tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84533059350035840032024-03-08T09:22:30.433-08:00Alopecia NYCWelcome to Alopecia NYC at Alopecia NYC at Alopecia NYC Treatment Center in New York, NY headed by a world class Manhattan Board Certified Dermatologist. We see patients with non-scarring alopecia including telogen effluvium, androgenetic alopecia, and alopecia areata, as well as those with scarring alopecia including central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, lichen planopilaris, frontal fibrosing alopecia, discoid lupus erythematosus, folliculitis decalvans, and acne keloidalis nuchae.New York Dermatologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04651043981281455909noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453305935003584003.post-7028753930715512872016-02-06T07:14:00.004-08:002016-02-06T07:14:38.162-08:00What is Alopecia Areata? NYC New York NY<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">What is Alopecia Areata?</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Alopecia Areata is thought to be an autoimmune condition in which the skin’s own immune system cells attack hairs at the roots, causing the hairs to fall out intact, leaving smooth, bare patches on the scalp or face.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">In some patients a pregnancy, major trauma or illness precedes hair loss. One fifth of patients have a family history of Alopecia Areata.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">The National Alopecia Areata Foundation reports this condition develops in 2% of the population or five million people in the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">The condition affects each person differently. Some hair follicles remain alive and able to resume normal hair production with the appropriate stimulation. The condition is cyclical and unpredictable, and the hair can grow back or fall out again at any time. With limited hair loss of less than 40%, hair will usually regrow in a few months.</span>New York Dermatologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04651043981281455909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453305935003584003.post-77253814961786244782015-09-22T17:58:00.006-07:002015-09-22T17:58:59.334-07:00What Is Hair Loss? NYC New York NY<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Hair grows everywhere on the human skin except on the palms of our hands and the soles of our feet, but many hairs are so fine they're virtually invisible. Hair is made up of a protein called keratin that is produced in hair follicles in the outer layer of skin. As follicles produce new hair cells, old cells are being pushed out through the surface of the skin at the rate of about six inches a year. The hair you can see is actually a string of dead keratin cells. The average adult head has about 100,000 to 150,000 hairs and loses up to 100 of them a day; finding a few stray hairs on your hairbrush is not necessarily cause for alarm.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">At any one time, about 90% of the hair on a person's scalp is growing. Each follicle has its own life cycle that can be influenced by age, disease, and a wide variety of other factors. This life cycle is divided into three phases:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Anagen -- active hair growth that lasts between two to six years</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Catagen -- transitional hair growth that lasts two to three weeks</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Telogen -- resting phase that lasts about two to three months; at the end of the resting phase the hair is shed and a new hair replaces it and the growing cycle starts again.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">As people age, their rate of hair growth slows.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">There are many types of hair loss, also called alopecia:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Involutional alopecia is a natural condition in which the hair gradually thins with age. More hair follicles go into the resting phase, and the remaining hairs become shorter and fewer in number.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Androgenic alopecia is a genetic condition that can affect both men and women. Men with this condition, called male pattern baldness, can begin suffering hair loss as early as their teens or early 20s. It's characterized by a receding hairline and gradual disappearance of hair from the crown and frontal scalp. Women with this condition, called female pattern baldness, don't experience noticeable thinning until their 40s or later. Women experience a general thinning over the entire scalp, with the most extensive hair loss at the crown.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Alopecia areata often starts suddenly and causes patchy hair loss in children and young adults. This condition may result in complete baldness (alopecia totalis). But in about 90% of people with the condition, the hair returns within a few years.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Alopecia universalis causes all body hair to fall out, including the eyebrows, eyelashes, and pubic hair.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Trichotillomania, seen most frequently in children, is a psychological disorder in which a person pulls out one's own hair.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Telogen effluvium is temporary hair thinning over the scalp that occurs because of changes in the growth cycle of hair. A large number of hairs enter the resting phase at the same time, causing hair shedding and subsequent thinning.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Scarring alopecias result in permanent loss of hair. Inflammatory skin conditions (cellulitis, folliculitis, acne), and other skin disorders (such as some forms of lupus and lichen planus) often result in scars that destroy the ability of the hair to regenerate. Hot combs and hair too tightly woven and pulled can also result in permanent hair loss.</span><br />
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<br />New York Dermatologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04651043981281455909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453305935003584003.post-45160289011428108632014-08-17T05:31:00.001-07:002014-08-17T05:31:06.189-07:00Hairless Man Now Hairy, Thanks to Arthritis Drug NYC New York NY<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;"> A man with a rare condition that left him with no hair on his body grew a full head of hair after taking an arthritis drug, a new study reveals.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">The 25-year-old patient also grew eyebrows and eyelashes, along with facial, armpit and other hair after treatment with tofacitinib citrate.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">The man's lack of body hair was caused by a disease called alopecia universalis. The researchers said this is the first reported case of a successful targeted treatment for the disorder, which has no cure or long-term treatment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">"The results are exactly what we hoped for," study senior author Dr. Brett King, an assistant professor of dermatology at Yale University School of Medicine, said in a university news release.