Since heart muscle cells don't regenerate, the repair consists of cobbling together a scar tissue patch. The problem is that the scar can invade healthy heart tissue in the days or weeks following ...

Emergency responders pronounced the woman dead at the scene ... myocardial fibrosis occurs when there is a buildup of scar tissue in the heart muscle. Scar tissue can come from damage to the ...

A new method here seems to be literally patching up a patient’s heart with healthy heart tissue, per the first human study results by [Ahmad-Fawad Jebran] et al. as published in Nature (as well ...

Jerusalem: Challenging conventional medical wisdom, Israeli scientists found that scar tissue formation in the heart occurs through two distinct mechanisms. This discovery could lead to new and ...