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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Jesica Santillan
		Jesica Santillan (December 26, 1985 - February 22, 2003) was a Mexican national who entered the United States to obtain medical treatment, but died after an organ transplant operation in which she received the heart and lungs of a patient whose blood type did not match hers.
		Santillan, whose blood was type O-positive, had a heart condition (restrictive cardiomyopathy and secondary nonreactive pulmonary hypertension[?]), that resulted in reduced blood perfusion in her lungs.
		After Jesica's death, the Santillan family was approached by the hospital to determine if her salvageable organs could be donated for use in other transplant patients.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/je/Jesica_Santillan (365 words)

	Jesica Santillan
		Jesica also suffered from kidney failure as a consequence of the tissue mismatch.
		Santillan's family illegally entered the United States from Tamazula[?], Mexico, a town 275 miles west of Mexico City, so that she could receive medical treatment.
		On February 20, Santillan received a new heart and set of lungs after a new donor was found late on February 19, 2003.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/je/Jesica_Santillan.html (340 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Jesica Santillan)
		Jesica's sad story is more complicated than it first appears, because in 2000 her parents paid a smuggler to spirit the family into the United States from Mexico in hopes of getting her a transplant.
		Jesica's second heart and lung transplant seemed to be working, but the damage from the first transplant was already done, and it wasn't survivable.
		Jesica was also slated to be autopsied two days after her death, and a complete autopsy would not have been possible if parts had been taken away.
	www.snopes.com /inboxer/children/santillan.asp (1034 words)

	Worldandnation: For Jesica, yet another chance at life
		Jesica's place on the list was determined in part by her poor condition and her age.
		Santillan was born in Guzman, Mexico, a small town near Guadalajara, with a deformed heart that caused a fatal condition known as restrictive cardiomyopathy.
		Ramona Santillan, Jesica's aunt, said she hoped to bring the girl to Mexico City's Basilica of Guadalupe, where a cloak with the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe is displayed.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/02/21/news_pf/Worldandnation/For_Jesica__yet_anoth.shtml (1134 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Teenage Girl in Botched Organ Transplant Dies
		Jesica Santillan, 17, was pronounced dead at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., at 1:25 p.m.
		Santillan's parents had demanded a second opinion before their daughter was taken off life support, a request hospital officials first offered and then withdrew, according to Kurt Dixon, the family's lawyer.
		Santillan's parents smuggled the family into the United States from Mexico three years ago in hopes of getting medical care for their daughter, who was born with a fatal heart condition.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A50116-2003Feb22?language=printer (1113 words)

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		To state that Jesica should have her IV removed because she was here illegally was to risk being tarredand feathered, if not hung by the local if not national media.
		Jesica and her parents paid a coyote $5,000 to a coyote to smuggle them into this country.
		Jesica's family "moved" from Mexico to North Carolina three years ago in hopes that she could be treated at Duke for restrictive cardiomyopathy.
	iamaw31.org /jsantillan.htm (1044 words)

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		Jesica, 17, was in critical condition today as antibodies in her blood tried to destroy the transplanted organs.
		Jesica Santillan, 17, was in critical condition in the pediatric intensive care unit after her second four-hour heart-lung transplant at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., where the original mix-up occurred.
		Jesica Santillan died Saturday at Duke University Medical Center, surrounded by an arsenal of medical technology, top doctors and a network of experts dedicated to transplanting her with organs that could save her life.
	www.mdc.edu /medical/Bioethics/Jessica.htm (5932 words)

	Jesica Santillan and Duke: What We Learned - Dukehealth.org
		Jesica's family was notified immediately by Dr. Jaggers that an error had occurred and he explained in detail what had happened, enabling them to make informed decisions about her care.
		To this, we say that after the blood-typing mistake, we treated Jesica just as we would have treated any other gravely ill transplant patient: she underwent the appropriate medical tests that determined she was eligible for and would benefit from another transplant.
		The same doctors gave Jesica's family an opportunity to pay their last respects by continuing the use of a ventilator that kept her breathing for four hours after she was declared dead.
	www.dukehealth.org /news/6436 (1430 words)

	USNews.com: Jesica's Story (7/28/03)
		Less than three months later, 17-year-old Jesica Santillan was dead, the victim of an elementary and inexcusable medical mistake: Her heart-lung transplant had gone wrong because her blood type and the donor's did not match.
		The tragedy grabbed the national imagination, because Jesica's parents had been told of miracles performed at Duke and had risked illegally crossing the Mexican border to bring her to one of the world's leading transplant centers.
		Jesica Santillan's death, on February 22, was clearly due to surgeon and hospital error, but the entire national organ-transplant system also played a major role.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/health/articles/030728/28jesica.htm (571 words)

