A male patient with portal hypertension, portal vein thrombosis, spontaneous splenorenal shunt formation, and encephalopathy, thought to have post-hepatitis B cirrhosis, is described. His condition...
Membranous glomerulonephritis is known to be associated with malignancies. A 43-year-old man with a history of chronic renal insufficiency secondary to 20-year-old membranous glomerulonephritis was...
Malignant angiomyolipoma of the liver: a hitherto unreported variant (2000)
Dalle, I, Sciot, Raphael; U0010292, De Vos, Rita; U0012983, Aerts, R, Van Damme, B, Desmet, Valeer; U0011957, ...
AIMS: After their original recognition in the kidney, angiomyolipomas (AMLs) have been reported in the liver for more than 20 years. In the kidney, five cases of malignant AML have been reported. We...
Van Eyken, P, Myazaki, H, Van Damme, B
BACKGROUND/AIMS/METHODS: Since in rat experiments, activation of progenitor cells is seen in conditions associated with hepatocyte injury or inhibited replication, we compared the activation and fate...
Heparan sulphate proteoglycan expression in human primary liver tumours (1998)
Heparan sulphate proteoglycans (HSPGs) play important biological roles in cell-matrix adhesion processes and are essential regulators of growth factor actions (e.g., as co-receptor for hepatocyte...
Van Campenhout, H, Van Damme, B, Hildebrand, T, ...
As a part of the European Union BIOMED I study "Assessment of Bone Quality in Osteoporosis," the trabecular structure of transiliac bone biopsies was assessed by conventional histomorphometry and by...
Clinical aspects of incomplete septal cirrhosis in comparison with macronodular cirrhosis (1994)
Staessen, D, Van Damme, B, ...
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Incomplete septal cirrhosis (ISC) is a form of macronodular cirrhosis characterized by slender, incomplete septa that demarcate inconspicuous nodules. Its clinical features have not...
Partial prevention of active Heymann nephritis by 1 alpha, 25 dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1993)
The hormone 1 alpha, 25 dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3) has potent immunosuppressive effects in vitro. Recent publications also described a protective effect of the hormone in various animal models...
Van Damme, B, Michiels, J, ...
Both perfusion and diffusion contribute to NMR signal enhancement after intravenous injection of a nonspecific contrast agent. In the present study the roles of perfusion and diffusion in the...
Staessen, D, Sciot, R, Van Damme, B, Desmet, V, Fevery, J, ...
Association of bilateral renal dysplasia and congenital hepatic fibrosis (1986)
A young baby with jaundice and failure to thrive was found to have severe chronic renal failure and chronic cholestatic liver disease. She was the first child of healthy unrelated parents and died at...