13. Pregnancy after liver and other transplantation

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Deficiencies in reproductive health counseling in liver transplant recipients

“…11,12,18 Other possible barriers to providing and documenting repro- to allow patients to receive clear and consistent information. [22][23][24] Although our study found stark deficiencies in reproductive health counseling documentation among LT recipients, it does have limitations. While this counseling is likely under-performed, lack of documentation from a retrospective chart review also likely underestimates the true prevalence of counseling that may be occurring outside of a tertiary care setting.…”