	Archive--Jesica
		In a week already cluttered with news of utter tragedy and despair, Jesica Santillan's story shakes us back into the essential reality of medicine, which despite its tremendous advances, remains a human endeavor where hope should be tempered with the risks of mistakes and unforeseen complications.
		Santillan, the 17-year-old patient at Duke University Hospital who was mistakenly given a heart and lungs that did not match her blood type, died two days after receiving a second set of transplant organs.
		The mistake in Santillan's case immediately moved transplant surgery centers around the country to verify their procedures for checking organ compatibility, a small yet potentially significant step in a complex medical procedure.
	newscafe.ansci.usu.edu /archive/feb2003/0226_jesica.html (955 words)

	CNN.com - Teen's family grateful after 2nd transplant - Feb. 21, 2003
		Jesica Santillan is in a pediatric intensive care unit, fighting to recover from her second heart-lung transplant surgery in two weeks because of a medical error.
		Jesica's mother is still worried about the risks her 17-year-old daughter still faces and the possible complications.
		Jesica needed the first transplant because of a heart deformity that kept her lungs from getting oxygen into her blood.
	www.cnn.com /2003/HEALTH/02/20/transplant.error/index.html (1229 words)

	[Deathwatch] Jesica Santillan, organ recipient, 17
		Jesica, 17, whose own heart had a deformity that kept her lungs from getting oxygen into her blood, received a heart-lung transplant Feb. 7.
		To do otherwise would fail to properly honor Jesica and her memory." Family lawyer Kurt Dixon said Jesica's parents and supporters, who had remained with her through her hospitalization, would not be available for comment.
		Jesica's place on the transplant list was determined by several factors, including the severity of her illness and her age.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2003-February/000374.html (739 words)

	Welcome to the Wake Weekly Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Seventeen-year-old Jesica Santillan's fight for life, supported by millions across the globe, ended Saturday after doctors pronounced her brain dead.
		Jesica was not in a coma, and she was not in a vegetative state -- she was brain dead, Frush said, insisting the appropriate procedures were followed.
		Jaggers, who had been Jesica's doctor since she became a patient at Duke Hospital, has said he is "ultimately responsible for the team and for this error.
	www.wakeweekly.com /archives/2003/Feb27-1.html (1307 words)

	INSIDE : inside.mc.duke.edu
		The death of 17-year-old Jesica Santillan after she mistakenly received incompatible organs during transplant surgery has provoked grief, concern, and reflection across America and particularly at Duke University Hospital, where her surgery took place.
		UNOS has confirmed publicly that Jesica was eligible for a second transplant and that the second set of organs became available through customary UNOS procedures, not because of publicity.
		But Jesica was not in a coma; multiple tests had determined that her brain would never again sustain life.
	www.inside.duke.edu /article.php?IssueID=54&ParentID=2977 (1419 words)

	USATODAY.com - Doctors says Jesica has permanent brain damage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Jesica Santillan, the 17-year-old girl who underwent a second heart-lung transplant after the first was botched, was found to have severe and perhaps irreversible brain damage Friday.
		Jesica's mother, Magdalena Santillan, said at a news conference Friday night that she believed hospital officials were not telling her the full story.
		Earlier Friday, as Jesica was wheeled out of her room in intensive care to have a brain scan, she had a blue ventilator hose and other tubes attached to her body, and her head was covered with surgical tissues.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-02-21-girl-transplant_x.htm (889 words)

	The Wake Forest Gazette - Family of Jesica Santillan hires Texas Lawyer - Wake Forest, NC - Louisburg, NC
		Magdalena Santillan, whose 17-year-old daughter Jesica died in February after she was given a heart and lungs with the wrong blood type, has hired a nationally known Texas lawyer to head the legal team seeking redress against Duke University Medical Center.
		Mack Mahoney, a Louisburg builder who has been a friend, benefactor and advocate for Jesica and her family, made the announcement Thursday night along with Kurt Dixon, a Cary lawyer who is an attorney for the family, and Arlene Colon, a Wake Forest lawyer who is the executrix for the Santillan estate.
		Duke's proposal, according to a hospital news release, was made to Magdalena Santillan by Duke President Nan Keohane, and she endorsed the idea of a foundation to assist Latino children and their parents at the hospital.
	hometowncompanion.com /wakeforestgazette/family_hires_texas_lawyer.htm (1101 words)

	CNN.com - Services set for teen in transplant mix-up - Feb. 25, 2003
		Services were planned this week for Jesica Santillan as the state's chief medical examiner performed an autopsy to determine whether a medical error in a heart-lung transplant surgery is what claimed the life of the 17-year-old.
		Santillan's condition deteriorated as she waited for new organs to be found.
		Santillan suffered from cardiomyopathy, a life-threatening condition that weakened her heart and lungs, making transplant surgery necessary for her survival.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/HEALTH/02/25/transplant.error (922 words)

