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This case report describes a patient with corticosteroid-resistant ophiasis alopecia areata who experienced prompt hair regrowth after receiving platelet-rich plasma injections.

Topical corticosteroids can help treat severe alopecia areata when other treatments fail.

In this retrospective study, researchers observed that additional rounds of intravenous corticosteroid pulse therapy led to only partial hair regrowth in some rapidly progressive alopecia areata cases, with all participants experiencing relapse, indicating limited efficacy for severe cases resistant to initial treatment.

In this study, methotrexate effectively treated juvenile localized scleroderma in most cases, with few patients showing resistance and no identifiable profile for these resistant individuals.

This case report described a patient with erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp who was resistant to multiple treatments, suggesting that combination therapy may be more effective than monotherapy for managing refractory cases of this condition.

Scalp Roller therapy helped improve hair growth in patients with hard-to-treat alopecia areata.

This review discusses treatment strategies for scalp psoriasis, highlighting the use of topical agents and challenges in managing this difficult form of psoriasis, but provides no new clinical results.

CD8+ T cells re-expressing CD45RA may predict treatment resistance in severe alopecia areata.

This study describes a case of erlotinib-induced alopecia, unresponsive to traditional corticosteroid treatments, that was successfully managed with doxycycline, suggesting a novel approach for EGFR inhibitor-associated alopecia.

Mitoxantrone with a corticosteroid helps manage symptoms for some advanced prostate cancer patients but doesn't extend life.

Acne is linked to inflammation and insulin resistance, and is associated with various syndromes that require different treatments.

This study observed that female mice with disrupted 5α-reductase 1 showed increased insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis, suggesting altered glucocorticoid metabolism contributes to metabolic disorders.

This review discusses polycystic ovarian syndrome, highlighting its symptoms, potential causes, and treatment options, but reports no new clinical results.

In this study, bimatoprost solution showed better results than corticosteroid in terms of rapidity, percentage of hair regrowth, and side effects for treating scalp alopecia areata.

This case report from the study described a 62-year-old woman with pityriasis rubra pilaris and Kaposi's varicelliform eruption, whose skin condition improved significantly with isotretinoin treatment over 43 weeks.

This single-patient case study reported promising results for severe, corticosteroid-resistant alopecia areata, with treatment using exosomes derived from mesenchymal stromal cells leading to almost complete hair regrowth in 12 weeks and favorable changes in inflammatory markers, suggesting potential for further investigation.

This study reports three cases of alopecia areata resistant to corticosteroids that improved after 16 weeks of treatment with a combination of fractional carbon dioxide laser and topical tacrolimus, suggesting a potential new therapeutic option that requires further confirmation.

In this report, a case of steroid-resistant multifocal alopecia areata was successfully treated with topical bimatoprost, suggesting it may be a promising alternative therapy.

This study reports significant hair regrowth in two alopecia areata patients resistant to intralesional corticosteroids after treatment with intralesional polydeoxyribonucleotide.

This report presents a case of refractory thyrotoxicosis where the patient required a total thyroidectomy after resistance to conventional treatments including antithyroid drugs and radioactive iodine.

This review discusses lichen planopilaris in children and highlights its rarity, potential for misdiagnosis, and need for suspicion in atypical or treatment-resistant alopecia cases, but reports no new results.

This retrospective study found that intralesional betamethasone injections led to significant repigmentation in scalp vitiligo patients without leukotrichia, suggesting it as an effective treatment option.

In this case series, the authors reported effective hair regrowth and resolution of symptoms in three pediatric patients with folliculitis decalvans following treatment with a combination of antibiotics, retinoids, dapsone, and corticosteroids.

This study reviewed existing literature on Tinea Capitis, highlighting its frequent occurrence in children, the ease of fungal spread from humans or animals, and the necessity for prompt and proper antifungal treatment due to potential drug resistance and complications like alopecia.

This article reviews the hormonal pathogenesis and treatment strategies for acne vulgaris, particularly in women with severe or treatment-resistant cases, associating it with hormonal imbalances and hyperandrogenism.

This study found that combined topical, intralesional, and oral corticosteroids led to significant hair regrowth in some patients with alopecia totalis or universalis, allowing eventual cessation of oral corticosteroids in several cases.

This review of seborrheic dermatitis highlights the role of complex immunoinflammatory processes in its pathogenesis and discusses emerging treatments, such as PDE4 inhibitors, JAK inhibitors, and microbiome-targeted therapies, which may benefit patients with severe or treatment-resistant forms, according to the authors.

This review reports that psoriatic alopecia, a type of hair loss linked to psoriasis, is difficult to diagnose and often resistant to conventional treatments, highlighting the need for further research into its immune-related mechanisms and personalized treatment approaches for better management.

In this study, researchers evaluated hair follicle transplantation techniques and reported that challenges such as limited follicle supply and low follicle survival rates often limit patient satisfaction, but advances in regenerative medicine may offer promising new solutions.

This systematic review suggests that platelet-rich plasma may significantly improve symptoms in oral lichen planus with effects comparable to corticosteroids, although more research is needed to confirm these findings.