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The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of
the Liver clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and management of
metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease-2025
, Mohammed Eslam


 

Acute-on-chronic liver failure
(ACLF): the ‘Kyoto Consensus’—steps from Asia


Ashok
Choudhury, Anand V. Kulkarni, Vinod Arora, A. S. Soin, Abdul Kadir Dokmeci,
Abhijeet Chowdhury, Abraham Koshy, Ajay Duseja, Ajay Kumar, Ajay Kumar Mishra,
Ajay Kumar Patwa, Ajit Sood, Akash Roy, Akash Shukla, Albert Chan, Aleksander
Krag, Amar Mukund, Ameet Mandot, Amit Goel, Amna
Subhan Butt, Amrish Sahney, Ananta Shrestha, Andrés Cárdenas, Angelo Di
Giorgio, Anil Arora, Anil Chandra Anand, Anil Dhawan, Ankur Jindal, Anoop
Saraya, Anshu Srivastava, Anupam Kumar, Apichat Kaewdech, Apurva Pande, Archana Rastogi, Arun Valsan,
Ashish Goel, Ashish Kumar, Ashwani K. Singal, Atsushi Tanaka, Audrey Coilly, Ayaskanta Singh, Babu Lal Meena, Barath Jagadisan, Barjesh Chander Sharma, Bikrant Bihari Lal, C. E.
Eapen, Cesar Yaghi, Chandan Kumar Kedarisetty, Chang Wook Kim, Charles
Panackel, Chen Yu, Chetan R. Kalal, Chhagan Bihari,
Chien Hao Huang, Chitranshu Vasishtha, Christian
Jansen, Christian Strassburg, Chun Yen Lin, Constantine J. Karvellas,
Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Cyriac Abby Philips, Debbie Shawcross, Dharmesh
Kapoor, Dhiraj Agrawal, Diana Alcantara Payawal, Dibya Lochan Praharaj, Dinesh
Jothimani, Do Seon Song, Dong Joon Kim, Dong-Sik Kim, Duan Zhongping, Fazal
Karim, Francois Durand, Gamal E. Shiha, Gennaro
D’Amico, George K. Lau, Girish Kumar Pati, Graciela Elia Castro Narro,
Guan-Huei Lee, Gupse Adali, Guru Prasad Dhakal, Gyongyi Szabo, H. C. Lin, Hai Li, Hari Kumar Nair, Harshad Devarbhavi, Harshvardhan Tevethia, Hasmik Ghazinian, Hemamala Ilango, Hong Ling Yu, Irsan Hasan, J. Fernandez, Jacob George, Jaideep Behari,
James Fung, Jasmohan Bajaj, Jaya Benjamin, Jennifer C. Lai, Jidong Jia, Jin Hua
Hu, Jin Jun Chen, Jin Lin Hou, Jin Mo Yang, Johannes Chang, Jonel Trebicka,
Jörg C. Kalf, Jose D. Sollano, Joy Varghese, Juan Pablo Arab, Jun Li, K. Rajender
Reddy, Kaiser Raja, Kalpana Panda, Kamal Kajal, Karan Kumar, Kaushal Madan,
Kemal Fariz Kalista, Kessarin Thanapirom,
Khin Maung Win, Ki Tae Suk, Krishnadas Devadas, Laurentius A. Lesmana, Lubna
Kamani, Madhumita Premkumar, Madunil A. Niriella, Mamun Al Mahtab, Man Fung Yuen, Manal HEl Sayed, Manasa Alla, Manav
Wadhawan, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Manoj Sahu, Manya Prasad, Mark Dhinesh Muthiah,
Martin Schulz, Meenu Bajpai, Mettu Srinivas Reddy,
Michael Praktiknjo, Ming Lung Yu, Mithra Prasad, Mithun Sharma, Mohamed
Elbasiony, Mohammed Eslam, Mohd. Golam Azam, Mohd. Rela, Moreshwar S. Desai,
Mukul Vij, Nadim Mahmud, Narendra Singh Choudhary, Navin Kumar Marannan, Necati
Ormeci, Neeraj Saraf, Nipun Verma, Nobuaki Nakayama, Norifumi Kawada, Oidov Baatarkhuu, Omesh Goyal, Osamu Yokosuka, P. N. Rao, Paolo
Angeli, Pathik Parikh, Patrick S. Kamath, Paul J. Thuluvath,
Philipp Lingohr, Piyush Ranjan, Prashant Bhangui, Pravin Rathi, Puja Sakhuja,
Puneet Puri, Qin Ning, R. K. Dhiman, Rahul Kumar, Rajan Vijayaraghavan, Rajeev
Khanna, Rakhi Maiwall, Ravi Mohanka, Richard Moreau, Rino Alvani Gani, Rohit
Loomba, Rohit Mehtani, Ruveena Bhavani Rajaram, S. S.
Hamid, Sachin Palnitkar, Sadhna Lal, Sagnik Biswas, Sakkarin Chirapongsathorn, Samagra Agarwal, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Sanjiv Saigal, Santhosh E. Kumar, Sargsyan Violeta,
Satender Pal Singh, Satoshi Mochida, Saurabh Mukewar, Seema Alam, Seng Gee Lim, Shahinul Alam, Shalimar, Shantan Venishetty, Shikha
S. Sundaram, Shiran Shetty, Shobna Bhatia, Shweta A. Singh, Shyam Kottilil,
Simone Strasser, S. M. Shasthry, Soe Thiha Maung, Soek Siam Tan, Sombat Treeprasertsuk, Sonal Asthana,
Steffen Manekeller, Subhash Gupta, Subrat Kumar Acharya, Sudhamshu K.C., Sudhir
Maharshi, Sumeet Asrani, Sunil Dadhich, Sunil Taneja, Suprabhat Giri, Surender
Singh, Tao Chen, Tarana Gupta, Tatsuo Kanda, Tawesak Tanwandee, Teerha Piratvishuth, Ulrich Spengler, V. G. Mohan Prasad, Vandana
Midha, Venera Rakhmetova, Vicente Arroyo, Vikrant
Sood, Vinay Kumar BR, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Viniyendra Pamecha, Virendra Singh,
Vishwa Mohan Dayal, Vivek A. Saraswat, WRay Kim,
Wasim Jafri, Wenyi Gu, Wong Yu Jun, Xiaolong Qi, Yogesh K. Chawla, Yoon Jun
Kim, Yu Shi, Zaigham Abbas, Guresh Kumar, Shuichiro Shiina, Lai Wei, Masao Omata, Shiv Kumar
Sarin, APASL-ACLF Research Consortium (AARC) for APASL-ACLF
working party

