TABLE 1.

Main types of fibrosis.

Organ/tissue	Type of fibrosis	References
Skin	Hypertrophic scar Systemic sclerosis	Rabello et al. (2014) Allanore et al. (2015)
Heart	Cardiac fibrosis Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Cardiac dysfunction Valvular disease Arrhythmia	Hinderer and Schenke-Layland (2019) Ho et al. (2010) Khan and Sheppard (2006)
Bone marrow	Myelofibrosis Myelodysplastic syndrome Chronic myelogenous leukemia	Zahr et al. (2016) Hinderer and Schenke-Layland (2019)
Liver	Cirrhosis Portal hypertension Hepatocellular carcinoma	Šmíd (2020)
Retroperitoneum	Retroperitoneal fibrosis	Vaglio and Maritati (2016)
Gut	Intestinal fibrosis Enteropathies Inflammatory bowel disease	Hinderer and Schenke-Layland (2019)
Joint	Arthrofibrosis	Usher et al. (2019)
Brain and nervous system	Glial scar Alzheimer	Hinderer and Schenke-Layland (2019)
Eye	Subretinal fibrosis Epiretinal fibrosis Vision loss	Friedlander (2007) Khaw et al. (2020)
Lung	Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Cystic fibrosis Pulmonary hypertension Thromboembolic disease	Barratt et al. (2018) Friedlander (2007) Smith et al. (2013) Farghaly and El-Abdin (2015)
Mediastinum	Mediastinal fibrosis	Rajput et al. (2000)
Pancreas	Pancreatic fibrosis Cystic fibrosis Chronic pancreatitis Duct obstruction	Klöppel et al. (2004) Madácsy et al. (2018) Klöppel (2007) Apte et al. (2011)
Kidney	Renal fibrosis Cystic fibrosis Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis Chronic kidney disease Renal anemia	Liu (2011) Yahiaoui et al. (2009) Waikhom and Taraphder (2011) Panizo et al. (2021) Xiao and Liu (2013)