What Are the Common Causes of Fibrosis?
Fibrosis is a medical concept. Fibrosis can occur in a variety of organs. The main pathological changes are increased fibrous connective tissue in organ tissues and reduced parenchymal cells. Continuous progress can cause organ structure destruction and functional decline, and even failure. Threatening human health and life.
Fibrosis
(Medical concept)
- Chinese name
- Fibrosis
- Foreign name
- fibrosis
- Lesion characteristics
- Increased fibrous connective tissue in organ tissues
- Category
- A medical concept
- Fibrosis is a medical concept. Fibrosis can occur in a variety of organs. The main pathological changes are increased fibrous connective tissue in organ tissues and reduced parenchymal cells. Continuous progress can cause organ structure destruction and functional decline, and even failure. Threatening human health and life.
- Organs are composed of two parts: parenchyma and interstitial. Essentially refers to the main structural and functional cells of the organ (such as the liver
- 1 Overview: Fibrosis can occur in a variety of organs. The main pathological changes are an increase in fibrous connective tissue in organ tissues and a decrease in parenchymal cells. Continuous progress can cause organ structure destruction and functional decline, and even failure, which seriously threatens human health and life.
- Organs are composed of two parts: parenchyma and interstitial. The parenchyma refers to the main structural and functional cells of the organ (such as the parenchymal cells of the liver are hepatocytes). The stroma consists of stromal cells and extracellular matrix (mainly collagen, proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans, glycoproteins, and elasticity). Protein), distributed between parenchymal cells, and mainly plays the role of mechanical support and connection. In addition, the extracellular matrix constitutes a microenvironment that maintains the physiological activities of cells, is a bridge for signal transmission between cells, participates in a variety of physiological and pathological processes, and plays an important role in tissue wound repair and fibrosis.
- Tissue fibrosis is the main cause of disability and death of many diseases worldwide. According to relevant statistics from the United States, nearly 45% of patients who die from various diseases in this country can be attributed to tissue fibroproliferative diseases. We can see in Table 1 that tissue fibrosis plays an important role in the occurrence and development of diseases in the main organs of the human body.
- Table 1 Common organ fibroproliferative diseases and syndromes
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