TEEN GETS A SECOND TRANSPLANT.(MAIN)

Byline: ROB STEIN Washington Post -

A teenage girl who was near death after surgeons mistakenly implanted a heart and lungs with the wrong blood type into her chest underwent an emergency second transplant Thursday in a desperate attempt to save her life.

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.

The second transplant operation began at about 6 a.m. Thursday after doctors located new organs that were the right blood type and size. To guard against another mistake, the hospital had …