Pre-existing and Pregnancy-Induced Liver Disease

Suggested Reading

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• Pockros PJ, Reynolds TB: Acute fatty liver of pregnancy. Dig Dis Sci 30:601-602, 1985. Letter.

• Reyes H: The enigma of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy: Lessons from Chile. Hepatology 2:87-96, 1982.

• Reyes H: The spectrum of liver and gastrointestinal disease seen in cholestasis of pregnancy. Gastroenterol Clin North Am 21:905-921, 1992.

• Riely CA: The liver in pregnancy, in Shift ER (ed): Liver Diseases Associated Etiologically With Pregnancy, ed 6. Philadelphia, JP Lippincott Co., 1987, pp 1059-1073.

• Riely CA, Latham PA, Romero R, et al: Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: A reassessment based on observations in nine patients. Ann Intern Med 106:703-706, 1987.

• Rolfes DB, Ishak KG: Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: A clinicopathologic study of 35 cases. Hepatology 5:1149-1158, 1985.

• Samsioe G, Johnson A, Gustafson A: Studies in normal pregnancy. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 54:265-270, 1975.

• Sherlock S: Acute fatty liver of pregnancy and the microvesicular fat diseases. Gut 24:265-269, 1983.

• Shimizu M, Okumura M, Yuh K, et al: Ultrasonically undetectable fatty liver in acute fatty liver of pregnancy and Reye's syndrome. J Clin Ultrasound 13:679-682, 1985.

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