[PREGNANCY AND LIVER CIRRHOSIS: REPORT OF A CASE]

Rev Gastroenterol Peru. 1997 Jan-Apr;17(1):72-74.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Pregnancy in women with liver cirrhosis is unusual, because of the metabolic alterations that the liver disease produces.We report a case of a cirrhotic alcoholic patient who was pregnant twice. The first pregnancy was successful delivering a baby of 2,500g. On the second one, the patient died because of digestive hemorrahage caused esophageal varices the fetus also died.