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Dermatology

Alopecias

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  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this topic covers
    • Cicatricial vs non-cicatricial alopecia
    • Building a diagnosis
    • Clinical approach to scalp alopecia
    • Diagnostic tests used to assess alopecia
    • Clinical approach to the patient with alopecia
    • Clinical approach to the patient with alopecia (continued)

    7 slides

  2. 02

    Non-Cicatricial Alopecias

    Hair loss where the follicle survives and can regrow

    • Androgenetic alopecia: what it is
    • Genetic factors in androgenetic alopecia
    • Where 5α-reductase is active in the body
    • Androgen-handling enzymes in the hair follicle
    • Dihydrotestosterone drives follicle shrinkage
    • Mechanism of antiandrogens and 5α-reductase inhibitors
    • Female pattern hair loss, before and after treatment
    • Widening of the central part line
    • The Sinclair scale for female androgenetic alopecia
    • Grading systems for pattern hair loss
    • Alopecia scoring systems in common use
    • Alopecia scoring systems in common use (continued)
    • Alopecia scoring systems in common use (continued)
    • Trichoscopy shows uneven hair thickness
    • Common trichoscopy findings across the alopecias
    • Blood tests: when to order them
    • Layers of the hair follicle seen on biopsy
    • Histopathology of androgenetic alopecia, alopecia areata, and lichen planopilaris
    • Histopathology as a shared reference
    • Histopathologic features of the alopecias
    • Histopathologic features of the alopecias (continued)
    • Histopathologic features of the alopecias (continued)
    • Histopathologic features of the alopecias (continued)
    • Histopathologic features of the alopecias (continued)
    • Histopathologic features of the alopecias (continued)
    • Histopathologic features of the alopecias (continued)
    • Histopathologic features of the alopecias (continued)
    • Histopathologic features of the alopecias (continued)
    • Diagnosis and look-alikes of androgenetic alopecia
    • Treating androgenetic alopecia: minoxidil
    • Treating androgenetic alopecia: oral 5α-reductase inhibitors
    • Treating androgenetic alopecia: dutasteride and other options
    • The normal hair growth cycle
    • Anagen, catagen, telogen, exogen
    • What triggers telogen effluvium
    • Triggers of telogen effluvium
    • Telogen vs anagen hair under the microscope
    • A visual scale for grading hair shedding
    • Work-up and treatment of telogen effluvium
    • Anagen effluvium
    • Alopecia areata: an autoimmune hair disease
    • How the immune attack unfolds
    • Genetic risk in alopecia areata
    • Clinical patterns of alopecia areata
    • Diffuse alopecia areata
    • Alopecia areata variants: circular and ophiasis
    • Confluent alopecia areata patches
    • Nail changes in alopecia areata
    • Trichoscopy of alopecia areata through its course
    • What trichoscopy shows in alopecia areata
    • Diseases that travel with alopecia areata
    • Conditions associated with alopecia areata
    • Telling alopecia areata apart from look-alikes
    • Deciding on alopecia areata treatment
    • Topical and injected treatment for alopecia areata
    • Topical immunotherapy protocol for alopecia areata
    • Topical immunotherapy protocol for alopecia areata (continued)
    • Systemic treatment for severe alopecia areata
    • Trichotillomania: hair pulling disorder
    • DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for trichotillomania
    • Trichotillomania: patchy hair loss and broken hairs
    • Treating trichotillomania
    • Pressure-induced alopecia
    • Temporal triangular alopecia
    • Temporal triangular alopecia in an unusual site
    • Traction alopecia from tight hairstyles
    • Traction alopecia: trichoscopy and treatment
    • Lipedematous scalp and lipedematous alopecia
    • Psoriatic and syphilitic alopecia
    • Hair loss in systemic lupus erythematosus
    • Congenital atrichia with papular lesions

