Acute-on-chronic liver failure: consensus recommendations of the Asian Pacific Association for the study of the liver (APASL).
The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set up a working party on acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) in 2004, with a mandate to develop consensus guidelines on various aspects of ACLF relevant to disease patterns and clinical practice in the Asia-Pacific region. Experts predominantly from the Asia-Pacific region constituted this working party and were requested to identify different issues of ACLF and develop the consensus guidelines. A 2-day meeting of the working party was held on January 22-23, 2008, at New Delhi, India, to discuss and finalize the consensus statements. Only those statements that were unanimously approved by the experts were accepted. These statements were circulated to all the experts and subsequently presented at the Annual Conference of the APASL at Seoul, Korea, in March 2008. The consensus statements along with relevant background information are presented in this review.
Sarin
Shiv Kumar
SK
Department of Gastroenterology, G. B. Pant Hospital, Affiliated to University of Delhi, Jawahar Lal Nehru Road, New Delhi, 110 002, India, sksarin@nda.vsnl.net.in.
Kumar
Ashish
A
Almeida
John A
JA
Chawla
Yogesh Kumar
YK
Fan
Sheung Tat
ST
Garg
Hitendra
H
de Silva
H Janaka
HJ
Hamid
Saeed Sadiq
SS
Jalan
Rajiv
R
Komolmit
Piyawat
P
Lau
George K
GK
Liu
Qing
Q
Madan
Kaushal
K
Mohamed
Rosmawati
R
Ning
Qin
Q
Rahman
Salimur
S
Rastogi
Archana
A
Riordan
Stephen M
SM
Sakhuja
Puja
P
Samuel
Didier
D
Shah
Samir
S
Sharma
Barjesh Chander
BC
Sharma
Praveen
P
Takikawa
Yasuhiro
Y
Thapa
Babu Ram
BR
Wai
Chun-Tao
CT
Yuen
Man-Fung
MF