Hepatol Int2025 Feb; 19(1):
1–69. Published online 2025 Feb 17. doi: 10.1007/s12072-024-10773-4
(NIH 1 citation)


 


 


 

Management of acute variceal bleeding:
updated APASL guidelines


 

Hepatology
International (2025) 19:1003–1031

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12072-025-10894-4

Published
online: 31 August 2025

Cosmas
Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana1,2,3 · Akash Shukla4,5 · Ashish Kumar6 · Shalimar7 ·
Xiaolong Qi8 ·

Rino
Alvani Gani1 · Ze
Hao Zhuang9 · Abdul Kadir
Dokmeci10 · Gin Ho Lo11 · Hitoshi Maruyama12 · Ji
Dong Jia13 ·

Anand
V. Kulkarni14 · Jason Chang15 · Necati Ormeci16 · Gamal Shiha17 · Hasnain Ali
Shah18 · Jose D. Sollano19 ·

Sahaj
Rathi20 · Tan Soek Siam21 · George K. Lau22 · Rungsun
Rerknimitr23 · Ming
Chih Hou24 · Juferdy Kurniawan1 ·

Guohong Han25 · Amar Mukund26 · Sanjay Saran Baijal27 · Shiv. Kumar
Sarin26

Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver clinical practice
guidelines on liver transplantation-2024

