ICP is a kind of complication occured in gestational period featuring with the cutaneous pruritus and Jatmdice. The physiopathologic course is that the metabolic obnormality of hormone and bile acid caused the severe fetal distress even caused the sudden death. The mechanism of the disease hasn' t been discoverd yet and the current popular theory is acute hypoxia. The occurence of ICP is the results of interaction between susceptibility of gene of individual and emironmental factors. Intensifying the monitoring and terminating the pregnancy at the proper time are the main treating mathods to prevent fetal sudden death and reduct the perinatal mortality.
