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Which animal heart alive in baboon for two years managed by National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Researchers
A
Camel
B
Elephant
C
Pig
D
cat
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Researchers keep pig hearts alive in baboons for more than 2 years | Science | AAAS.

Detailed explanation-2: -Baby Fae survived the transplant, which provided her a new, healthy and, against all odds, beating baboon heart. Though the transplant gave her a little extra time, Baby Fae tragically passed away 21 days later.

Detailed explanation-3: -A baboon heart was used as there was no time for a suitable human heart to be found. It was hoped that the transplant could be replaced by an allograft at a later date, before Fae’s body began generating isohaemagglutinins, but a suitable donor could not be found in time.

Detailed explanation-4: -Leonard L Bailey: in 1984 he transplanted a baboon heart into a human infant known as “Baby Fae” On the morning of 26 October 1984, Leonard L Bailey and his heart transplantation team were gathered around an operating table at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California.

Detailed explanation-5: -As 12-day-old Fae’s condition began to deteriorate on Oct. 26, 1984, the medical team choose a donor baboon and began the transplant operation. At 11:35 a.m., TIME wrote, Fae’s “new heart began to beat spontaneously.

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