The risk of infant and fetal death by each additional week of expectant management in intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy by gestational age

Among women with ICP, delivery at 36 weeks' gestation would reduce the perinatal mortality risk as compared with expectant management. For later diagnoses, this would also be true at gestational ages beyond 36 weeks. Timing of delivery must take into account both the reduction in stillbirth risk balanced with the morbidities associated with preterm delivery.