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Volume: 11 Issue: 6 December 2013 - Supplement - 2

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ORAL PRESENTATION
Pregnancy and Delivery After Liver Transplantation: Presentation of 7 Cases

Introduction: Over the last decades, liver transplantation has been the prominent treatment option in patients with end-stage liver failure. Patients who underwent liver transplantation can maintain their usual activities of daily living with a professional care and multidisciplinary follow-up. In this bulletin, we present 7 patients who had an uneventful gestation and delivery after liver transplantation.

Materials and Methods: Between 2002 and 2010, 7 patients at fertility age became pregnant after liver transplantation in our clinic. Mean age was 28. Etiology of end-stage liver disease was chronic Hepatitis B and D in 4 patients, Wilson’s disease in 1 patient, Budd–Chiari syndrome in 1 patient and 1 patient had cryptogenic cirrhosis.

Results: Liver transplantation was performed from living donors in 5 patients and cadaveric donors in 2 patients. Postoperative follow-up was performed with routine office visits in our transplantation policlinic by a multidisciplinary team including supervisor liver transplantation physician, senior transplantation surgeons and gastroenterologists. Along with the gestation and delivery period, patients have been followed closely; immunosuppressive medications have been rearranged and an obstetrician has joined the team. All the patients had an uneventful gestation period and birth without any complications or malformations in the newborns.

Conclusions: Patients who underwent liver transplantation at fertility age can have a usual pregnancy and delivery period with a close follow up performed by a multidisciplinary team.



Volume : 11
Issue : 6
Pages : 56


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1Department of Surgery, Hepatopancreatobiliary and Liver Transplantation Unit, Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey
2Department of Gastroenterology, Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey
3Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey