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

Hepatology International - Tập 11 Số 1 - Trang 1-30 - 2017
Gamal Shiha1, Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim2, Ahmed Helmy3, Shiv Kumar Sarin4, Masao Omata5, Ashish Kumar6, David Bernstien7, Hitushi Maruyama8, Vivek Saraswat9, Yogesh Chawla10, Hamid Salehiniya11, Zaigham Abbas12, Pierre Bédossa13, Puja Sakhuja14, Mamun Elmahatab15, Seng Gee Lim16, Laurentius M. Adrianto Lesmana17, José D. Sollano18, Jidong Jia19, Bahaa Abbas20, Ashraf Omar21, Barjesh C. Sharma22, Diana A. Payawal23, Ahmed Abdallah24, Abdel‐Hamid Serwah25, Abeer Hamed26, Aly M. El-Sayed27, Amany AbdelMaqsod28, Tarek Hassanein29, Ahmed Ihab30, Hamsik GHaziuan31, Nizar N. Zein32, Manoj Kumar4
1Internal Medicine Department, El-Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
2Department of Internal medicine, University of Benha, Benha, Egypt
3Department of Tropical Medicine & Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
4Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi, India
5Department of Gastroenterology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
6Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Ganga Ram Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education & Research of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
7Division of Hepatology, North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York, USA
8Department of Gastroenterology, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
9Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
10Post Graduate Institute of Medial Education & Research, Chandigarh, India
11Department of Medicine, The Aga Khan University & Hospital, Stadium Road, Karachi, Pakistan
12Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan
13Department of Pathology, Physiology and Imaging, University Paris Diderot, Paris, France
14Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India
15Department of Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
16Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
17Department of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
18University of Santo Tomas, España Blvd, Manila, Philippines
19Liver Research Centre at the Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital University in Beijing, Beijing, China
20Department of Internal Medicine, Military Medical Academy, Cairo, Egypt
21Tropical Medicine Department, Cairo Medical School, Cairo, Egypt
22Department of Gastroenterology, GB Pant Hospital, New Delhi, India
23Section of Gastroenterology, Cardinal Santos Medical Center, San Juan City, Metro Manila, Philippines
24Pediatric Hospital, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
25College of Medicine, Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
26Hepatology and Diabetes Unit, Military Medical Academy, Cairo, Egypt
27Hepatology & GIT Department, AHF Center Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
28Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University, Liver Transplant Unit Manial Hospital and Liver ICU French Hospital, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
29Chula Vista Medical Center, Chula Vista, CA, USA
30Molecular Pathology Unit & Research Group, German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
31Department of Hepatology, Nork Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases, Yerevan, Armenia
32Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA

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