Main results
Our study demonstrates that women with liver cirrhosis have increased risks on maternal, fetal and obstetric complications during pregnancy and delivery compared to healthy pregnant women. The maternal mortality rate, although lower in recent studies, remained high at 0.89%, where in the general obstetric population maternal mortality is exceedingly rare at 0.010%. Variceal hemorrhage occurred in 4.0% of pregnancies and remained the most common cause of maternal death among women with liver cirrhosis.