AASLD is actively monitoring events related to the COVID-19 pandemic and will provide timely information and resources to support health care providers in hepatology, liver transplantation and gastroenterology as well as their patients and caregivers. This resource page will be updated regularly as more data become available to the AASLD Leadership.
AASLD's "Clinical Insights for Hepatology and Liver Transplant Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic"
This document provides data on what is known about COVID-19, and how it may impact hepatologists and liver transplant providers and their patients. Our aim is to provide a basic template for the development of clinical recommendations and policies to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on liver patients and health care providers. This document will continue to evolve and be reviewed by the authors and AASLD Governing Board, and be revised and updated as needed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read AASLD's Clinical Insights. [Updated: June 25, 2020 | What's New in the June 25 document]
Read the Spanish version of AASLD's Clinical Insights. [Updated: July 1, 2020. Translation of the June 25, 2020 document.]
Read the Portuguese version of AASLD's Clinical Insights. [Updated: June 30, 2020. Translation of the June 25, 2020 document.]
For Patients
NEW! Download the COVID-19 patient flyer.
Upcoming Webinars
Thursday, August 20
AASLD webinar – "COVID-19 & the Liver: The Trainee and Early Career Experience in Hepatology during COVID-19"
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the experience of trainees and early career faculty in hepatology.
This webinar will:
- Offer ways to improve the educational experience for trainees and educators
- Navigate the job application and search process
- Address well-being and burnout during COVID-19
- Discuss concerns over trainee safety and re-deployment to the frontlines
Attendees can submit their COVID-19 questions in advance via this survey. Our experts will select a few questions to discuss during the webinar. Questions must be received by Tuesday, August 18, 11:59 am ET. Once the deadline passes, you can submit your questions directly to the speakers during the live webinar, time permitting.
"COVID-19 and the Liver" Webinar Series
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, AASLD has created a series of webinars dedicated to ongoing discoveries and discussions about how it affects the care of liver patients. These webinars, including those in which we collaborated with sister organizations, are located on the "COVID-19 and the Liver Webinar Series" page.
For the Clinician
- Joint Society Messages
Joint Society Message: Supplemental Funding for VA Research to Support COVID-19 Research Efforts Needed
Read the joint societies' statement.
Joint Society Message: Use of Personal Protective Equipment in GI Endoscopy
Read the joint societies' statement.
Joint Society Message: Gastroenterology Professional Society Guidance on Endoscopic Procedures during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Read the joint societies' statement.
Joint GI Society Message: COVID-19 Clinical Insights for Our Community of Gastroenterologists and Gastroenterology Care Providers
Read the joint GI societies' statement.
AGA issues formal recommendations for PPE during gastrointestinal procedures
Read AGA's recommendations.
AASLD's Clinical and Public Policy Positions
- The Administration
- Congress
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
AASLD joins 200 Organizations in Letter to Administration regarding PPE and Ventilators
What You Can Do
- Actions You Can Take
AASLD seeks COVID-19 Manuscript Submissions
Read the letter from AASLD journal Editors-in-Chief David Cohen, Paul Martin and Gyongyi Szabo.
COVID-19 Discussion Community in Engage
AASLD members have an outlet to share and discuss COVID-19 and how it's affecting care delivery to patients with liver disease.
Write your Congressional Representatives and Senators
Join us and make your voice heard: Use our online advocacy tool to send an email to your legislators about how COVID-19 is impacting you and what needs to be done to protect you, your colleagues and your patients during this urgent time.
Journal References for COVID-19
- AASLD Journal Articles
- Resources from Other Publishers
HEPATOLOGY
- HEPATOLOGY – Clinical Research in Hepatology in the COVID‐19 Pandemic and Post‐Pandemic Era: Challenges and the Need for Innovation
- HEPATOLOGY – Abnormal Liver Tests in COVID‐19: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study of 1827 Patients in a Major U.S. Hospital Network
- HEPATOLOGY – Abnormal liver function tests in COVID‐19 patients: relevance and potential pathogenesis
- HEPATOLOGY – Elevated Liver Biochemistries in Hospitalized Chinese Patients with Severe COVID‐19: Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis
- HEPATOLOGY – Clinical Features of COVID‐19‐Infected Patients With Elevated Liver Biochemistries: A Multicenter, Retrospective Study
- HEPATOLOGY – Acute Liver Injury in COVID‐19: Prevalence and Association with Clinical Outcomes in a Large US Cohort
- HEPATOLOGY – Liver Biochemistries in Hospitalized Patients With COVID‐19
- HEPATOLOGY – COVID‐19 Hangover: A Rising Tide of Alcohol Use Disorder and Alcohol‐Associated Liver Disease
- HEPATOLOGY – Longitudinal association between markers of liver injury and mortality in COVID‐19 in China
- HEPATOLOGY – Clinical Best Practice Advice for Hepatology and Liver Transplant Providers During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: AASLD Expert Panel Consensus Statement
- HEPATOLOGY – Telemedicine in Liver Disease and Beyond: Can the COVID‐19 Crisis Lead to Action?
- HEPATOLOGY – Perioperative Presentation of COVID‐19 Disease in a Liver Transplant Recipient
Clinical Liver Disease
- May 2020 issue – COVID-19 and Liver Disease
Liver Transplantation
- Liver Transplantation – Changes in liver transplant center practice in response to COVID-19: Unmasking dramatic center-level variability
- Liver Transplantation – Liver Transplantation in an ICU dominated by COVID‐19
- Liver Transplantation – Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of COVID‐19 Outbreak on Italian Liver Transplant Programs
- Liver Transplantation – Liver transplantation in an ICU dominated by COVID‐19
- Liver Transplantation – Changes in liver transplant center practice in response to COVID‐19: Unmasking dramatic center‐level variability
- Liver Transplantation – Coronaviruses and immunosuppressed patients. The facts during the third epidemic
Hepatology Communications
- Hepatology Communications – How to survive Covid‐19 even if the vaccine fails
- Hepatology Communications – Liver injury as a surrogate for inflammation and predictor of outcomes in COVID‐19
- Hepatology Communications – Liver Chemistries in Patients with COVID‐19 Who Discharged alive or Died: A Meta‐analysis
- Hepatology Communications – Liver Care and Surveillance: The Global Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic
- Hepatology Communications – Urgent liver transplantation soon after recovery from COVID‐19 in a patient with decompensated liver cirrhosis
- Hepatology Communications – γ‐Glutamyltransferase Elevations Are Frequent in Patients With COVID‐19: A Clinical Epidemiologic Study
- Hepatology Communications – Liver Transplantation in the Time of COVID19: Barriers and Ethical considerations for Management and Next Steps
- Hepatology Communications – Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) in autoimmune hepatitis: a lesson from immunosuppressed patients
Other COVID-19 Resources
- American Medical Association
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Fellow Hepatology, GI and Transplant Organizations
- Food & Drug Administration
- Health & Human Services
- Health Care Resiliency Taskforce
- National Institutes of Health
- SECURE-Cirrhosis
- AABB
- AASLD News
- For Patients