In addition, women carrying the genes, it was feared, might be more prone to side-effects such as pain, shortness of breath and fibrosis - the formation of scar-like tissue.
No eyebrows, only a goatee and glasses to reveal an individual under so much scar tissue from third-degree burns.
She says surgery for vocal-cord nodules left scar tissue that prevents her from singing.
The stent, a metal-mesh tube, keeps the artery from closing up again after the balloon is removed, but scar tissue can form over the metal, re-blocking the artery.
In Peyronie's disease, problems in the normal wound-healing process result in permanent scar tissue.
However, there is a world of difference between a drug tackling tumour cells in the laboratory, and getting the same drug throughout a real tumour - a mass of tissue and scar tissue.
It's close to the area where he had season-ending surgery last June to remove scar tissue but is unrelated to that injury, Dugger said.
Finally, because the magnetic fields are transparent to tissue and bone, tumor location is not affected by the presence of scar tissue from surgeries and implants or by radio-opaque breasts another failure of mammograms.
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Those who are most susceptible to the disease have over-zealous repair mechanisms that replace too much liver with useless scar tissue.
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But sometimes scar tissue formed inside the stent, causing artery to close up again-leading to a repeat procedure or to heart bypass surgery.
Tissue cells, instead of performing the normal self-repair of damaged tissue, begin laying down excessive layers of collagen to help build a scar.
New catheter-based imagers aim to improve IVUS by letting doctors distinguish stable plaque, safely ensconced in scar tissue, from the inflamed plaque that is more likely to rupture and trigger a heart attack.
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