Definition of fibrosis
: a condition marked by increase of interstitial fibrous tissue
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The cause was pulmonary fibrosis, said his wife, Cynthia Benson.
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There was a more modest reduction in the most troublesome tissue-scarring process known as fibrosis.
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Her 24-year-old daughter, Dawn, died of cardiomyopathy with fibrosis, a heart problem, and was found dead in her apartment on April 12, 1990.
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The report cites myocardial fibrosis and inflammation of an unknown cause.
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Gorham was the head coach at Sacred Heart from 2004-11 season before idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a respiratory disease, forced him to step down, and ultimately required him to undergo a double lung transplant and double leg amputation. . .
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The American Lung Association brings a support group for individuals with COPD, pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer , and their caregivers.
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More than 2,000 cases of progressive massive fibrosis (PMF), the disease’s most lethal form, have been reported since 2000, according to new research by Kirsten Almberg of the University of Illinois at Chicago and seven co-authors.
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The experimental drug is designed to inhibit fibrosis, allowing the liver to regenerate.
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