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after liver transplantation.3 We therefore did not perform a hysterectomy for the menorrhagia. The patient's negative family history and the donor's negative history negate a genetic basis for cholestasis associated with pregnancy or sex hormones. Rejection of a transplant and cyclosporin, however, can induce low grade cholestasis. Oestrogen may have elicited such an underlying defect much as it can unmask primary biliary cirrhosis that first presents as cholestasis (pruritus) during pregnancy.4 Thus after liver transplantation perhaps primed by treatment with cyclosporin oestrogen may elicit cholestasis.