Dong-Sik Kim 1Young-In Yoon 2Beom Kyung Kim 3Ashok Choudhury 4Anand Kulkarni 5Jun Yong Park 3Jongman Kim 6Dong Hyun Sinn 7Dong Jin Joo 8YoungRok Choi 9Jeong-Hoon Lee 10Ho Joong Choi 11Ki Tae Yoon 12Sun Young Yim 13Cheon-Soo Park 14Deok-Gie Kim 8Hae Won Lee 15Won-Mook Choi 16Young Eun Chon 17Woo-Hyoung Kang 2Jinsoo Rhu 6Jae Geun Lee 8Yuri Cho 18Pil Soo Sung 19Han Ah Lee 20Ji Hoon Kim 13Si Hyun Bae 19Jin Mo Yang 21Kyung-Suk Suh 22Mamun Al Mahtab 23Soek Siam Tan 24Zaigham Abbas 25Ananta Shresta 26Shahinul Alam 27Anil Arora 28Ashish Kumar 28Pravin Rathi 29Ruveena Bhavani 30Charles Panackel 31Kuei Chuan Lee 32Jun Li 33Ming-Lung Yu 34Jacob George 35Tawesak Tanwandee 36Sen-Yung Hsieh 37Chee Chien Yong 37Mohamed Rela 38H C Lin 39Masao Omata 40 41Shiv Kumar Sarin 4for Asian Pacific
Association for Study of Liver (APASL)
, NIH 22
cites


“Cherry blossom” in Kyoto brought
hope to patients with chronic hepatitis B infection


Jing
Chen, Ji-Dong Jia, Hui Zhuang, Yu-Mei Wen, Shiv Kumar Sarin, Masao Omata,
George Lau, On behalf of APASL Viral Elimination
Taskforce (in no particular order)

Hepatol Int2024 Oct; 18(5): 1431–1433. Published online 2024 Aug 27. doi: 10.1007/s12072-024-10705-2


 

APASL
clinical practice guidelines on the management of acute kidney injury in
acute-on-chronic liver failure

Rakhi Maiwall 1Satender Pal Singh 1Paolo Angeli 2Richard Moreau 3 4 5Aleksander Krag 6 7Virender Singh 8Ashwani K Singal 9S S Tan 10Puneet Puri 11Mamun Mahtab 12George Lau 13 14Qin Ning 15 16 17Manoj Kumar Sharma 1P N Rao 18Dharmesh Kapoor 19Subhash Gupta 20Ajay Duseja 21Manav Wadhawan 22Dinesh Jothimani 23Sanjiv Saigal 24Sunil Taneja 21Akash Shukla 25Pankaj Puri 26Deepak Govil 27Gaurav Pandey 28Kaushal Madan 24C E Eapen 29Jaya Benjamin 30Ashok Chowdhury 1Shweta Singh 31Vaishali Salao 32Jin Mo Yang 33Saeed Hamid 34Shalimar 35Sanjiv Jasuja 36Anand V Kulkarni 37Madund A
Niriella
 
38Harsh Vardhan Tevethia 1Vinod Arora 1R P Mathur 39Akash Roy 40Ankur Jindal 1Neeraj Saraf 41Nipun Verma 21Arka De 21Narendra S Choudhary 42Rohit Mehtani 25Phool Chand 1Omkar Rudra 1Shiv Kumar Sarin NIH cites 9


 


 

APASL clinical practice guidelines on systemic therapy for hepatocellular
carcinoma-2024

George Lau 1Shuntaro Obi 2Jian Zhou 3Ryosuke Tateishi 4Shukui Qin 5Haitao Zhao 6Motoyuki Otsuka 7Sadahisa Ogasawara 8Jacob George 9Pierce K H Chow 10Jianqiang Cai 11Shuichiro Shiina 12Naoya Kato 13Osamu Yokosuka 14Kyoko Oura 15Thomas Yau 16Stephen L Chan 17Ming Kuang 18Yoshiyuki Ueno 19Minshan Chen 20Ann-Lii Cheng 21Gregory Cheng 22 23Wan-Long Chuang 24Oidov Baatarkhuu 25Feng Bi 26Yock Young Dan 27Rino A Gani 28Atsushi Tanaka 29Wasim Jafri 30Ji-Dong Jia 31Jia-Horng Kao 32Kiyoshi Hasegawa 33Patrick Lau 22Jeong Min Lee 34Jun Liang 35Zhenwen Liu 36Yinying Lu 37Hongming Pan 38Diana A Payawal 39Salimur Rahman 40Jinsil Seong 41Feng Shen 42Gamal Shiha 43 44 45 46Tianqiang Song 47Hui-Chuan Sun 48Tsutomu Masaki 15Ekaphop Sirachainan 49Lai Wei 50Jin Mo Yang 51Jose D Sallano 52Yanqiao Zhang 53Tawesak Tanwandee 54AKadir Dokmeci 55Shu-Sen Zheng 56Jia Fan 57Sheung-Tat Fan 58Shiv Kumar Sarin 59Masao Omata NIH
citations 8 


