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Mum heartbroken after tiny newborn baby placed on transplant list after being diagnosed with rare disease

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The mum of a tiny baby on the transplant list is desperately hoping a donor will be found to save her little girl's life.Five-month-old Helin Dinler now needs a liver donor or she will not see her second birthday.

The newborn was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia - a rare liver disease that blocks the bile ducts - shortly after birth. Her heartbroken mum Anna Shushura, from Stirling, said doctors realised something was wrong when her daughter, who was born weighing a healthy 9lbs, began losing weight.

At six-weeks-old she underwent surgery on her liver at Leeds Children's Hospital but it was unsuccessful.Her devastated parents have now issued a public appeal to find a liver donor.

Mum-of-two Anna, 36, told the Record: "Helin's diagnosis was heartbreaking. "I had a normal pregnancy and when she was born she seemed healthy and looked perfect. "We couldn't believe it when doctors told us she was so poorly.

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