Bimatoprost in Dermatology

Bimatoprost is a prostamide analogue used for treatment of glaucoma in ophthalmology. Surprisingly, the side effects such as increased pigmentation of eyelids and hypertrichosis in patients being treated with prostaglandin analogues for glaucoma have opened new areas of application in various dermat...

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Autores principales: Jha, Abhijeet K., Sarkar, Rashmi, Udayan, Uday K., Roy, P. K., Jha, Amar K., Chaudhary, R. K. P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Drug Profile
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5956885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29854658
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_62_16
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author Jha, Abhijeet K.
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Chaudhary, R. K. P.
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description Bimatoprost is a prostamide analogue used for treatment of glaucoma in ophthalmology. Surprisingly, the side effects such as increased pigmentation of eyelids and hypertrichosis in patients being treated with prostaglandin analogues for glaucoma have opened new areas of application in various dermatological disorders such as alopecia mainly affecting eyelashes, eyebrows, and vitiligo.
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spelling pubmed-59568852018-05-31 Bimatoprost in Dermatology Jha, Abhijeet K. Sarkar, Rashmi Udayan, Uday K. Roy, P. K. Jha, Amar K. Chaudhary, R. K. P. Indian Dermatol Online J Drug Profile Bimatoprost is a prostamide analogue used for treatment of glaucoma in ophthalmology. Surprisingly, the side effects such as increased pigmentation of eyelids and hypertrichosis in patients being treated with prostaglandin analogues for glaucoma have opened new areas of application in various dermatological disorders such as alopecia mainly affecting eyelashes, eyebrows, and vitiligo. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5956885/ /pubmed/29854658 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_62_16 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Dermatology Online Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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