V
Valeer Desmet
Researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Publications - 212
Citations - 18376
Valeer Desmet is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Antigen & Hepatitis. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 211 publications receiving 17631 citations. Previous affiliations of Valeer Desmet include Catholic University of Leuven.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Histological grading and staging of chronic hepatitis.
Kamal G. Ishak,Amelia Baptista,Leonardo Bianchi,Francesco Callea,Jan De Groote,Fred Gudat,Helmut Denk,Valeer Desmet,Gerhard Korb,R. N. M. Macsween,M. James Phillips,Bernard G. Portmann,H. Poulsen,Peter J. Scheuer,Martin Schmid,Heribert Thaler +15 more
TL;DR: This research presents a meta-analysis of Anatomia e Istologia Patologica, a large quantity of which has never before been published in a peer-reviewed journal, which aims to provide real-time information about the immune system’s response to disease.
Journal ArticleDOI
Classification of chronic hepatitis: diagnosis, grading and staging.
TL;DR: Recombinant human alpha-interferon in patients with chronic nonA-nonB hepatitis and factors predictive of response to interferon alpha therapy in HCV infection are studied.
Journal ArticleDOI
Nomenclature of the finer branches of the biliary tree: canals, ductules, and ductular reactions in human livers.
Tania Roskams,Neil D. Theise,Charles Balabaud,Govind Bhagat,Prithi S. Bhathal,Paulette Bioulac-Sage,Elizabeth M. Brunt,James M. Crawford,Heather A. Crosby,Valeer Desmet,Milton J. Finegold,Stephen A. Geller,Annette S. H. Gouw,Prodromos Hytiroglou,A. S. Knisely,Masamichi Kojiro,Jay H. Lefkowitch,Yasuni Nakanuma,John K. Olynyk,Young Nyun Park,Bernard Portmann,Romil Saxena,Peter J. Scheuer,Alastair J. Strain,Swan N. Thung,Ian R. Wanless,A. Brian West +26 more
TL;DR: This international group of liver pathologists and hepatologists seeks to arrive at a consensus on nomenclature for normal human livers and human reactive lesions that can facilitate more rapid advancement of the field.
Journal ArticleDOI
Hepatic stellate cell/myofibroblast subpopulations in fibrotic human and rat livers.
TL;DR: In advanced fibrosis and in cirrhosis, regardless of cause or species, three distinct mesenchymal (myo)fibroblast-like liver cell subpopulations can be discerned: portal/septal MF, interface MF and perisinusoidally located HSC.
Journal ArticleDOI
The clinicopathological and prognostic relevance of cytokeratin 7 and 19 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma. A possible progenitor cell origin
Anne Durnez,Chris Verslype,Frederik Nevens,Johan Fevery,Raymond Aerts,Jacques Pirenne,Emmanuel Lesaffre,Louis Libbrecht,Valeer Desmet,Tania Roskams +9 more
TL;DR: Cytokeratin 7 and CK19 expression, present in hepatic progenitor cells and in cholangiocytes but not in normal hepatocytes, has been reported in some hepatocellular carcinomas, but the incidence and relevance of this expression in HCC in Caucasians is not known.