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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●(See "Society guideline links: Alcoholic liver disease".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Primary biliary cholangitis".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Hyponatremia".)
International
●International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH): Guidance for the periprocedural management of abnormal coagulation parameters and thrombocytopenia in patients with cirrhosis (2021)
Canada
●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't routinely transfuse fresh frozen plasma, vitamin K, or platelets to reverse abnormal tests of coagulation in patients with cirrhosis prior to abdominal paracentesis, endoscopic variceal band ligation, or any other minor invasive procedures (2020)
United States
●American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD): Practice guidance on palliative care and symptom-based management in decompensated cirrhosis (2022)
●American College of Gastroenterology (ACG): Acute-on-chronic liver failure clinical guidelines (2022)
●AASLD: Practice guidance for the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of ascites, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and hepatorenal syndrome (2021)
●American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Clinical practice update on palliative care management in cirrhosis – Expert review (2021)
●American College of Radiology (ACR): Appropriateness Criteria on radiologic management of gastric varices (2020)
●AGA: Clinical practice update on coagulation in cirrhosis – Expert review (2019)
●AGA: Clinical practice update on surgical risk assessment and perioperative management in cirrhosis – Expert review (2019)
●AASLD: 2016 Practice guidance for portal hypertensive bleeding in cirrhosis – Risk stratification, diagnosis, and management (published 2017)
●Choosing Wisely: Don't perform surveillance esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) in patients with compensated cirrhosis and small varices without red signs treated with non-selective beta blockers for preventing a first variceal bleed (2014)
●European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and AASLD: Clinical practice guidelines on hepatic encephalopathy in chronic liver disease (2014)
Europe
●European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL): Clinical practice guidelines on prevention and management of bleeding and thrombosis in patients with cirrhosis (2022)
●EASL: Clinical practice guidelines on the management of hepatic encephalopathy (2022)
●EASL: Clinical practice guidelines on non-invasive tests for evaluation of liver disease severity and prognosis, update (2021)
•EASL-Asociación Latinoamericana para el Estudio del Hígado (ALEH): Clinical practice guidelines on non-invasive tests for evaluation of liver disease severity and prognosis (2015)
●European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE): Cascade guideline for the endoscopic treatment of variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding (2020)
●European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN): Guideline on clinical nutrition in liver disease (2019)
●Liver Intensive Care Group of Europe (LICAGE): Position paper on perioperative hemostatic management in the cirrhotic patient (2019)
●EASL: Clinical practice guidelines for the management of patients with decompensated cirrhosis (2018)
●EASL: Clinical practice guidelines on nutrition in chronic liver disease (2018)
●EASL and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD): Clinical practice guidelines on hepatic encephalopathy in chronic liver disease (2014)
United Kingdom
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on subcutaneous automated low-flow pump implantation for refractory ascites caused by cirrhosis (2018)
●NICE: Quality standard on liver disease (2017)
●NICE: Guideline on cirrhosis in over 16s – Assessment and management (2016)
●UK guidelines on the management of variceal haemorrhage in cirrhotic patients (2015)
Japan
●[In English] Asian-Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL): Consensus guidelines on invasive and non-invasive assessment of hepatic fibrosis – A 2016 update (published 2017)
●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE): Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for liver cirrhosis, 2nd edition (2015)
