Vitamin D and keloid scars: Researchers find inhibiting enzyme could lead to treatment
Keloids are fibrotic scars that extend beyond the boundaries of the original wound, often causing physical disfigurement and ...
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Vitamin D and keloid scars: A new path to treatment
In an exciting advancement for dermatological science, researchers have uncovered the pivotal role of vitamin D and the enzyme CYP24A1 in the development of keloid scars—an elusive and challenging ...
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Can Silicone Scar Sheets Help Prevent Scarring?
There are several types of scars, including hypertrophic scars, which are raised and may fade over time; keloid ... surgery. You have to be sure your cut has healed, and you no longer have any ...
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Robotic Heart Surgery
Patients who undergo robotic heart surgery also tend to experience less pain and scarring than those who have open surgery. Robotic heart valve surgery in particular, offers a number of benefits over ...
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Low-Dose Enalapril in the Treatment of Surgical Cutaneous Hypertrophic Scar and Keloid - Two Case Reports and Literature Review
it is useful to achieve the best possible aesthetic results and to decrease the risk of a disfiguring keloid scar, thereby avoiding revision surgery; to this purpose, an early treatment with a low ...
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Postsurgical use of imiquimod 5% cream in the prevention of earlobe keloid recurrences: results of an open-label, pilot study.
OBJECTIVES: To establish the safety and efficacy of imiquimod 5% cream in the prevention of recurrences of excised earlobe keloids. METHODS: Patients who attended a dermatologic surgery clinic for ...