Nataline Sarkisyan

American teenager with recurrent leukemia

Nataline Mary Sarkisyan (July 10, 1990 – December 20, 2007) was an American teenager with recurrent leukemia.Her case became part of the health care reform debate in the United States in 2007 when Cigna HealthCare denied coverage for a liver transplant operation.

The company later reversed its decision after a great deal of media attention to her story, but Sarkisyan died hours later.