Jerry Shapiro, MD, discusses strategies for treating patients with scarring and nonscarring alopecia.

CCCA patients experience longer diagnostic delays, with a mean TTD of 5.67 years, compared to other scarring alopecias. Black patients face longer diagnostic delays, but alopecia subtype is the only ...

Optimized treatment of lichen planopilaris should be individualized in the context of presenting symptoms and features, according to a newly tweaked algorithm.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Brepocitinib downregulated key inflammatory biomarkers in cicatricial alopecias. Brepocitinib also improved ...

Scarring alopecia, or cicatricial alopecia, encompasses a group of disorders characterised by permanent hair loss due to the destruction of hair follicles and their replacement with scar tissue. This ...

Medically reviewed by Katlein Franca, MD Key Takeaways CCCA is a type of hair loss that mainly affects Black women and begins with hair loss at the top of the head.Early treatment for CCCA can stop ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most patients experienced improvement in CCCA symptoms, and six had hair regrowth. Gene pathways identified in ...

Cicatricial alopecia encompasses a diverse group of inflammatory conditions that result in irreversible hair loss due to the permanent destruction of hair follicles and their replacement with fibrous ...

Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM: Welcome to the WebMD Health Discovered Podcast. I'm Dr Neha Pathak, WebMD’s Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine. Today we're talking about alopecia ...

Folliculitis decalvans is a scarring folliculitis of the scalp in which Staphylococcus aureus is commonly cultured. The onset is typically in young and middle-aged adults who are otherwise healthy and ...

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