摘要
“Time flies over us,but leaves its shadow behind”(Nathaniel Hawthorne,1860,The Marble Faun).The shadow that separates the latest guidance on vascular liver disorders of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases(AASLD)from its former counterpart is 12 years long(1,2).Along the course,several guidelines from different societies have been published on this topic(3-7).As acknowledged in the preamble,the lack of high-quality evidence in the field led the AASLD to commission a guidance from an expert panel based on formal review and analysis of the literature.It thus differs from other guidelines that perform systematic reviews with explicit methods of searching,selection,and rating the quality of evidence and,if appropriate,meta-analysis on certain clinical questions(2).
