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.

Y. Chawla | S. Fan | M. Yuen | H. Garg | B. Sharma | S. Sarin | S. Hamid | P. Komolmit | Q. Ning | A. Rastogi | S. Rahman | D. Samuel | Ashish Kumar | John A. Almeida | H. J. Silva | R. Jalan | G. Lau | Qing Liu | K. Madan | R. Mohamed | S. Riordan | P. Sakhuja | Samir A. Shah | Praveen Sharma | Y. Takikawa | B. Thapa | C. Wai | Shiv Kumar | B. C. Sharma | Ashish Kumar | B. R. Thapa | S. Fan | H. J. de Silva | S. Hamid | G. Lau | Y. K. Chawla | Shiv Kumar | Sarin Ae | Ashish Kumar | J. A. Almeida | Ae Yogesh | Kumar Chawla | Sheung Tat | Fan Ae | Ae H Janaka De | Silva Ae | Saeed Sadiq | Hamid Ae | Ae Piyawat | Komolmit Ae | Ae Qing | Liu Ae | K. Madan | Ae Rosmawati | Mohamed Ae | Ae Salimur | Rahman Ae | Ae Stephen | M. Riordan | Ae Didier | Samuel Ae | Ae Barjesh | Chander Sharma | Ae Praveen | Sharma Ae | Ae Babu | Ram Thapa | Ae Chun-Tao | Wai Ae | Á. H. Garg | Á. B. C. Sharma | Á. P. Sharma | P. Sharma | A. Kumar | Á. K. Madan | Á. S. M. Riordan | S. M. Riordan | S. T. Fan | H. J. De Silva | P. Komolmit | Ashish Kumar | John A. Almeida | Y. K. Chawla | Sheung Tat Fan | H. Janaka Silva | Qing Liu | Kaushal Madan | Rosmawati Mohamed | Salimur Rahman | Stephen M. Riordan | Didier Samuel | Praveen Sharma | Chun-Tao Wai | Sarin Ae | J. A. Almeida | Ae Yogesh | Kumar Chawla | Sheung Tat | Fan Ae | Ae H Janaka De | Silva Ae | Saeed Sadiq | Hamid Ae | Ae Piyawat | Komolmit Ae | Ae Qing | Liu Ae | Ae Rosmawati | Mohamed Ae | Ae Salimur | Rahman Ae | Ae Stephen | M. Riordan | Ae Didier | Samuel Ae | Ae Barjesh | Chander Sharma | Ae Praveen | Sharma Ae | Ae Babu | Ram Thapa | Ae Chun-Tao | Wai Ae | Á. H. Garg | Á. B. C. Sharma | Á. P. Sharma | P. Sharma | Á. K. Madan | Á. S. M. Riordan | S. M. Riordan | S. T. Fan | H. J. De Silva | P. Komolmit | Shiv Kumar | Sarin Ae | Ashish Kumar | J. A. Almeida | Ae Yogesh | Kumar Chawla | Sheung Tat | Fan Ae | Ae H Janaka De | Silva Ae | Saeed Sadiq | Hamid Ae | Ae Piyawat | Komolmit Ae | Ae Qing | Liu Ae | Ae Rosmawati | Mohamed Ae | Ae Salimur | Rahman Ae | Ae Stephen | M. Riordan | Ae Didier | Samuel Ae | Ae Barjesh | Chander Sharma | Ae Praveen | Sharma Ae | Ae Babu | Ram Thapa | Ae Chun-Tao | Wai Ae | Á. H. Garg | Á. B. C. Sharma | Á. P. Sharma | Á. K. Madan | Á. S. M. Riordan | S. M. Riordan | S. T. Fan | H. J. De Silva | P. Komolmit

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