POF manifests as inappropriate growths of fibrous tissue that form after insults such as surgery, ischemia, infection or trauma. Such injury often leads to hypoxia, which robs tissues of oxygen ...
Matilda Pritchard, 11, had a rare, undiagnosed heart condition, which caused her to die in her sleep. The first sign of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVD) can be sudden death.
Breasts have three types of tissue: fibrous, glandular and fatty. Fibrous tissue holds your breast together, while glandular tissue contains the lobes or parts of the breast necessary for ...
A MAN whose eyeball was invaded by a parasite was left unable to see as he developed a tumour so large it hung down to his chest. What started as swelling in his left eyelid slowly progressed to ...
Porcine collagen is a commercially available graft, which has been previously used as a tissue-engineering scaffold. It has also been applied in a pediatric patient to close the anterior abdominal ...