Acute Medicine | Multidisciplinary Approaches to Maternal Health | Liver disease

Liver disease
This session covers liver disease in pregnancy including preconception care and maternal health during pregnancy and postpartum.

At the end of this session, you should be able to:

• explain the normal physiological changes that occur during pregnancy and how this correlates to symptoms, signs and results
• understand the important considerations of preconception care and how this can impact on a healthy pregnancy; in the context of liver disease this includes hepatitis B and C
• develop a systematic approach to acute problems that may develop during pregnancy or postpartum
• recognise the features and symptoms of concern in a pregnant woman in the context of liver disease to develop the basic knowledge of how to treat and escalate a woman, as appropriate: 
  • intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
  • acute fatty liver of pregnancy
  • HELLP syndrome