Magdalena Santillan (R), her husband Melesio Huerta (L), and her niece
America Santillan (C), who is also acting as translator, listen to
questions from the media during a press conference held February 20,
2003 at the Brookwood Inn in Durham, Nort Carolina regarding the
botched heart-lung transplant procedure that took place with her
daughter Jesica Santillan. Jesica received a heart-lung transplant at
Duke University Medical Center with organs that did not match her blood
type and a second set of organs became available to Santillan early
Thursday morning. Doctors have given Jesica a fifty-fifty chance of
surviving the second surgery. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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