1. Liver Cirrhosis Study Group, Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Northern Theater Command (Teaching Hospital of China Medical University), Shenyang, China
2. Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
3. Botucatu Medical School, São Paulo State University (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil
4. Institute of Liver Diseases, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
5. Department of Gastroenterology, Shandong Provincial Hospital, Jinan, China
6. Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Sixth People’s Hospital of Dalian, Dalian, China
7. Department of Gastroenterology, Xi’an Central Hospital, Xi’an, China
8. Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
9. Department of Gastroenterology, The 960th Hospital of Chinese PLA, Jinan, China
10. Department of Clinical and Translational Hepatology, The Liver Institute, Center of Excellence in GI Sciences, Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva, Kerala, India
11. Medica Sur Clinic, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, Mexico
12. Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey
13. Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
14. Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
15. Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Sixth People’s Hospital of Shenyang, Shenyang, China
16. Difficult and Complicated Liver Diseases and Artificial Liver Center, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
17. Division of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
18. Department of Gastroenterology, Air Force Hospital of Northern Theater Command, Shenyang, China
19. Medicina Interna 1, Azienda di Rilievo Nazionale ad Alta Specializzazione Civico-Di Cristina-Benfratelli, Palermo, Italy
20. Department of Hepatology & Gastroenterology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
21. Liver Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China
22. Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
23. Department of Infectious Diseases, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China
24. State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology and National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China