 

Non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis/idiopathic portal hypertension: APASL
recommendations for diagnosis and management-2024

Akash
Shukla
 1Don
C Rockey
 2Patrick
S Kamath
 3David
E Kleiner
 4Ankita
Singh
 1Arun
Vaidya
 1Abraham
Koshy
 5Ashish
Goel
 6A
Kadir Dökmeci
 7Babulal
Meena
 8Cyriac
Abby Philips
 9Chhagan Bihari Sharma 10Diana
A Payawal
 11Dong
Joon Kim
 12Gin-Ho
Lo
 13Guohong Han 14Huma
Qureshi
 15Ian
R Wanless
 16Jidong
Jia
 17Jose
D Sollano
 18Mamun
Al Mahtab
 19Mark
Dhinesh Muthiah
 20 21 22Mark
W Sonderup
 23Mendez
Sanchez Nahum
 24Mohamed
Ismail Bin Merican
 25Necati
Ormeci
 26Norifumi Kawada 27Rajender
Reddy
 28R K
Dhiman
 29Rino
Gani
 30Saeed
S Hameed
 31Sidharth
Harindranath
 1Wasim
Jafri
 31Xiaolong
Qi
 32Yogesh
Kumar Chawla
 33Yoshihiro
Furuichi
 34Ming-Hua
Zheng
 35 36Shiv
Kumar Sarin
NIH cites 3

Budd-Chiari syndrome: consensus guidance of the Asian Pacific Association
for the study of the liver (APASL)-2021

Akash Shukla 1Ananta Shreshtha 2Amar Mukund 3Chhagan Bihari 3C E Eapen 4Guohong Han 5Hemant Deshmukh 6Ian Homer Y Cua 7Cosmas Rinaldi
Adithya Lesmana
 8 9Mamun Al Meshtab 10 11Masayoshi Kage 12Roongruedee Chaiteeraki 13Sombat
Treeprasertsuk
 13Suprabhat Giri 12Sundeep Punamiya 14Valerie Paradis 15Xingshun Qi 16Yasuhiko Sugawara 17Zaigham Abbas 18Shiv Kumar Sarin     NIH cites76

The Asian Pacific Association
for the Study of the Liver clinical practice guidance: the diagnosis and
management of patients with autoimmune hepatitis


Guiqiang Wang, Atsushi Tanaka, Hong Zhao, Jidong Jia, Xiong Ma,
Kenichi Harada, Fu-Sheng Wang, Lai Wei, Qixia Wang,
Ying Sun, Yuan Hong, Huiying Rao, Cumali Efe, George Lau, Diana Payawal, Rino
Gani, Keith Lindor, Wasim Jafri, Masao Omata, Shiv Kumar Sarin

Hepatol Int2021 Apr; 15(2): 223–257. Published online 2021 May 4. doi: 10.1007/s12072-021-10170-1, NIH citations 76

Pre-existing liver disease is
associated with poor outcome in patients with SARS CoV2 infection; The APCOLIS
Study (APASL COVID-19 Liver Injury Spectrum Study)


