Alopecia and Drugs

    January 2010
    Juan Ferrando, Adrià Font Gual, Laura Lacueva
    TLDR Many drugs can cause hair loss.
    The document reviewed the various causes and pharmacological agents involved in diffuse alopecia, focusing on anagen effluvium as the most representative form of sudden hair loss and telogen effluvium as the most common form of diffuse alopecia after androgenetic alopecia. It highlighted the difficulty in determining the etiopathogenic mechanisms and emphasized the significant role of several drugs in the occurrence of alopecia. The study also described the most widely known etiopathogenic mechanisms according to Headington and examined the extensive range of drugs that could cause these conditions.
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