Acute Post-Operative Edema: A Major Morbidity After Hair Transplant

    June 2019 in “ The Professional Medical Journal ”
    Mufassar Nishat, Ansar Latif, Leena Chaudhary
    Studysummary In this prospective study, the addition of the steroid triamcinolone to the tumescent solution was significantly more effective in preventing post-operative edema in hair transplant patients than a postoperative oral steroid course, showing a 93.3% success rate compared to 57.8% in the oral steroid group.
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