Medically reviewed by Susan Bard, MD Certain people are prone to keloids, a type of raised scar caused by dysfunctional wound healing, and want to know how to get rid of them. Surgery is an option, ...

[35] Figure 4 shows an earlobe keloid before and after successful treatment with intralesional steroids. Acute side effects include erythema, inflammation, edema, desquamation, and ulceration.

On the basis of the fortuitous observation of a beneficial effect of enalapril on recent and long-standing postsurgical keloid scars and confirmatory data from the literature, ACE inhibitors and ...