Shiv
Kumar Sarin, Ashok Choudhury, George K. Lau, Ming-Hua Zheng, Dong Ji, Sherief
Abd-Elsalam, Jaeseok Hwang, Xiaolong Qi, Ian Homer
Cua, Jeong Ill Suh, Jun Gi Park, Opass Putcharoen, Apichat Kaewdech, Teerha Piratvisuth, Sombat Treeprasertsuk,
Sooyoung Park, Salisa Wejnaruemarn, Diana A. Payawal,
Oidov Baatarkhuu, Sang Hoon Ahn, Chang Dong Yeo, Uzziel Romar Alonzo,
Tserendorj Chinbayar, Imelda M. Loho,
Osamu Yokosuka, Wasim Jafri, Soeksiam Tan, Lau Ing
Soo, Tawesak Tanwandee, Rino Gani, Lovkesh Anand, Eslam
Saber Esmail, Mai Khalaf, Shahinul Alam, Chun-Yu Lin,
Wan-Long Chuang, A. S. Soin, Hitendra K. Garg, Kemal Kalista, Badamnachin Batsukh, Hery Djagat Purnomo, Vijay Pal Dara, Pravin Rathi, Mamun Al
Mahtab, Akash Shukla, Manoj K. Sharma, Masao Omata, APASL COVID
Task Force, APASL COVID Liver Injury Spectrum Study (APCOLIS
Study-NCT 04345640)

Hepatol Int2020 Sep; 14(5): 690–700. Published online 2020 Jul 4. doi: 10.1007/s12072-020-10072-8, NIH citations 264

The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of
the Liver clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and management of
metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease-2020
Mohammed Eslam, Springer
cites 739


Clinical practice guidance
for hepatology and liver transplant providers during the COVID-19
pandemic: APASL expert panel consensus recommendations


APASL Covid-19 Task Force, George Lau, Manoj Sharma

Hepatol Int2020 Jul; 14(4): 415–428. Published online 2020 May 23. doi: 10.1007/s12072-020-10054-w, NIH citations 102


 

APASL practical recommendations for
the management of hepatocellular carcinoma in the era of COVID-19


Shuichiro
Shiina, Rino A. Gani, Osamu Yokosuka, Hitoshi Maruyama, Hiroaki Nagamatsu,
Diana Alcantara Payawal, A. Kadir Dokmeci, Laurentius A. Lesmana, Tawesak
Tanwandee, George Lau, Shiv Kumar Sarin, Masao Omata

Hepatol Int2020 Dec; 14(6): 920–929. Published online 2020 Nov 11. doi: 10.1007/s12072-020-10103-4, NIH citations 32

Acute-on-chronic liver failure:
consensus recommendations of the Asian Pacific association for the study of the
liver (APASL): an update


Shiv
Kumar Sarin, Ashok Choudhury, Manoj K. Sharma, Rakhi Maiwall, Mamun Al Mahtab, Salimur Rahman, Sanjiv Saigal, Neeraj Saraf, A. S. Soin,
Harshad Devarbhavi, Dong Joon Kim, R. K. Dhiman, Ajay Duseja, Sunil Taneja, C.
E. Eapen, Ashish Goel, Q. Ning, Tao Chen, Ke Ma, Z. Duan, Chen Yu, Sombat Treeprasertsuk, S. S. Hamid, Amna S. Butt, Wasim Jafri,
Akash Shukla, Vivek Saraswat, Soek Siam Tan, Ajit
Sood, Vandana Midha, Omesh Goyal, Hasmik Ghazinyan, Anil Arora, Jinhua Hu,
Manoj Sahu, P. N. Rao, Guan H. Lee, Seng G. Lim, Laurentius A. Lesmana, Cosmas
Rinaldi Lesmana, Samir Shah, V. G. Mohan Prasad, Diana A. Payawal, Zaigham
Abbas, A. Kadir Dokmeci, Jose D. Sollano, Gian Carpio, Ananta Shresta, G. K.
Lau, Md. Fazal Karim, Gamal Shiha, Rino Gani, Kemal
Fariz Kalista, Man-Fung Yuen, Seema Alam, Rajeev Khanna, Vikrant Sood, Bikrant
Bihari Lal, Viniyendra Pamecha, Ankur Jindal, V.
Rajan, Vinod Arora, Osamu Yokosuka, Madunil A. Niriella, Hai Li, Xiaolong Qi, Atsushi Tanaka, Satoshi
Mochida, Dominic Ray Chaudhuri, Ed Gane, Khin Maung Win, Wei Ting Chen, Mohd.
Rela, Dharmesh Kapoor, Amit Rastogi, Pratibha Kale, Archana Rastogi, Chhagan Bihari Sharma, Meenu Bajpai, Virender Singh,
Madhumita Premkumar, Sudhir Maharashi, A. Olithselvan,
Cyriac Abby Philips, Anshu Srivastava, Surender K. Yachha,
Zeeshan Ahmad Wani, B. R. Thapa, Anoop Saraya, Shalimar, Ashish Kumar, Manav
Wadhawan, Subash Gupta, Kaushal Madan, Puja Sakhuja, Vivek Vij, Barjesh C. Sharma, Hitendra Garg, Vishal Garg, Chetan
Kalal, Lovkesh Anand, Tanmay Vyas, Rajan P. Mathur, Guresh Kumar, Priyanka Jain, Samba Siva Rao Pasupuleti,
Yogesh K. Chawla, Abhijit Chowdhury, Shahinul Alam,
Do Seon Song, Jin Mo Yang, Eileen L. Yoon, APASL ACLF Research
Consortium (AARC) for APASL ACLF working Party.

