• SASL is an interdisciplinary group of Swiss scientists, clinicians and translational researchers interested in liver biology and disease. Our mission is to promote research, to disseminate knowledge and to prevent and cure liver disease.

  • Download the new SASL Expert Opinion Statement on Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

  • Corona Virus Pandemic:
    recommendations for patients with liver diseases

  • Corona Virus Pandemie:
    Empfehlungen für Patienten mit Lebererkrankungen

  • Pandémie de SRAS-CoV-2:
    Recommandations pour les patients atteints d'une maladie du foie

  • Pandemia Coronavirus:
    Raccomandazioni per i pazienti con malattie del fegato

  • New regulations for financial support of SASL studies

  • Download the free SASL HCV Advisor app for your smartphone

SASL School of Hepatology

Upcoming Courses:
SASL School Number 36

Monday, 13 Jun 2022, 1730h-1900h
SASL News. David Semela, St. Gallen
Cholangiocarcinoma: diagnosis and treatment . Jesus Banales, San Sebastian
Acute-on-chronic liver failure: clinical management. Patrick Kamath tbc, Rochester

SASL School Number 37

Monday, 12 Sep 2022, 1730h-1900h
SASL news. David Semela, St. Gallen
Portal and mesenteric vein thrombosis. Andrea De Gottardi, Lugano
Viruses and the liver: an amazing journey . Francesco Negro, Geneva

SASL School Number 38

Monday, 12 Dec 2022, 1730h-1900h
SASL news. David Semela, St. Gallen
Management of NAFLD/NASH. Nicolas Goossens, Geneva
Echinococcosis: diagnostics and management. Beat Müllhaupt, Zurich

Calculators

MELD score

Calculates the Model of Endstage Liver Disease Score

Alcoholic hepatitis score calculator

Set of calculators for alcoholic hepatitis

Lille model

A tool for therapeutic strategy in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis treated with steroids

VOCAL-Penn Cirrhosis Surgical Risk Score

VOCAL-Penn predicts post-operative mortality for patients with cirrhosis

CIOMS/RUCAM

Causality assessment of adverse reactions to drugs

HOMA

Homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance

FIPS (Freiburg Index of Post-TIPS Survival)

FIPS is a tool based on age, total bilirubin, serum creatinine and albumin for risk stratification before TIPS implantation (J Hepatol 2021;74,1362-1372)

more calculators

Upcoming Congresses

8th HEP-Preceptorship

20 May 2022 - 21 May 2022, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana and Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale,

TAKING CPSS (congenital portosystemic shunts) TO THE NEXT LEVEL 2ND MEETING OF EXPERTS

1 Jul 2022 - 2 Jul 2022, Centre Médical Universitaire (CMU), Auditorium Alex-F. Müller (A250) Avenue de Champel 7, 1205 Gen

Contacts

University Hospitals
Clarunis - University Center for Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Basel
Inselspital Bern
University Hospital of Zürich
Lausanne University Hospital
Geneva University Hospital

Other Centers
Epatocentro Lugano - Servizio di Epatologia EOC
Kantonsspital St. Gallen
Bethanien Zürich

Membership
SASL Membership Application From

Member Payment

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SASL Zürich
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