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Heart Transplants: A Brief History - TIME

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Twenty-five years after Baby Fae's death following the world's first animal-to-human infant heart transplant, TIME looks back at the history of the procedure

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Tags: Heart, Organ Transplantation, Heart Transplant, Children's Health, Transplantation

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