    71 slides

  3. 03

    Cicatricial (Scarring) Alopecias

    The follicle is destroyed and replaced by scar tissue

    • What makes an alopecia scarring
    • Causes of secondary cicatricial alopecia
    • Scalp biopsy technique for scarring alopecia
    • Classifying primary cicatricial alopecia
    • NAHRS classification of primary cicatricial alopecia
    • NAHRS classification of primary cicatricial alopecia (continued)
    • The lichen planopilaris spectrum
    • Lichen planopilaris: what drives it
    • Lichen planopilaris: who gets it, how it starts
    • Lichen planopilaris: active margin with scaling
    • Late-stage lichen planopilaris
    • Treating lichen planopilaris
    • Frontal fibrosing alopecia: pathogenesis
    • Three patterns of hairline recession
    • Frontal fibrosing alopecia: patterns and facial findings
    • Loss of eyebrow hair and “lonely hairs” in frontal fibrosing alopecia
    • Frontotemporal recession in frontal fibrosing alopecia
    • Treating frontal fibrosing alopecia
    • Graham Little–Piccardi–Lasseur syndrome
    • Fibrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution
    • Classic pseudopelade: “footprints in the snow”
    • Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia: mechanism
    • CCCA: clinical distribution and histopathology
    • CCCA is most common in Black women
    • Polytrichia: “baby doll hair” tufting
    • CCCA on trichoscopy
    • CCCA: ruling out look-alikes
    • Treating CCCA
    • Healthy hair practices for Afro-textured hair
    • CCCA under the microscope
    • Discoid lupus erythematosus: introduction
    • How discoid lupus lesions evolve
    • Discoid lupus erythematosus of the scalp
    • Active discoid lupus lesion
    • Late-stage, “burnt-out” discoid lupus
    • Diagnosing and treating discoid lupus
    • Follicular mucinosis (alopecia mucinosa)
    • Keratosis follicularis spinulosa decalvans
    • Folliculitis decalvans: pathophysiology
    • Folliculitis decalvans: who it affects, how it looks
    • Hair tufts in folliculitis decalvans
    • Tufted folliculitis: “doll's hair” appearance
    • Folliculitis decalvans under the microscope
    • Folliculitis decalvans: further histopathology
    • Treating folliculitis decalvans
    • EGFR inhibitor-induced scarring alopecia
    • Acne keloidalis
    • Dissecting cellulitis of the scalp
    • Dissecting cellulitis: nodules to draining ridges
    • Dissecting cellulitis with acne keloidalis
    • Dissecting cellulitis: shape and drainage
    • Dissecting cellulitis: response to isotretinoin
    • Treating dissecting cellulitis
    • Acne necrotica and erosive pustular dermatosis
    • Nonspecific “end-stage” cicatricial alopecia

    55 slides

  4. 04

    Hair Shaft Abnormalities

    When the hair shaft itself is fragile or an unusual shape

    • Two broad groups of hair shaft abnormalities
    • Hair shaft abnormalities under the microscope
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities (continued)
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities (continued)
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities (continued)
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities (continued)
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities (continued)
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities (continued)
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities (continued)
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities (continued)
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities (continued)
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities (continued)
    • Inherited disorders with hypotrichosis or hair shaft abnormalities (continued)
    • Bubble hair
    • Monilethrix: beaded hair
    • Monilethrix: clinical appearance
    • Pili torti: twisted hair shaft
    • Trichorrhexis invaginata: “bamboo hair”
    • Trichorrhexis nodosa: the most common shaft defect
    • Trichothiodystrophy: sulfur-deficient hair
    • Loose anagen hair syndrome
    • Pili annulati: ringed hair
    • Pili bifurcati and pili multigemini
    • Uncombable hair syndrome
    • Woolly hair nevus
    • Woolly hair

    27 slides

  5. 05

    Alopecia Beyond the Scalp

    The same diseases can affect eyebrows, lashes, beard, and body hair

    • Hair loss outside the scalp
    • Key takeaways
    • References
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    • Dermatology, 5th Edition (2-Volume Set)

    14 slides