Examples of Fibrosis
- Pulmonary fibrosis (lungs)
- Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (where the cause is unknown)
- Cystic fibrosis
- Cirrhosis (liver)
- Endomyocardial fibrosis (heart)
- Mediastinal fibrosis (soft tissue of the mediastinum)
- Myelofibrosis (bone marrow)
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis (soft tissue of the retroperitoneum)
- Progressive massive fibrosis (lungs); a complication of coal workers' pneumoconiosis
- Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (skin)
- Crohn's Disease (intestine)
- Keloid (skin)
- Old myocardial infarction (heart)
- Scleroderma/systemic sclerosis (skin, lungs)
- Arthrofibrosis (knee, shoulder, other joints)
- Some forms of adhesive capsulitis (shoulder)
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