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Recovery From Alopecia After COVID-19

Herein, we report a remarkable case of post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diffuse alopecia that gradually improved and recovered, and the hair volume returned approximately to the pre-infection level, seven months after the patient’s first diagnosis of COVID-19. Approximately 20% of patients w...

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Autores principales: Otsuka, Yuki, Nakano, Yasuhiro, Hagiya, Hideharu, Tokumasu, Kazuki, Otsuka, Fumio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8831424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35165610
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21160
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author Otsuka, Yuki
Nakano, Yasuhiro
Hagiya, Hideharu
Tokumasu, Kazuki
Otsuka, Fumio
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description Herein, we report a remarkable case of post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diffuse alopecia that gradually improved and recovered, and the hair volume returned approximately to the pre-infection level, seven months after the patient’s first diagnosis of COVID-19. Approximately 20% of patients with COVID-19 develop alopecia a few months after the acute infection phase. Telogen effluvium is the major type of COVID-19 sequela secondary to physical or psychological distress. It is reversible and is expected to improve without any treatment, and it can be addressed by explaining to the patients their conditions, sharing medical information, and eliminating psychophysical stress by managing systemic complications.
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spelling pubmed-88314242022-02-13 Recovery From Alopecia After COVID-19 Otsuka, Yuki Nakano, Yasuhiro Hagiya, Hideharu Tokumasu, Kazuki Otsuka, Fumio Cureus Family/General Practice Herein, we report a remarkable case of post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diffuse alopecia that gradually improved and recovered, and the hair volume returned approximately to the pre-infection level, seven months after the patient’s first diagnosis of COVID-19. Approximately 20% of patients with COVID-19 develop alopecia a few months after the acute infection phase. Telogen effluvium is the major type of COVID-19 sequela secondary to physical or psychological distress. It is reversible and is expected to improve without any treatment, and it can be addressed by explaining to the patients their conditions, sharing medical information, and eliminating psychophysical stress by managing systemic complications. Cureus 2022-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8831424/ /pubmed/35165610 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21160 Text en Copyright © 2022, Otsuka et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8831424/
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