Background: The recent literature on intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy raises questions on the best management of such a disease. Improved evidence might be achieved by meta-analyses.
Aim: Providing data for allowing individual patients meta-analyses and aggregate data meta-analyses.
Methods: Data were collected retrospectively at the Fabia Mater Hospital of Rome (Italy), between 2013 and 2018. Several variables were collected and analyzed according to low-level bile acid (less than 40 μmol/L) and high-level bile acid (at least 40 μmol/L). Eighty-three cases of pregnancy cholestasis, diagnosed according to itching symptoms and excluding bile diseases, were collected and analyzed, both descriptively and inferentially.
Conclusion: The analyzed data do not provide significant evidence supporting the use of ursodeoxycholic acid to prevent composite adverse fetal outcomes but they can be included in further meta-analyses.
Keywords: Intrahepatic cholestasis; data set; meta-analysis; outcome; pregnancy; therapy.