Without a graft, the healing usually takes a lot longer and scar tissue is more noticeable.
In Peyronie's disease, problems in the normal wound-healing process result in permanent scar tissue.
Fortunately, I survived with no significant scar tissue and everything still in good working order.
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She says surgery for vocal-cord nodules left scar tissue that prevents her from singing.
To remove them, doctors slide sheaths over the wires and scrape the scar tissue away, freeing the lead.
Some people have had to remove the bands because they caused painful irritation and scar tissue in their stomachs.
No eyebrows, only a goatee and glasses to reveal an individual under so much scar tissue from third-degree burns.
They also may do more harm than good, causing formation of scar tissue that makes eventual repair more difficult.
They are waiting for the scar tissue and inflammation to go down to see what else needs to be done.
Some people have small sensory nerves that get trapped in scar tissue, and may experience prolonged periods of pain, he said.
Doctors in 2005 operated again on Clinton to remove scar tissue and fluid that had built up after his bypass surgery.
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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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Defibrillator leads are often bound to the walls of veins and the heart by scar tissue, an obstacle that worsens with time.
Today, Christine is scheduled to have a fifth procedure to fix her ureter, which has become almost completely blocked by scar tissue.
The section of the sheath with scar tissue is no longer flexible.
When people are afflicted, their marrow is slowly replaced with 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.
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.
The body tries to wall off the fatty plaques with fibrous scar tissue, but inflamed plaques can produce enzymes that weaken the scar tissue.
The reclogging occurs because the body, viewing the stent as an invader or an injury, forms scar tissue around the device, clumping things up again.
"During the surgery, we go to the area that has been damaged, clean out scar tissue and plug in a new, engineered urethra, " said Atala.
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.
But over time it produces chronic inflammation and scar tissue.
His scar tissue came from battles both actual and political.
And Pegasys is the only product in its class approved for use in patients who already have cirrhosis of the liver, meaning that nonfunctioning scar tissue has replaced normal liver tissue.
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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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.
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.
Obesity, excessive scar tissue from a previous surgery in the same area, disease that is more advanced than anticipated any one of these physiological conditions creates more work and a more difficult environment for the surgeon.
"With an MCL tear, you let it heal for two to four weeks and let the scar tissue build up, and only then do you want to go in and do the ACL reconstruction, " Webb said.
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