Results
Our search retrieved 3118 unique publications. After title and abstract screening, 130 studies were selected for full text eligibility screening. We included 11 studies (with 2901 pregnancies with liver cirrhosis) in the systematic review, of which 7 were eligible for the meta-analysis (Figure 1). The total number of pregnancies with liver cirrhosis included in the meta-analysis was 2685 as well as 4,283,173 pregnancies without liver cirrhosis (control group). Table 1 describes the general characteristics of included studies. All retrieved studies were cohort studies. The etiologies of liver cirrhosis in the included studies corresponded with the most common etiologies of liver cirrhosis in women worldwide.