A young Scottish woman who was in urgent need of a life-saving liver transplant has tragically passed away.
Casey Adams, from Fife, died on May 17 after battling Autoimmune Hepatitis - an illness which causes liver inflammation when your body's immune system turns against liver cells.
Sadly the 21-year-old's condition had deteriorated by March 2022 and she was told she needed an urgent liver transplant, reports the Record.
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Speaking to the Sun previously, her family explained that she was unable to receive a transplant because of issues she had with anti-rejection medications from a transplant back in 2016.
The family set up a fundraiser to pay for a private operation abroad which was expected to cost £200,000 but Casey sadly died before the life saving operation.
Mum Louise posted on the fundraising page: "With the heaviest of broken hearts this update is the one we didn't want to write.
"After a very hard fight, yesterday, Friday the 27th of May surrounded by all her family and friends, Casey grew her wings and left us all for heaven.
"As a family we would like to thank you all, from the bottom of our hearts, for the support you have shown in what is the most difficult time of our lives. We want you all to know that your support whether it be donations, shares or words of comfort has really meant the world to us.
"We would now appreciate some privacy to try and begin to process and come to terms with our huge loss."
Louise had previously said that her daughter had suffered from AIH since she was 10 years-old causing her body to attack her liver and was diagnosed after suffering symptoms for five years when she fell sick and turned jaundiced after a family holiday.
Casey then spent a year on the transplant list and received a new liver just four days before her 16th birthday in November in 2016 however the organ was failing and she was told she needed a new transplant in March 2022.
Louise previously told the Sun: "She’s not had a chance to have her life yet.
"She was extremely unwell so couldn't go to school - and the extreme trauma of the situation took its toll.
"She's been diagnosed with severe PTSD and anxiety because she didn't have time to process what was happening to her.
“She is absolutely terrified, she just wants to live.”
NHS Blood and Transplant national guidelines state that re-transplants need “special consideration depending on the circumstances that gave rise to the need for re-transplant”.
It adds that “results after re-transplant are worse than for first transplants and only limited benefit may be achieved”.
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An NHS Blood and Transplant spokesperson told the Express : “If a centre decides that it is not appropriate to list a patient for transplant, then that patient will always be supported by having a second independent opinion from another transplant centre.
“This practice is routine amongst all UK transplant units. However, there will be times when difficult decisions have to be made and it won’t be possible for a patient to be listed.”
Money fundraised will now go towards supporting Casey's family.
