 | | Jesica Santillan |
Jesica Santillan, the teenager who urvived a botched heart-lung transplant long enough to get a second set of donated organs, died Saturday, two days after the second transplant. 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. But because of human error, In the first operation, Dr. James Jaggers implanted organs from a donor with type A blood, rather than Jesica's O-positive. She was near death by the time the second set was placed in her body early Thursday. By early Friday, the newest organs were performing well but Jesica's brain was swelled and bleeding. Santillan waited three years for the first transplant. It was widely expected that she would die waiting for a second because 200 people are waiting for heart-lung transplants and the operation is rare. Only 28 such transplants were performed in the first 11 months last year and 27 in 2001. Santillan's friends and family mounted an aggressive media campaign to court a direct organ donation to her and raise awareness for donations. Santillan was at the top of the donor list when the organs became available shortly before midnight Wednesday. Even under normal circumstances, she would face significant odds for a full recovery. About 79 percent of heart-lung recipients survive a month after surgery. Duke officials are still investigating what led to the Feb. 7 error. (Agencies) | 被錯誤地移植了一副不同血型的心肺，然后苦苦支撐直至接受第二次移植的少女杰西卡·桑提連，于2月22日，也就是第二次手術兩天后，停止了呼吸。 17歲的杰西卡因心臟畸形而導致肺部供血不足。2月7日，她接受了心肺移植手術。然而，由于人為原因造成的錯誤，主治醫生詹姆斯·賈格爾斯將一副A型血的器官植入了O+型血的杰西卡體內。直至2月20日，杰西卡才獲得另一副相符的器官，接受了第二次手術，然而，那時的杰西卡已經奄奄一息了。手術后第一天，新植入的器官情況良好，但杰西卡的腦部出現了腫脹和充血。  | | 可憐的杰西卡永遠地閉上了眼睛 |
為了找到合適的心肺進行移植，桑提連已經等了足足三年。第一次手術失敗后，眾人都以為她肯定沒救了。因為有200人在等待合適的心肺接受移植，而這樣的手術是很稀少的。從2002年1月到11月，這樣的手術僅進行了28例，而2001年全年僅有27例。 桑提連的朋友和家人借助媒體大范圍地尋求捐贈器官，并增加了酬金。桑提連的名字一直在受贈器官名單的榜首。19日午夜，符合條件的心肺終于找到了。 但即便是手術的一切情況正常，桑提連痊愈的機會仍然不大。79%的病人在接受心肺移植后僅能存活一個月。 杜克大學醫院的官員正在調查造成2月7日手術事故的原因。 （中國日報網站譯） |
Updated: 2003-02-26 01:00
