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.