Table 3.

Literature Review: Pregnancy Outcome with Portal Hypertension.

Study36–46	Cause of portal hypertension	No. of patients/Pregnancies	Complications		Pregnancy outcome
			Variceal bleed (%)	Decompen-sation (%)	Abortion	Still birth	Live birth
Aggarwal et al 201138	EHPVO	14/27	9 (33.3%)	2	1	1	12
Mandal et al 201244	EHPVO	24/41	10 (24%)	3a	2		39
Ducarme et al 200942	PV Cavernoma	2/2	–	–	–	–	–
Hoekstra et al 201245	PVT	24/45	3 (6.9%)	4	9 (20%)		36
Sumana et al 200839	NCPH	5/12	2 (16.6%)	3	3	–	9
Aggarwal et al 200141	NCPH	27/50	17 (34%)	1	10	6	34
Kochhar et al 199936	NCPH	44/116	13.8%	–	7%	–	107
Pajor et al 199446	cirrhosis	11/12	42%	25%		8%
Aggarwal et al 199937	Cirrhosis	7/9	1 (11.9%)	3a	1	–	8
Shaheen et al 201040	cirrhosis	339/339	5.5%	15%a		6%
Westbrook et al 201143	cirrhosis	29/62	3	3a	27%	4	36

EHPVO – Extra hepatic portal vein obstruction, PVT – Portal vein thrombosis, NCPH – Noncirrhotic portal hypertension.

^aIncludes one maternal death.