LAFAYETTE HILL, Pa. (WPVI) -- Pulmonary fibrosis turns the lungs to scar tissue, making it harder and harder to breathe. Help may be on the way, however. A drug being tested locally aims at giving ...
Scars on the lung tissue cause it to thicken and lose elasticity. Doctors refer to lung scarring as “pulmonary fibrosis”. It can occur due to certain health conditions and exposure to hazardous ...
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How to Keep Cells Out of Limbo and Prevent Lung Scarring
Scientists at UCSF identified a key cellular switch that plays a large role in pulmonary fibrosis, and found a way of blocking it to halt progression of the disease.
MILWAUKEE - Experts are studying the after-effects of COVID-19, including lung damage in some patients. Recovered patients still experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 have been dubbed "long-haulers." ...
Dr. Michael Baden, the renowned forensic pathologist and Fox News contributor, said Sunday it's still too early to know whether survivors of the COVID-19 virus will suffer lasting lung damage -- and ...
Two new papers examine the processes of lung scarring and chronic rejection of the organ after transplantation, and potential therapies to stop the graft, or transplanted organ and its tissue, from ...
A Texas trauma surgeon says it's rare that X-rays from any of her COVID-19 patients come back without dense scarring. Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall tweeted, "Post-COVID lungs look worse than any type ...
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