The State - News from March 17, 1988

A 1-day-old girl born in Texas with most of her brain missing has been transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center for possible participation in an organ donor program. Another donor infant already at the San Bernardino area hospital, a boy identified as Baby D, has not shown the required signs of brain death after six days on a respirator, lessening the chance that major organs can be taken from him, medical center spokeswoman Joyce McClintock said. The newly arrived infant, identified only as Baby Cassandra, was born Tuesday at a small community hospital in Texas. The Loma Linda hospital has developed the nation’s first medical guidelines for preserving anencephalics’ hearts and other vital organs for infant transplants.