International guidelines

United Kingdom

Decompensated cirrhosis: an update of the BSG/BASL admission care bundle

Published by:British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG), British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL), Society for Acute Medicine

Last published:2025

Best practice guidance: outpatient management of cirrhosis - part 1: compensated cirrhosis

Published by:British Society of Gastroenterology

Last published:2023

Best practice guidance: outpatient management of cirrhosis - part 2: decompensated cirrhosis

Published by:British Society of Gastroenterology

Last published:2023

Cirrhosis in over 16s: assessment and management

Published by:National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Last published:2023

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt in the management of portal hypertension

Published by:British Society of Gastroenterology

Last published:2020

British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)-led multisociety consensus care bundle for the early clinical management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Published by:British Society of Gastroenterology

Last published:2019

Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in over 16s: management

Published by:National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Last published:2016

UK guidelines on the management of variceal haemorrhage in cirrhotic patients

Published by:British Society of Gastroenterology

Last published:2015 (re-affirmed 2022)

Europe

Renewing consensus in portal hypertension

Published by:Baveno VII

Last published:2022

Endoscopic treatment of variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Published by:European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Last published:2020

Clinical practice guidelines for the management of patients with decompensated cirrhosis

Published by:European Association for the Study of the Liver

Last published:2018

North America

AASLD practice guidance on risk stratification and management of portal hypertension and varices in cirrhosis

Published by:American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases

Last published:2024

Management of anticoagulants and antiplatelets during acute gastrointestinal bleeding and the periendoscopic period

Published by:American College of Gastroenterology; Canadian Association of Gastroenterology

Last published:2022

Rest of the world

Endoscopy in patients on antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy

Published by:British Society of Gastroenterology; European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Last published:2021

Esophageal emergencies

Published by:World Society of Emergency Surgery

Last published:2019

Esophageal varices

Published by:World Gastroenterology Organisation

Last published:2014

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