Therapeutic Options in Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia

Hair transplantation for Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia may work if done after the disease is inactive for 2 years and with ongoing treatment after surgery.

Finasteride helps hair regrowth in frontal fibrosing alopecia.

Finasteride helps treat frontal fibrosing alopecia, improving or stabilizing the condition in many patients.

Familial frontal fibrosing alopecia affects premenopausal women too, and early diagnosis is important, but no proven medication exists yet.

New alopecia treatments aim for better results and fewer side effects.

The treatment helped reduce symptoms and stabilize the hairline in most patients with Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia, but hair regrowth was limited.

Most patients with frontal fibrosing alopecia are postmenopausal women, and treatments like finasteride and dutasteride can improve or stabilize the condition.

Pioglitazone usually doesn't effectively treat or cure lichen planopilaris.

Hair transplantation might work for some people with frontal fibrosing alopecia, but more research is needed.

Dutasteride may help stabilize Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia, but more research is needed.

No effective treatment for frontal fibrosing alopecia was found, but oral 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors had the best response; for lichen planopilaris, topical corticosteroids were commonly used but had a high relapse rate.

Mostly postmenopausal Caucasian women get Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia, which often includes eyebrow loss and has limited treatment success.

Minoxidil treats hair loss, promotes growth, has side effects, and has recent patents.

Isolated long hairs at the original hairline can help diagnose Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia.

Finasteride improves hair density and thickness in women with hair loss.

Hydroxychloroquine effectively reduces symptoms of frontal fibrosing alopecia, especially in the first 6 months.

The document concludes that more research is needed to better understand and treat primary cicatricial alopecias, and suggests a possible reclassification based on molecular pathways.

Intralesional triamcinolone acetonide helps regrow eyebrows in patients with frontal fibrosing alopecia.

Hair transplantation may not work for Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia as transplanted hair was lost when the disease came back.

A specific drug can help treat Lichen Planopilaris, a condition causing permanent hair loss.

Oral dutasteride can potentially treat frontal fibrosing alopecia in postmenopausal women, with some patients showing disease arrest and hair regrowth.

Oral dutasteride and topical pimecrolimus can safely and effectively treat Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia, leading to significant hair regrowth.

FFA is more common in postmenopausal women, can affect younger women, and may stabilize over time.

The study found that Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia affects a broader age range of women and early treatment can help stop hair loss.

Hair transplant destroyed by lichen planopilaris.

Some postmenopausal women with frontal fibrosing alopecia stopped losing hair with finasteride treatment, hinting at a possible hormonal cause.

Postmenopausal frontal fibrosing alopecia is a type of hair loss in postmenopausal women that may stop on its own but has no effective treatment.

A premenopausal woman had hair loss and skin issues, treated with topical steroids.

Frontal fibrosing alopecia is a hair loss condition in postmenopausal women, similar to lichen planopilaris, with ineffective treatments.