. Baby Eve is the second baby in recent months to receive a heart transplant at Loma Linda. Baby Moses, just four days old when he was given a new heart, was discharged Jan. 2.