April 2025 in “Cermin Dunia Kedokteran” This review on Graves' disease explains its major role in causing hyperthyroidism, details genetic, environmental, and immunological risk factors, diagnoses, treatment options like anti-thyroid medications, and highlights potential complications such as ophthalmopathy and cardiovascular issues, noting prognosis varies by age.
February 2025 in “American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research” This case report highlights two cases of alopecia areata in patients with celiac disease, noting the rare occurrence of one patient also having acquired hypertrichosis lanuginosa, which may be the first documented instance of this combination in the literature.
This review highlights the increasing global incidence and broad socio-economic impact of celiac disease, emphasizing the need for improved recognition and management to address its multidimensional implications, including comorbidities and dietary challenges.
January 2025 in “International Journal of Homoeopathic Sciences” This article discusses individualized homeopathy for treating alopecia areata and reports promising results, suggesting potential effectiveness; however, it highlights the unpredictability of hair follicle remission with conventional treatments.
December 2024 in “International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health” In this study, researchers explored the dermatologic manifestations of celiac disease in children, highlighting dermatitis herpetiformis and other common skin conditions, and concluded that early recognition and management with a gluten-free diet and possible pharmacological interventions enhance outcomes.
In this study, a deep learning model using an optimized VGG19 architecture achieved a high classification accuracy of 98.64% for detecting ten hair disease classes from a balanced dataset, indicating its potential for reliable use in mobile diagnostics for clinical and remote applications.
December 2024 in “PubMed” This case study describes a 55-year-old Japanese male with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease who experienced no hair regrowth but did have hair repigmentation after localized steroid injections, highlighting an unusual late-onset poliosis and alopecia, which has not been previously reported.
November 2024 in “IP Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dermatology” In this study, researchers found that cutaneous hyperpigmentation is a primary dermatological manifestation in patients with Graves' disease, with certain treatments like carbimazole and propranolol being statistically associated with skin symptoms.
This study in Saudi Arabia found that nearly half of participants had low knowledge about thyroid disease risk factors and symptoms, suggesting a need for improved health education programs to enhance public awareness in the Al-Baha region.
October 2024 in “Journal of the Endocrine Society” This case report describes a rare conversion from Hashimoto's thyroiditis to Graves' disease in a 23-year-old male, requiring a shift from levothyroxine to methimazole and eventually radioactive iodine therapy.
This study introduced the C-CAT, a new assessment tool for central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, and found that established treatments improved symptoms in most patients over six months.
July 2024 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology” The new skin organoid system effectively mimics human skin for studying its functions, injuries, and diseases.
June 2024 in “British Journal of Dermatology” In this prospective observational study of 96 dermatomyositis patients, 47 showed scalp involvement, with significant symptoms like scalp inflammation, itching, and hair loss linked to myositis-specific antibodies. The study highlighted unique dermatopathological features in the scalp and emphasized the considerable morbidity caused by scalp dermatomyositis.
May 2024 in “Our Dermatology Online” In this case report, a mother and daughter with celiac disease experienced hair loss as their primary or initial extraintestinal symptom, highlighting the potential link between celiac disease and alopecia.
April 2024 in “African Journal of Biological Sciences” In this case report, a 38-year-old woman with Degos disease and non-scarring alopecia experienced significant hair regrowth with the current treatment protocol, highlighting its potential effectiveness in such complex conditions.
April 2024 in “African Journal of Biological Sciences” This case report describes a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus who developed Degos disease and non-scarring alopecia, highlighting dermoscopy's role in diagnosis and treatment prognosis.
In this study, a machine-learning model was evaluated for its ability to categorize various hair conditions, achieving high accuracy and balance between precision and recall, with an overall accuracy of 97% in detecting hair problems.
January 2024 in “International Journal of Medicine in Developing Countries” This study in Alahsa, Saudi Arabia, found that the majority of the general population has limited awareness of thyroid disease symptoms and risk factors, with only 21.8% demonstrating good knowledge about the disorders.
January 2024 in “Wiadomości Lekarskie” This study found that in prodromal Alzheimer's disease, pro-inflammatory gut bacteria were associated with reduced cerebral blood flow and reactivity, while beneficial gut bacteria correlated with better outcomes.
November 2023 in “The Bovine practitioner” In this study, a 5-year-old Angus bull experienced systemic granulomatous disease and vasculitis potentially associated with grazing on hairy vetch, but other bulls in the same pasture showed no symptoms, suggesting variability in disease manifestation from similar exposures.
October 2023 in “Sinkron” This study demonstrated that a CNN-based model using VGG-16 architecture achieved a 94.5% accuracy in classifying ten types of hair diseases, implying a promising tool for aiding health professionals in diagnosing hair conditions accurately.
October 2023 in “Journal of the Endocrine Society” In this case report, a shift from Hashimoto's thyroiditis to Graves' disease was observed in a 62-year-old woman, highlighting the rare transformation from hypothyroidism to hyperthyroidism over 20 years, possibly due to changes in antibody activity, according to the researchers.
July 2023 in “Nature Genetics” Researchers identified key cell types and genes involved in hair and skin diseases.
This research highlights the intricate relationship between the skin and gut microbiome, emphasizing the necessity for a deeper understanding of the "gut–skin" axis to develop new treatments for skin diseases. Results are not reported in the abstract.
This case study reports clinical improvement and complete ulcer resolution in a 29-year-old woman with ANA-negative SLE treated for segmental hyalinizing vasculitis and valvular heart disease.
June 2023 in “Acta Scientifci Nutritional Health” This study found that children with celiac disease who adhered to a gluten-free diet experienced significant improvements in height, weight, and symptoms like diarrhea and abdominal pain, although cases of abdominal distention increased.
April 2023 in “Research Square (Research Square)” This study found that lower GPX4 mRNA levels in polymorphonuclear neutrophils of systemic lupus erythematosus patients were negatively associated with disease activity and serological markers, suggesting a diagnostic value for GPX4 mRNA.
March 2023 in “Applied and Computational Engineering” This study proposes a deep learning model using CNN with VGG16, VGG19, and MobileNetV2 architectures, achieving high accuracy in classifying scalp diseases from images, potentially facilitating diagnosis and treatment via mobile devices.
January 2023 in “Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology” This letter discusses the emergence of the dermatology hospitalist model and reports no new clinical outcomes; single institution studies suggest these services may enhance diagnostic accuracy and decrease readmissions.
June 2022 in “Journal of pharmaceutical research international” This article discusses scalp dermatoscopy and home CI therapy as promising diagnostic and treatment options for alopecia areata but reports no new clinical results.