We report the case of a male patient with a normal development in the first three months of life, presenting for global regression, central axial hypotonic syndrome, pyramidal syndrome, focal epileptic seizures, and a particular aspect of the hair - almost absent, short, sparse, lightly colored, at age of five months, becoming coarse, twisted (kinky hair) by the age of 21 months. Different dise...

The hair and nails are rapidly growing structures and as such their cell division can be interrupted by disease states and iatrogenic treatments. Other internal diseases can alter the structure and color of the hair and nails. These alterations in the hair and nails supply important information to the physician regarding the underlying diagnosis.

Background: The association between coronary artery disease and androgenic alopecia has been demonstrated, but few studies have focused on the mechanism of this association. The aim of this study was to evaluate the lipid profile in male pattern alopecia.Methods: In this case control study, 45 male patients with androgenic alopecia who were aged from 20 to 50 years and 45 men with a norma...

Ultrasonography is an accurate and accessible method for detecting polycystic kidney disease (PKD), an inherited autosomal dominant disease, and other urinary tract diseases. The present work is a preliminary study of PKD and urinary tract abnormalities using ultrasonography in Persian and other long hair cats in Iran. This study was conducted on 83 cats including 68 Persian cats and 15 Persian...

Kawasaki disease is a multi system disorder with varying clinical expressions. This disease is an acute systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology that has recently recognized as a leading cause of acquired heart disease in children of many developed countries. We describe an unusual instance of hair loss in a patient with Kawasaki disease. A 26 months old boy developed prolonged high fever, bilat...

Keywords Disease name Included diseases Definition and diagnosis criteria Differential diagnosis Frequency Clinical description Management and treatment Etiology Diagnostic methods Genetic counseling Unresolved questions References Abstract Woolly hair is a rare congenital abnormality of structure of scalp hair. It is marked by extreme kinkiness of hair in Caucasians. Woolly hair is either alre...

Alopecia areata is a prevalent autoimmune skin disease resulting in the loss of hair on the scalp and elsewhere on the body. It usually starts with one or more small, round, smooth patches on the scalp and can progress to total scalp hair loss (alopecia totalis) or complete body hair loss (alopecia universalis). The scalp is the most commonly affected area, but the beard or any hair-bearing sit...

Primary cicatricial alopecias (PCA) are a diverse group of inflammatory hair disorders of unknown aetiology, clinically characterised by the loss of hair shafts, visible follicular ostia, and variable degrees of scalp inflammation. The hair follicle is the primary target of the disease process and persistent inflammation leads to irreversible damage to the hair follicle’s stem cells. Ultimately...

We provide a patient, habitually used a hair dye contained P-araphenylenediamine once every month for almost six years, who presents elevated creatinine and proteinuria and renal interstitial fibrosis by renal biopsy. Hair dye is widely used all over the world. There have been some literatures about hair dye induced acute kidney injury, but few about the topical application of it can induce chr...

Tufted hair folliculitis is a rare folliculitis of the scalp that resolves with patches of scarring alopecia within multiple hair tufts emerging from dilated follicular orifices. Tufting of hair is caused by clustering of adjacent follicular units due to a fibrosing process and to retention of telogen hairs within a dilated follicular orifice. Various pathogenetic mechanisms have been proposed ...