Pregnancy and Chronic Liver Disease

摘要: Pregnancy in patients with chronic liver disease is infrequent because cirrhosis primarily affects postmenopausal women and younger frequently are amenorrheic presumably anovulatory as well. Nevertheless, pregnancy may occur all stages of disease, a careful assessment the risk to mother fetus necessary each case. A favor-able outcome for possible but dependent on type severity underlying condition. Generally, does not worsen concomitant except certain cholestatic diseases such primary biliary cirrhosis. In these patients, improvement cholestasis can be expected following delivery. Liver blood flow thought unaltered pregnancy, although significant increases volume, fluid retention, intraabdominal pressure characterize third trimester.