Alopecia Areata: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment & Regrowth - Cleveland Clinic
网页2023年8月30日 · Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that attacks your body’s hair follicles, causing patchy hair loss. Medications and therapies can help your hair regrow, though severe cases may not respond to treatment.
Alopecia Areata: Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment - DermNet
网页Alopecia areata is an autoimmune condition affecting hair follicles causing hair loss. It typically presents with discrete bald patches on the scalp but can cause hair loss from all hair-bearing areas on the body.
Alopecia Areata - Hair loss Causes & Living With It | NIAMS
网页Alopecia areata is a disease that happens when the immune system attacks hair follicles and causes hair loss. Hair follicles are the structures in skin that form hair. While hair can be lost from any part of the body, alopecia areata usually affects the head and face.
Alopecia Areata > Fact Sheets - Yale Medicine
网页Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease that affects about two out of 100 people, causing hair loss that may come and go over a patient’s lifetime—or the hair loss may be constant. In patients with alopecia areata, immune cells attack hair follicles, which results in …
Alopecia Areata: Hair Loss Causes, Treatment, and More - Healthline
网页2023年10月19日 · Alopecia areata is a common hair loss condition that develops when your immune system attacks your hair follicles. It affects nearly 7 million people in the...
What is alopecia areata and how is it managed? - Harvard Health
网页2022年4月28日 · Alopecia areata (AA) occurs when the body's immune system attacks hair follicles, resulting in hair loss. AA can affect the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, or anywhere hair grows on the body. What causes alopecia areata? The immune system protects the body against foreign invaders like bacteria or allergens.
Alopecia Areata - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
网页2024年2月8日 · Alopecia areata is a chronic, immune-mediated autoimmune disorder that affects hair follicles, nails, and, occasionally, the retinal pigment epithelium. This condition targets the anagen hair follicles of individuals and leads to hair loss without permanent damage to the follicles.
Alopecia Areata Basics: Overview, Symptoms, and Causes
网页Alopecia areata is a disease that causes hair loss. In alopecia areata, the immune system attacks the structures in skin that form hair (hair follicles). Alopecia areata usually affects the head and face, though hair can be lost from any part of the body.
Hair loss types: Alopecia areata diagnosis and treatment
网页Alopecia areata can lead to widespread hair loss, complete loss of hair on the scalp (alopecia totalis), or loss of all hair on the body (alopecia universalis). Few people with extensive hair loss regrow their hair without help. A …
Alopecia Areata: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Steps to Take
网页What is alopecia areata? It is a condition that attacks your hair follicles (they make hair). In most cases, hair falls out in small, round patches.