• The youngest person in Britain to survive a liver transplant has defied the odds to celebrate her 1st birthday yesterday.
• Lottie clung to life for five weeks until miraculously a donor was found
  
• Lottie’s parents couldn’t be with her following her life-saving operation after the riots in August last year left the hospital in lockdown
• Lottie’s parents have launched a campaign to encourage more organ donors

By Daily Mail Reporter

The youngest person in Britain to survive a liver transplant has defied the odds to celebrate her first birthday yesterday.

Lottie Bryon-Edmond was given just hours to live after being born with a rare condition which gave her toxic levels of iron in her liver.

She went straight to the top of Britain’s transplant list and clung to life for five weeks until a suitable donor was eventually found.

The odds of finding a suitable donor for Lottie were incredibly slim – with just five a year usually coming forward from children who have passed away.

Amazingly, Lottie’s new liver came from a living donor, whose parents are believed to have come forward after reading about the baby’s desperate plight.

Lottie underwent the lifesaving eight-hour operation at Birmingham Children’s Hospital aged just five weeks. Doctors said she could have died at any point during surgery.

The delicate procedure itself offered only a 50 per cent survival rate but Lottie managed to pull through, becoming the youngest person in Britain to live after a transplant.