Mother donates part of her own liver to save 8-year-old daughter’s life

Saving more lives through improving organ donation

Every day, more than 100,000 Americans wait for an organ transplant that could save and transform their lives. Despite over a decade of reaching record donor and transplant numbers in the U.S. each year, the need remains high. August is National Multiethnic Donor Awareness Month, a time to call attention to the improvement and innovation needed to meet the needs of those waiting.  There are three aspects of donation where we can drive change: tr…

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Mother donates part of her own liver to save 8-year-old daughter’s life

When an 8-year-old girl diagnosed with a rare and serious liver disease needed a transplant, her mother looked within and found the strength to donate.

Courtney Kidd Faces Life-Threatening Liver Disease and Awaits Living Donor Transplant in New York - TDPel Media

For Courtney Kidd, the news came like a thunderbolt. At just 19, she learned that without a new liver, her life would be in jeopardy. Already diagnosed with Crohn’s disease five years earlier, the New York native discovered elevated liver enzymes during routine bloodwork, leading doctors to suspect something more serious. An MRI later confirmed she had primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), a progressive liver disease that causes scarring inside …