a review of the case histories of 53 patients with established cirrhosis who had 83 pregnancies and 38 noncirrhotic patients with varices who had 77 pregnancies suggests that conception may occur in patients with varying degrees of hepatic decompensation , that sustaining gestation to term and delivery is unlikely to overtax cirrhotic livers in patients who are able to conceive , that infertility does not necessarily follow portal decompression operations , that fatal hemorrhage from preexisting esophageal varices is not more likely to occur during gestation , that variceal hemorrhage during pregnancy is not predictable on the basis of individual history of bleeding , and that the risk of variceal bleeding is not increased during vaginal delivery .
C0023890
cirrhosis
C0023884
livers