Fares A. Mashal

Assistant Professor

UAMS

Also affiliated: University of Arkansas Medical Center (2026); Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (2024–2025)

COM | Internal Med Hospital Medicine

2 h-index 8 pubs 8 cited

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Fares Mashal is an Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. His research focuses on the prediction and management of complications associated with chronic liver disease, particularly esophageal varices in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease. Mashal has investigated various noninvasive scoring systems, including the Baveno VI Criteria, CHESS-ALARM score, FIB-4 score, and FIB-5 score, to identify patients at risk for varices that require treatment.

His work also includes studying rare medical conditions and complications. Recent publications address idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease in a liver transplant recipient and a late complication of COVID-19 involving subclavian artery thrombus. Mashal collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Ragesh B. Thandassery and Nimy John, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 2 and 8 total publications.

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h-index: 2
Publications: 8
Citations: 8

Positions

Assistant Professor publications 2021–2026

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences COM | Internal Med Hospital Medicine Institutional directory

Selected Publications

Comparative outcomes of advanced medical rescue therapies in steroid-refractory acute severe ulcerative colitis: a systematic review and network meta-analysis (2026)

Frontiers in Gastroenterology DOI OpenAlex
Porto Sinusoidal Vascular Disorder Manifesting as Diffuse Arterio-Portal Fistulae and Portal Hypertension After Donation-After-Circulatory-Death Liver Transplantation (2026)

ACG Case Reports Journal DOI OpenAlex
Predicting Esophageal Varices and Varices Needing Treatment in Compensated Advanced Chronic Liver Disease (2025)

Digestive Diseases and Sciences 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
S1169 Comparison of Baveno VI Criteria, Expanded Baveno VI Criteria, Chess Alarm Score and Other Noninvasive Scores for Predicting Esophageal Varices and Varices Needing Treatment (2022)

The American Journal of Gastroenterology DOI OpenAlex
SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY THROMBUS: A LATE COMPLICATION OF COVID 19 (2021)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex