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Some treatments work for common baldness, but there's less evidence for other hair loss types, and more research is needed.

Alopecia affects patients' quality of life, with younger patients and longer-lasting hair loss experiencing greater impact.

Diagnose and manage CCCA with thorough history, exams, and labs; treat with anti-inflammatory agents, stress reduction, and stopping harmful hair practices.

New treatments targeting immune pathways show promise for severe hair loss but need more research for safety and effectiveness.

A woman's hair loss was initially mistaken for a common hair loss condition but was later found to be caused by breast cancer cells in her scalp.

Diagnosing hair loss disorders needs clinical, dermoscopic, and histological differences, and checking menstrual cycle, weight changes, drug therapy, and nail changes.

Monochromatic light devices, especially the 308-nm excimer laser, are promising for treating alopecia areata but more research is needed.

Female donor to male recipient sex mismatch and positive ACA-IgG are key risk factors for vitiligo and alopecia areata in chronic GvHD patients.

Oral tofacitinib may effectively treat hair loss in children with alopecia areata.

A man with severe hair loss saw hair and nail improvement after 10 months on tofacitinib without side effects.

Hair loss in cancer patients can be related to the cancer itself, treatment, or other conditions, and understanding it is important for diagnosis and patient care.

Woman has discoid lupus, frontal fibrosing, and androgenetic alopecia.

Fractional lasers seem effective and safe for treating hair loss, but more research is needed to find the best treatment methods.

Alopecia areata, a type of hair loss, is likely an autoimmune disease with a genetic link, but its exact cause is still unknown.

Hair and serum levels of zinc, copper, and iron are similar in people with alopecia areata and healthy individuals.

Some cases of tinea capitis, a fungal scalp infection, can look like scarring hair loss due to the body's immune response and the fungus itself.

Most hair loss disorders can be accurately diagnosed and treated in an outpatient setting.

TGPC plus CGT is effective and safe for treating severe alopecia areata in children.

The four main causes of hair loss in children are fungal infections, pulling out hair, autoimmune hair loss, and stress-related hair shedding.

Minoxidil and finasteride can help with hair loss, but more research is needed to improve treatments for certain types of hair loss.

Captopril may cause hair loss, as shown by a woman's hair regrowing after stopping the medication.

Alopecia areata involves specific T-cells, unlike androgenetic alopecia.

A rare ITGB6 gene variant causes intellectual disability, hair loss, and dental issues.

Propionibacterium acnes might be linked to hair casts and possibly alopecia.

Transverse scalp sections are better for diagnosing non-scarring hair loss, while vertical sections are better for a specific scarring hair loss called lichen planopilaris.

Mesotherapy for hair loss can sometimes cause more hair loss and scarring.

High and low doses of prednisolone helped 62% of children with severe alopecia regrow hair with some weight gain and mild acne as side effects.

Reflectance confocal microscopy can help tell apart scarring from non-scarring hair loss.

The article concludes that hair loss is a common side effect of drugs treating skin cancer by blocking the hedgehog pathway, but treatment should continue, and more selective drugs might prevent this side effect.

Patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease often have skin problems like vitiligo and alopecia areata.