Unattainable homeostasis in healing leads to interstitial and vascular intimal fibroses: a unified hypothesis of their pathogenesis.

Abstract:

:Homeostasis, or the maintenance of constant internal environment in the organism, is disrupted by injury. In this case, pathological defence reactions such as inflammation and healing take place in order to restore it. They succeed if etiological harmful factors are eliminated. In the opposite case, constant injury leads to continuous healing and fibrosis. Both interstitial and vascular intimal fibroses have similar pathogeneses and may be provoked by the same etiological factors. It may be concluded, therefore, that in spite of their apparent differences, both fibroses are only the different expressions of the same process by which injury should be healed and homeostasis restored. Fibrosis itself may become dangerous for the patient, depending on its extent and on the affected organ. In this case, the inhibition of healing reaction by antiangiogenesis may be envisaged as a life-saving measure.

journal_name

Med Hypotheses

journal_title

Medical hypotheses

authors

Beranek JT

doi

10.1016/0306-9877(91)90247-v

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-10-01 00:00:00

pages

103-5

issue

2

eissn

0306-9877

issn

1532-2777

pii

0306-9877(91)90247-V

journal_volume

36

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