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- Fibrosis, also known as fibrotic scarring, is the development of fibrous connective tissue in response to an injury. Fibrosis can be a normal connective...
- infections, and bacterial infections such as tuberculosis that may cause fibrotic changes in the lungs' upper or lower lobes and other microscopic lung injuries...
- acute inflammation (i.e., chronic cholecystitis), resulting in a shrunken, fibrotic (therefore hard), and calcified gallbladder ("porcelain gallbladder"),...
- Constrictive pericarditis is a condition characterized by a thickened, fibrotic pericardium, limiting the heart's ability to function normally. In many...
- connective tissues). As the disease progresses, the oral mucosa becomes fibrotic to the point that the person is unable to open the mouth. The condition...
- drugs like corticosteroids, nutritional support, and surgery to remove the fibrotic material. Patients usually present with abdominal symptoms such as altered...
- with or without fibrotic scars and volume loss. Bronchiectasis and pleural scarring may be present.[citation needed] Nodules and fibrotic scars may contain...
- heart valves due to inappropriate proliferation of cardiac fibroblasts. Fibrotic cardiac muscle is stiffer and less compliant and is seen in the progression...
- endometrosis co-occurs with endometritis which may activate the periglandular fibrotic stroma cells, but it hasn't been proven. Endometrial periglandular fibrosis...
- vera (PV) Primary myelofibrosis (PMF) PMF, prefibrotic stage PMF, overt fibrotic stage Essential thrombocythemia (ET) Chronic eosinophilic leukemia (not...