	Marylin's Transplant Page: A Year Of Grief, Changes
		Santillan initially supported the idea, but later, at the urging of Mahoney, asked that Jesica's name be removed from it.
		Santillan said she wants to stay in the United States, because she wants her children to have a better life.
		Jesica's 18th birthday, the day after Christmas, was supposed to have been special -- a passage to adulthood.
	www.marylinstransplantpage.com /year04.htm (1849 words)

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		Jesica Santillan died Saturday at Duke University Medical Center, surrounded by an arsenal of medical technology, top doctors and a network of experts dedicated to transplanting her with organs that could save her life.
		But there was a reason Jesica was not on the original computerized list: Her blood type was not a proper match.
		But Anne Paschke, a spokeswoman for the network, said that Jesica's dire medical situation, not the intense media attention that had focused on the case, had moved her to the head of the list.
	www.vedantam.com /santillan01-2003.html (1310 words)

	Teen dies after transplant error
		Jesica Santillan, the Mexican teenager given organs with the wrong blood type during a heart and lung transplant in North Carolina, was pronounced dead Saturday.
		Jesica had been on life support machines since undergoing her second heart-lung transplant Thursday, two weeks after she was given a heart and lungs with the wrong blood type.
		Jesica, who travelled from a small town near Guadalajara had a heart deformity that kept her lungs from getting oxygen into her blood.
	www.cbc.ca /news/story/2003/02/22/santillan030222.html (1357 words)

	The Wake Forest Gazette - Family of Jesica Santillan hires Texas Lawyer - Wake Forest, NC - Louisburg, NC
		Magdalena Santillan, whose 17-year-old daughter Jesica died in February after she was given a heart and lungs with the wrong blood type, has hired a nationally known Texas lawyer to head the legal team seeking redress against Duke University Medical Center.
		Mack Mahoney, a Louisburg builder who has been a friend, benefactor and advocate for Jesica and her family, made the announcement Thursday night along with Kurt Dixon, a Cary lawyer who is an attorney for the family, and Arlene Colon, a Wake Forest lawyer who is the executrix for the Santillan estate.
		Duke's proposal, according to a hospital news release, was made to Magdalena Santillan by Duke President Nan Keohane, and she endorsed the idea of a foundation to assist Latino children and their parents at the hospital.
	www.hometowncompanion.com /wakeforestgazette/family_hires_texas_lawyer.htm (1101 words)

	02/20/03 - America: Medical Welcome Mat To The World
		No one can deny that the plight of Jesica Santillan, the sick teenager who mistakenly received organs at Duke University from a donor with a different blood type, is a sad one.
		Santillan's family moved from Mexico to North Carolina three years ago in hopes that she could be treated at Duke for restrictive cardiomyopathy, which caused an enlarged, weakened heart and damaged lungs.” [Test Does Not Bar 2nd Transplant By DENISE GRADY, NYT, February 20, 2003]
		They came here illegally by paying a coyote $5,000 to smuggle Santillan and her mother across the border for the express purpose of obtaining medical care and circumventing long wait times in Mexico.
	www.vdare.com /malkin/welcome_mat.htm (681 words)

	Jesica Santillan - Jesica's Hope Chest - Duke Medical Center - Durham,North Carolina
		Jesica was a compassionate teenage girl with a heart of gold and seemed to care more for the other children than herself.
		Since Jesica’s death, I have heard people’s comments on TV and in person about Jesica that really disturb me. I believe the one remark that bothers me the most is the comment; why did a Mexican have priority over a US citizen.
		I believe Jesica would never have received her second transplants had the local and national media not gotten the word out about her failed transplant and the need for a new heart and lungs.
	www.wakeforestnc.com /specialalert.htm (1222 words)

	CNN.com - Hospital: Double transplant teen has no brain activity - Feb. 22, 2003
		Double transplant recipient Jesica Santillan has no brain activity, a hospital spokesman said early Saturday, although the hospital has not officially declared her brain dead.
		Santillan has been clinging to life since shortly after her first transplant February 7, when she was given organs from a donor with an incompatible blood type -- type A, which did not match her O-positive blood -- causing her weakened body to reject them.
		Santillan is on a respirator and a dialysis machine in the hospital's pediatric intensive care unit.
	www.cnn.com /2003/HEALTH/02/21/transplant.error/index.html (925 words)

	Anatomy Of A Mistake, The Tragic Death of Jesica Santillan - CBS News
		Jesica’s blood type, type O, did not match the blood type of her new organs, which were type A. At that point, Dr. Jaggers says, “We had already put in the new organs and we had actually come off the heart-lung machine, off bypass.
		In the days following her operation, Jesica Santillan’s condition rapidly deteriorated, and doctors said her only hope for survival would be a second transplant.
		Jesica Santillan had in fact suffered severe and irreversible brain damage.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/03/16/60minutes/printable544162.shtml (1970 words)

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