Vampire Diaries stars Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev are celebrating after learning an ailing fan they visited in Canada last week (30Mar13) has received a life-saving lung transplant.

The co-stars and real-life couple headed to Toronto on 30 March (13) to spend the day with hospitalised 14-year-old Kayla Baker, and Dobrev received some good news about her progress on Friday (05Apr13).

In a Twitter.com post, she writes, "Sending congratulations to (Kayla) and her family... Her life has been saved. I'm smiling (from) ear to ear."

The Tv beauty also urged fans to follow her lead and register as organ donors, adding, "Ps. I'm an organ donor! Everyone should be! You can save someone's life. I am grateful to Kayla's fearless hero."