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Hair Loss (Alopecia) - General (Diffuse and Focal) Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

DIFFUSE
Scarring - Irreversible-biopsy required
 • Lupus
Hair Loss (Alopecia ... scalp and facial hair ... (all body hair) ... • Congenital hair ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #causes
Focal / Localized Hair Loss (Alopecia) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Scarring - Irreversible-biopsy required
 - Infectious
Focal / Localized Hair ... Reversible - Broken Hair ... • Congenital hair ... abnormalities - Hair ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #causes
Diffuse Hair Loss (Alopecia) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm

Scarring - Irreversible-biopsy required
 • Lupus erythematosus
 • Lichen
Diffuse Hair Loss ... (Alopecia) - Differential ... scalp and facial hair ... (all body hair) ... Diagnosis #Algorithm #causes
Lupus (SLE): Mucocutaneous Manifestations

 • Langerhan cells and keratinocytes release cytokines -> localized inflammatory response ->
areas -> Scaring alopecia ... inflammation onto hair ... follicles -> causes ... Destruction of hair ... mechanism) -> Alopecia
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA): Extra-articular manifestations
Skin: 
 • Inflammation of skin (esp. over areas of stress) forms
Auto-immune attack on hair ... follicles -> Alopecia ... inflammation tends to cause
Allopecia - Differential Diagnosis Framework for Hair Loss

Localized / Focal Hair Loss Pattern:
 • Scarring Alopecia:
Framework for Hair ... Localized / Focal Hair ... - Broken Hair ... Diffuse Hair ... Scaling, pustules, crusts
Secondary Disseminated Syphilis

Case from my residency that @EstradaElJefe helped me publish in JGIM. One important finding
Disseminated Syphilis Case ... is the patchy alopecia ... Photo #SkinRash #Alopecia
Drugs Causing Acute Pancreatitis

Class Ia: The medications in which there was a rechallenge and other causes
rechallenge and other causes ... out other common causes ... Class II: Cases ... and atleast4 case ... #Pancreatitis #Causes
Nonscarring Alopecias: Clinical features of the most common types
Patterned hair loss:
 - Age: puberty or older
Nonscarring Alopecias ... Distribution: generalized Alopecia ... multifocal - Total alopecia ... in 5% of cases ... frontoparietal scalps #Alopecia
Peripheral Blood shows a subset of atypical lymphocytes with hairy-like cytoplasmic projection.
#Clinical #Path #BloodSmear #Blood #Smear
lymphocytes with hairy-like ... #Blood #Smear #Hairy