Hepatol Int2019 Jul; 13(4): 353–390. Published online 2019 Jun 6. doi: 10.1007/s12072-019-09946-3, citation NIH 819

APASL HCV guidelines of
virus-eradicated patients by DAA on how to monitor HCC occurrence and HBV
reactivation


Tatsuo
Kanda, George K. K. Lau, Lai Wei, Mitsuhiko Moriyama,
Ming-Lung Yu, Wang-Long Chuang, Alaaeldin Ibrahim, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya
Lesmana, Jose Sollano, Manoj Kumar, Ankur Jindal, Barjesh Chander Sharma, Saeed S. Hamid, A. Kadir Dokmeci, Mamun-Al-Mahtab, Geoffrey W.
McCaughan, Jafri Wasim, Darrell H. G. Crawford, Jia-Horng Kao, Yoshihiko Ooka,
Osamu Yokosuka, Shiv Kumar Sarin, Masao Omata

Hepatol Int2019 Nov; 13(6): 649–661. Published online 2019 Sep 20. doi: 10.1007/s12072-019-09988-7, NIH citations102

APASL clinical practice
recommendation: how to treat HCV-infected patients with renal impairment?


Tatsuo
Kanda, George K. K. Lau, Lai Wei, Mitsuhiko Moriyama,
Ming-Lung Yu, Wang-Long Chuang, Alaaeldin Ibrahim, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya
Lesmana, Jose Sollano, Manoj Kumar, Ankur Jindal, Barjesh Chander Sharma, Saeed S. Hamid, A. Kadir Dokmeci, Mamun-Al-Mahtab, Geofferey W. McCaughan, Jafri Wasim, Darrell H. G.
Crawford, Jia-Horng Kao, Osamu Yokosuka, Shiv Kumar Sarin, Masao Omata

Hepatol Int2019 Mar; 13(2): 103–109. Published online 2018 Dec 11. doi: 10.1007/s12072-018-9915-5, NIH citations 36

Asia–Pacific clinical practice guidelines on
the management of hepatocellular carcinoma: a 2017 update


Masao
Omata, Ann-Lii Cheng, Norihiro Kokudo, Masatoshi Kudo, Jeong Min Lee, Jidong Jia, Ryosuke Tateishi, Kwang-Hyub Han, Yoghesh K. Chawla,
Shuichiro Shiina, Wasim Jafri, Diana Alcantara Payawal, Takamasa Ohki, Sadahisa
Ogasawara, Pei-Jer Chen, Cosmas Rinaldi A. Lesmana, Laurentius A. Lesmana, Rino
A. Gani, Shuntaro Obi, A. Kadir Dokmeci, Shiv Kumar Sarin

Hepatol Int2017 Jul; 11(4): 317–370. Published online 2017 Jun 15. doi: 10.1007/s12072-017-9799-9, NIH citations 2173

Asian-Pacific clinical practice guidelines on
the management of hepatitis B: a 2015 update


S.
K. Sarin, M. Kumar, G. K. Lau, Z. Abbas, H. L. Y. Chan, C. J. Chen, D. S. Chen,
H. L. Chen, P. J. Chen, R. N. Chien, A. K. Dokmeci,
Ed Gane, J. L. Hou, W. Jafri, J. Jia, J. H. Kim, C. L. Lai, H. C. Lee, S. G.
Lim, C. J. Liu, S. Locarnini, M. Al Mahtab, R.
Mohamed, M. Omata, J. Park, T. Piratvisuth, B. C.
Sharma, J. Sollano, F. S. Wang, L. Wei, M. F. Yuen, S. S. Zheng, J. H. Kao

Hepatol Int2016 Jan; 10(1): 1–98. Published online 2015 Nov 13. doi: 10.1007/s12072-015-9675-4,
NIH 2860 cites


APASL consensus statements and
recommendations for hepatitis C prevention, epidemiology, and laboratory
testing


Masao
Omata, Tatsuo Kanda, Lai Wei, Ming-Lung Yu, Wang-Long Chuang, Alaaeldin
Ibrahim, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Jose Sollano, Manoj Kumar, Ankur
Jindal, Barjesh Chander Sharma, Saeed S. Hamid, A.
Kadir Dokmeci, Mamun Al-Mahtab, Geofferey W.
McCaughan, Jafri Wasim, Darrell H. G. Crawford, Jia-Horng Kao, Osamu Yokosuka,
George K. K. Lau, Shiv Kumar Sarin

Hepatol Int2016 Sep; 10(5): 681–701. Published online 2016 May 26. doi: 10.1007/s12072-016-9736-3, NIH 109 cites


 

APASL consensus statements and
recommendation on treatment of hepatitis C


Masao
Omata, Tatsuo Kanda, Lai Wei, Ming-Lung Yu, Wang-Long Chuang, Alaaeldin
Ibrahim, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Jose Sollano, Manoj Kumar, Ankur
Jindal, Barjesh Chander Sharma, Saeed S. Hamid, A.
Kadir Dokmeci, Mamun-Al-Mahtab, Geofferey W.
McCaughan, Jafri Wasim, Darrell H. G. Crawford, Jia-Horng Kao, Osamu Yokosuka,
George K. K. Lau, Shiv Kumar Sarin

Hepatol Int2016 Sep; 10(5): 702–726. Published online 2016 Apr 29. doi: 10.1007/s12072-016-9717-6, NIH 253 cites

Asian-Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) consensus
guidelines on invasive and non-invasive assessment of hepatic fibrosis: a 2016
update

Gamal Shiha 1 2Alaa Ibrahim 3Ahmed Helmy 4Shiv Kumar Sarin 5Masao Omata 6Ashish Kumar 7David Bernstien 8Hitushi Maruyama 9Vivek Saraswat 10Yogesh Chawla 11Saeed Hamid 12Zaigham Abbas 13Pierre Bedossa 14Puja Sakhuja 15Mamun Elmahatab 16Seng Gee Lim 17Laurentius Lesmana 18Jose Sollano 19Ji-Dong Jia 20Bahaa Abbas 21Ashraf Omar 22Barjesh Sharma 23Diana Payawal 24Ahmed Abdallah 25Abdelhamid Serwah 26Abdelkhalek Hamed 27Aly Elsayed 28Amany AbdelMaqsod 29Tarek Hassanein 30Ahmed Ihab 31Hamsik GHaziuan 32Nizar Zein 33Manoj Kumar 5, NIH
272 cites


Acute-on-chronic liver failure: consensus recommendations of the Asian
Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) 2014

Shiv Kumar Sarin 1Chandan Kumar
Kedarisetty
 2Zaigham Abbas 3Deepak Amarapurkar 4Chhagan Bihari 5Albert C Chan 6Yogesh Kumar Chawla 7A Kadir Dokmeci 8Hitendra Garg 2Hasmik Ghazinyan 9Saeed Hamid 10Dong Joon Kim 11Piyawat Komolmit 12Suman Lata 13Guan Huei Lee 14Laurentius A Lesmana 15Mamun Mahtab 16Rakhi Maiwall 2Richard Moreau 17 18 19Qin Ning 20Viniyendra Pamecha 21Diana Alcantara
Payawal
 22Archana Rastogi 5SalimurRahman 16Mohamed Rela 23Anoop Saraya 24Didier Samuel 25Vivek Saraswat 26Samir Shah 27Gamal Shiha 28Brajesh Chander
Sharma
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