Alopecia Areata: A Clinician's Guide

ISBN-13: 9783319721330 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 172 str.

Pooya Khan Mohammad Beigi

Opis

Offering the reader a comprehensive look at the material regarding alopecia areata, this book is divided into several sections: One section encompasses the detailed overview of alopecia areata including its epidemiology, etiology, signs, symptoms, diagnosis, differential diagnosis and treatment options;

Spis treści

Alopecia Areata: A Clinician’s Guide

Author: Pooya Khan Mohammad Beigi

Part 1: Overview

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part 2: Diffuse Alopecia

Chapter 2 - Diffuse alopecia areata

1. Introduction

2. Epidemiology

3. Pathophysiology

4. Diagnosis

5. Differential Diagnosis

6. Treatment

Chapter 3 - Alopecia totalis / universalis

1. Introduction

2. Epidemiology

3. Pathophysiology

4. Diagnosis

5. Treatment

Chapter 4 - Telogen effluvium

1. Introduction

2. Pathogenesis

a) Immediate anagen release

b) Delayed anagen release

c) Short anagen syndrome

d) Immediate telogen release

e) Delayed telogen release

3. Diagnosis/ Clinical Features

a) Acute telogen effluvium

b) Chronic diffuse hair loss

c) Primary chronic telogen effluvium

4. Differential Diagnosis 

5. Treatment

Chapter 5 - Anagen effluvium

1. Introduction

2. Pathophysiology

3. Clinical Presentation

4. Diagnosis Investigation

5. Treatment

6. Differential Diagnosis

Chapter 6 - Loose anagen syndrome

1. Clinical Presentation

2. Hair pull test and Trichogram

3. Histopathology

4. Epidemiology

5. Pathogenesis

6. Treatment and Prognosis

7. Differential Diagnosis

Part 3: Focal Alopecia - Non-scarring Alopecias

Chapter 7 - Androgenetic alopecia (AGA)

1. Introduction

2. Epidemiology & Risk Factors

3. Pathophysiology

4. Diagnosis

5. Differential Diagnosis

6. Treatment

Chapter 8 - Alopecia areata

1. Introduction

2. Etiology

a) Molecular genetics

3. Epidemiology 

4. Diagnosis/ Clinical Features

a) Clinical diagnosis

b) Clinical features

c) Nail abnormalities

d) Associated diseases

e) Biopsy

5. Differential Diagnosis 

a) Tinea capitis

b) Androgenetic alopecia

c) Telogen effluvium

d) Triangular alopecia

e) Cicatricial alopecia

f) Nervous hair pulling (trichotillomania)

6. Treatment 

a) First line therapies

Corticosteroid cream

Topical immunotherapy

b) Second line therapies

c) Systemic therapies

d) Treatment of children with AA

Chapter 9 - Tinea capitis

1. Introduction

2. Epidemiology

3. Clinical Presentation/ Physical findings

4. Diagnosis Workup

5. Treatment

Part 4: Focal Alopecia - Traumatic Hair Loss

Chapter 10 - Trichotillomania (hair pulling disorder)

1. Introduction

2. Epidemiology & Risk Factors

3. Pathophysiology

4. Diagnosis

5. Differential Diagnosis

6. Treatment

Chapter 11 - Traction alopecia

1. Clinical Presentation

2. Epidemiology

3. Histological Findings

4. Treatment

Part 5: Focal Alopecia - Cicatricial Alopecia

Chapter 12 - Chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus

1. Introduction & Clinical Presentation

2. Diagnosis

3. Treatment

Chapter 13 - Lichen planopilaris

1. Introduction & Clinical Presentation

2. Pathogenesis

3. Epidemiology

4. Diagnosis

5. Biopsy/ Histopathology of LPP

6. Treatment

7. Differential Diagnosis

Chapter 14 - Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia

1. Introduction

2. Epidemiology & Risk Factors

3. Pathophysiology

4. Diagnosis

5. Histopathology

6. Differential Diagnosis

7. Treatment

Part 6: Pathology slides

Chapter 15 - Pathology slides

Part 7: Research studies

Chapter 16 - Research study 1

Chapter 17 - Research study 2

Part 8: Case reports and photos

Chapter 18 - Patient descriptions

O autorze

Pooya Khan Mohammad Beigi, MD, MSc, MPH is a Clinical Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada). He is also the Founder/CEO of Misdiagnosis Association and Society (Seattle, WA, USA), and Founder/CEO of Father Medical Charity (Vancouver, BC, Canada).

Dr. Beigi established Misdiagnosis Association and Society (MARI), with the aim of collecting and preparing the most comprehensive database of errors in medicine and conducting related medical research studies, in collaboration with health organizations, universities, clinics, professors and physicians from all around the world.

Also, he founded Father Medical Charity with the goal of helping patients in need, especially those in underdeveloped countries. This Charity collaborates with many physicians and nurses employed in underdeveloped countries, who identify patients in need and refer them to this medical charity to receive the necessary medications or facilitate treatments for them.

Dr. Beigi has presented his research studies to several international conferences, including the 2nd BC eHealth and Innovative Technology, the Canadian Pharmacists 2015, and the 23rd World Congress of Dermatology, etc. He also has written several books for Springer including; Clinician's Guide to Acrodermatitis Enteropathica (2015), Clinician's Guide to Mycosis Fungoides (2016), Clinician's Guide to Pemphigus Vulgaris (2017), Psoriasis: A Clinician's Guide (in development), Clinician's Guide to Vitiligo and other Hypopigmentation Disorders (in development) and Clinician's Guide to Hyperpigmentation Disorders (in development).