title: Pregnancy after living related liver transplantation--a report of two cases.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Living related liver transplantation (LRLT) is currently the only available alternative to orthotopic liver transplantation that is of use in children with acute liver failure. There are reports of long-term survival in liver graft recipients who had been transplanted in childhood. In female patients of reproductive age it may also mean ability to conceive.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report 2 cases of successful pregnancies in women after living related liver transplantation. During the 6-month follow-up, no obstetric complications during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum period, and no deterioration of graft function were noted. The neonates were delivered full-term in good general condition, with no signs of intrauterine hypotrophy, congenital malformations or infection, and their psycho-motor development is perfectly normal.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These 2 cases of pregnancies with favorable perinatal outcomes in women after living related liver transplantation, who delivered in our Department with no deterioration of graft function, may be regarded as evidence of full recovery in women after the LRTL procedure.
authors.affiliation: 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of Warsaw, Pl. Starynkiewicza 1/3 Str.,Warsaw, Poland. bnajman@wp.pl
authors.forename: Bożena
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kociszewska-Najman
authors.forename: Bronisława
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pietrzak
authors.forename: Zoulikha
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jabiry-Zieniewicz
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mazanowska
authors.forename: Mirosław
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wielgoś
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome