Society guideline links: Liver transplantation

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately.

●(See "Society guideline links: Infections in solid organ transplant recipients".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Pediatric liver disease".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Hepatitis C infection in solid organ transplant candidates and recipients".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Management of potential deceased organ donors".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Acute liver failure".)

International

●International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA): Consensus guidelines on liver transplantation for non-resectable colorectal liver metastases (2021)

●International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS), Liver Intensive Care Group of Europe (LICAGE), and Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA): A consensus document on hemodynamic instability during liver transplantation in patients with end-stage liver disease (2021)

●SATA: A position paper for the safety and benefit of transesophageal echocardiography in liver transplant surgery (2020)

●ILTS: Consensus statement on immunosuppression in liver transplant recipients (2018)

●ILTS: Consensus statement on hepatitis C management in liver transplant recipients (2017)

●ILTS: Living donor liver transplant recipient guideline (2017)

United States

●Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN): Policies (2019, updated 2022)

●American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), American Society of Transplantation (AST) and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN): Practice guideline on the evaluation of the pediatric patient for liver transplantation (2014)

●AASLD and the AST: Practice guideline on the evaluation for liver transplantation in adults, 2013 (published 2014)

●AASLD and the AST: Practice guideline on the long-term management of the successful adult liver transplant, 2012 (published 2013)

●AASLD and the AST: Practice guideline on the long-term medical management of the pediatric patient after liver transplantation (2013)

Europe

●Consensus on Managing Modifiable Risk in Transplantation (COMMIT) Group: Practical recommendations for long-term management of modifiable risks in kidney and liver transplant recipients – A guidance report and clinical checklist (2017)

●European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL): Clinical practice guidelines for liver transplantation (2015)

United Kingdom

●UK Liver Advisory Group: Revised recommendations for referral – Liver transplantation for alcohol-related liver disease in the UK (2021)

●British Transplantation Society (BTS) and the British Association for Studies of the Liver (BASL): United Kingdom guidelines on living donor liver transplantation (2015, reviewed 2020)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance for ex-situ machine perfusion for extracorporeal preservation of livers for transplantation (2019)

●BTS: Society guidelines on liver transplantation for patients with non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (2011, reviewed 2015)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on living-donor liver transplantation (2015)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE): Liver cirrhosis – List of guidelines (2020)