Chronic active hepatitis and pregnancy: a report of two cases in adolescence
Dubois, R.S.; Slovis, T.L.; Tolla, V.; Pensler, L.
American Journal of Gastroenterology 77(9): 649-651
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9270 PMID: 7114028 Document Number: 189318
The course and outcome of pregnancy in two adolescents with chronic active hepatitis is described. Pregnancy was uneventful in both patients apart from mild biochemical deterioration in one patient. Both infants are entirely normal. One mother died 4 1/2 months after delivery from primary pulmonary hypertension, an extrahepatic manifestation of her chronic active hepatitis. The second patient is asymptomatic but has evidence of ongoing liver disease 26 months postdelivery.