Successful Treatment of Multiplex Alopecia Areata Using Transactional Analysis: A Case Report

The patient was a 13-year-old female. Six years previously, she developed alopecia areata when her parents divorced. One year after that, the bald area drastically expanded when her mother remarried. She was treated at her local hospital; however, no improvement was observed. She then visited our ho...

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Autores principales: Yamakita, Takashi, Shimizu, Yoshinori, Arima, Masaru, Ashihara, Mutsumi, Matsunaga, Kayoko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Published online: October, 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25493080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368821
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author Yamakita, Takashi
Shimizu, Yoshinori
Arima, Masaru
Ashihara, Mutsumi
Matsunaga, Kayoko
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description The patient was a 13-year-old female. Six years previously, she developed alopecia areata when her parents divorced. One year after that, the bald area drastically expanded when her mother remarried. She was treated at her local hospital; however, no improvement was observed. She then visited our hospital for examination. A bald patch was covering >80% of her head. Self Grow-Up Egogram indicated the basic interpersonal relationship stance of ‘I am not OK, You are OK’. We therefore implemented a transactional analysis approach to increase the patient's score on the Free Child subscale. New hair growth was observed after 6 months and the bald patch disappeared after 2 years. Our results suggest that this method could also be easily applied in a clinical setting by dermatologists.
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spelling pubmed-42559992014-12-09 Successful Treatment of Multiplex Alopecia Areata Using Transactional Analysis: A Case Report Yamakita, Takashi Shimizu, Yoshinori Arima, Masaru Ashihara, Mutsumi Matsunaga, Kayoko Case Rep Dermatol Published online: October, 2014 The patient was a 13-year-old female. Six years previously, she developed alopecia areata when her parents divorced. One year after that, the bald area drastically expanded when her mother remarried. She was treated at her local hospital; however, no improvement was observed. She then visited our hospital for examination. A bald patch was covering >80% of her head. Self Grow-Up Egogram indicated the basic interpersonal relationship stance of ‘I am not OK, You are OK’. We therefore implemented a transactional analysis approach to increase the patient's score on the Free Child subscale. New hair growth was observed after 6 months and the bald patch disappeared after 2 years. Our results suggest that this method could also be easily applied in a clinical setting by dermatologists. S. Karger AG 2014-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4255999/ /pubmed/25493080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368821 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: October, 2014
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Shimizu, Yoshinori
Arima, Masaru
Ashihara, Mutsumi
Matsunaga, Kayoko
Successful Treatment of Multiplex Alopecia Areata Using Transactional Analysis: A Case Report
title Successful Treatment of Multiplex Alopecia Areata Using Transactional Analysis: A Case Report
title_full Successful Treatment of Multiplex Alopecia Areata Using Transactional Analysis: A Case Report
title_fullStr Successful Treatment of Multiplex Alopecia Areata Using Transactional Analysis: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Successful Treatment of Multiplex Alopecia Areata Using Transactional Analysis: A Case Report
title_short Successful Treatment of Multiplex Alopecia Areata Using Transactional Analysis: A Case Report
title_sort successful treatment of multiplex alopecia areata using transactional analysis: a case report
topic Published online: October, 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25493080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368821
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