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">"This is a huge step forward in the treatment of patients with this condition," King said. "While it's one case, we anticipated the successful treatment of this man based on our current understanding of the disease and the drug. We believe the same results will be duplicated in other patients, and we plan to try."</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">The patient took 10 milligrams a day of the arthritis drug, according to the study, published online June 18 in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">After two months, he began to grow scalp and facial hair, the first hair he'd grown in these areas in seven years. After three more months taking 15 milligrams a day of the drug, he had a full head of hair and clearly visible eyebrows and eyelashes, as well as facial, armpit and other hair.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">After eight months, the man had full re-growth of his body hair. He reported feeling no side effects and lab tests detected no problems.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">It's likely that the drug triggered hair re-growth by switching off the immune system attack on hair follicles that occurs in people with alopecia universalis, said King.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Tofacitinib citrate (marketed as Xeljanz) is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. King next hopes to conduct a clinical trial to test a cream form of tofacitinib citrate in treating people with alopecia universalis.</span>New York Dermatologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04651043981281455909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453305935003584003.post-50714537399269670382014-05-17T07:54:00.004-07:002014-05-17T07:54:47.815-07:00Finasteride to Treat Hair Loss nyc new york ny<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Generic brands of finasteride should be perfectly safe. A 5mg dosage is the prescribed amount for the treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy and is far too much to treat hair loss. Studies show that .2mg per day of finasteride will decrease the concentration of DHT and stop hair loss. Propecia and other brands typically come in 1mg doses, so do not take more than that. Additionally, you should know that finasteride is only effective for stopping hair loss at the vertex of the scalp and will not affect the hairline. Finasteride will only work for as long as you take it; once you discontinue use, the hair will begin falling out again. The only permanent solution to hair loss is surgical hair transplantation.</span>New York Dermatologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04651043981281455909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453305935003584003.post-89677925360422023482014-03-13T07:38:00.003-07:002014-03-13T07:38:46.941-07:00Traction Alopecia Can Lead to Scarring NYC New York NY<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: white;"> I would first recommend discontinuing the brading-- I still still a number of hair follicle units in your photo (though difficult from that one photo to assess) and you may find many of the hairs grow back with sufficient time without braiding. Unfortunately, scarring may have occurred, which is quite common with traction alopecia. In this case, a surgical treatment, such as<br /><br />hair transplant, would be necessary. No topical agents will cause regrowth in an area of scarring hair loss.<br /></span></span>New York Dermatologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04651043981281455909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453305935003584003.post-80742644110899256242014-02-15T17:07:00.004-08:002014-02-15T17:07:18.913-08:00Laser not effective treatment for Alopecia Areata nyc new york ny<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Alopecia areata is caused by inflammation around the hair follicle which results in the hair shafts falling out. Most cases of alopecia areata are localized circular patches, but same patients experience a more diffuse version in which the scalp hair becomes very thin without any noticeable "bald" patches. In many patients, white hair appearing at sites of alopecia areata is encouraging as this may be "new" hair re-growing. The standard treatments are low dose intralesional kenalog injections and topical steroids. Laser does not have any role in reducing the inflammation around the hair follicles. It is very important to see a board certified dermatologist regularly while being treated for alopecia areata so the side effects of these steroids can be monitored and managed if and when they first appear</span>New York Dermatologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04651043981281455909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453305935003584003.post-87354096276274898372013-08-21T08:14:00.001-07:002013-08-21T08:14:10.913-07:00Alopecia Areata Treatment Options NYC New York NY<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Alopecia Areata typically presents with patchy hair loss in the scalp. Though the exact etiology is unknown, many different treatments have been tried with varying degrees of success. We have treated many patients with Alopecia Areata with an all natural, botanical oil product with significant improvement in scalp hair growth. </span></span>New York Dermatologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04651043981281455909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453305935003584003.post-195655929834189162013-08-21T08:12:00.004-07:002013-08-21T08:12:21.447-07:00Cicatricial Alopecia NYC New York NY<div class="grid-item" style="background-color: white; display: table; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.5px;">
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<span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">Transplants can be done in cicatricial alopecia, but the growth of the grafts may not be ideal because of comprmised circulation. We prefer transpostion flaps which allow us to to remove the alopecia and replace this with normal scalp.</span></div>
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New York Dermatologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04651043981281455909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453305935003584003.post-20477897933997454732013-08-21T08:10:00.003-07:002013-08-21T08:10:23.617-07:00Hair Transplant for Alopecia Patient NYC New York NY<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="color: white; font-size: xx-small;">If the cicatricial alopecia is burned out and stabilized. I have successfully put grafts in scar tissue. The key is whether or not your cause of hair loss is inactive. </span></span>New York Dermatologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04651043981281455909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8453305935003584003.post-60250807810204877132012-08-13T05:53:00.001-07:002012-08-13T05:53:54.114-07:00New York Dermatologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04651043981281455909noreply@blogger.com