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At the edge of the fibrotic zone cholestasis may be present.

Gradually it disappears, usually by the age of eight months, but the muscle is left fibrotic.

The blood vessel is destroyed, becomes fibrotic, and eventually disappears.

For delayed surgery, the most common reason was fibrotic adhesions.

It has gray or yellow fibrotic base and undermining skin margins.

Anti-inflammatory agents have only limited success in reducing the fibrotic progress.

The swelling can either be soft and fluid or hard and fibrotic.

Pulmonary fibrotic disease is seen as a late complication of radiation therapy.

Liver cells attempt to regenerate in an increasingly fibrotic setting.

This reflects the difficulty encountered in inflating the fibrotic lungs.

We had to scrape Joan's lungs off the cavity, because they were all scarred and fibrotic.

The bone marrow is usually fibrotic and is not easily aspirated.

The fibrotic stage is characterized by sclerosis and fibrosis.

The central veins are either not involved in the fibrotic process or become involved only late in the course of the disease.

The excessive transformation to fibrotic tissue negatively affects the function and structure of the heart.

Barrett was the first to suggest that these fibrotic conditions were inter-related and probably different manifestations of the same disorder.

The bone marrow in a typical case is hypercellular and diffusely fibrotic.

This suggests an inappropriate immune response in this type of fibrotic overlap syndrome.

No evidence for this could be found, however, with biopsy specimens showing a similar fibrotic inflammatory process affecting a number of different sites.

These disorders are still being revised according to more specific genetic mutations and how often patients end in a fibrotic marrow event.

In later stages, the liver becomes scarred (fibrotic).

Thus asbestos-related pleural diseases can result from much lower doses than the fibrotic changes in the lung.

There may be ground glass opacities of the lungs, but these changes are relatively minor in comparison with the fibrotic changes.

Fibrotic heart tissue is associated with an increase risk of ventricular dysfunction which can ultimately lead to heart failure.

These two proposed mechanisms illustrate therapeutic potential for the reduction of fibrotic remodelling in the hypertensive heart.