Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection Is Effective and Safe for the Treatment of Alopecia

This review discusses cases and research on paradoxical hair growth after laser hair removal and explores laser and light therapies for treating alopecia, but reports no new results.

This study concluded that patients with metabolic syndrome, regardless of androgenetic alopecia presence, were more insulin resistant than those with only androgenetic alopecia or healthy controls, indicating no true association between alopecia and insulin resistance.

This article reviews recent advancements in understanding hair follicle biology, with a focus on the potential for gene therapy in treating alopecia, but it reports no new research findings.

In this study, platelet plasma growth factors from patients' autologous plasma improved follicular unit yield in baldness surgery by 15.1% compared to control areas.

This study found that oral finasteride was more effective than 5% topical minoxidil in treating mild to severe androgenetic alopecia in males, with both treatments deemed effective and safe over 12 months.

This article discusses the medical management of male pattern hair loss and reports no new clinical findings.

This article integrates existing literature on hair follicle structure and formation at the cellular and molecular level, reporting no new findings.

This study found that using a multibladed knife during hair transplantation surgery enhanced the rate of minigraft preparation and produced more uniformly sized grafts compared to traditional techniques.

This study found that epidermal and fibroblast growth factors increased proliferation of human hair bulb papilla cells and root sheath fibroblasts in vitro, while hydrocortisone decreased it and minoxidil had no effect.