Patient's question:
My cousin is pregnant this year, but she has a disease called gestational acute fatty liver. The baby didn't make it, and she had a C-section. The family is both sad and worried. I want to know what my cousin should pay attention to if she wants to have another child. What are the factors or causes that lead to gestational acute fatty liver?Doctor's answer:
There are two types of liver disease during pregnancy: one is a causal relationship between pregnancy and liver disease, where the liver disease is caused by pregnancy, such as secondary liver damage caused by preeclampsia, intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, and acute liver disease during pregnancy; the other is liver disease concurrent with pregnancy, such as viral hepatitis and drug-induced liver disease. This type of liver disease can also occur during non-pregnancy.