It’s usually thicker than normal skin and can be discolored or shiny. Scar tissue is the thickened, fibrous connective tissue that develops after healthy skin cells have been destroyed.

There are scar treatment methods to prevent or improve scarring if it's itchy, painful or make you uncomfortable about your ...

Over time, scar tissue slows or stops implanted bioelectronics. But new interdisciplinary research could help pacemakers, ...

Women with cirrhosis might notice their belly becoming swollen or bloated. This swelling is called ascites and happens ...

When a scar develops from surgery, injury, or infection, the surrounding tissue transforms. While scar formation has been extensively studied, less is understood about the impact of a new scar in the ...

Your risk for incisional hernias increases if you: Are very overweight, as there’s greater pressure on the scar tissue Have other illnesses and wound healing problems Have a larger incision When ...

To map out the cellular and molecular terrain of the scar tissue, Joyce and her team applied an integrated multiomics approach to the scar tissue: mass spectrometry-based proteomics, single-cell RNA ...