prognosis and poor prognostic factors
Last reviewed 10/2022
- in people with mild hair loss spontaneous regrowth occurs in 80% of cases; recurrence is more likely, the more extensive the hair loss
- Around 34-40% of patients recover with in 1 year
- Progression to alopecia totalis or alopecia universalis occurs in around 14-25% of the patients (1)
Poor prognostic factors
- ophiasis pattern - multiple lesions at the scalp margins
- loss of eyebrows and eyelashes
- nail change
- associated atopy
- childhood onset
- Chronic and extensive alopecia areata
- Down's syndrome
- Presence of other autoimmune disease (1)
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