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Skin-related quality of life in HIV-infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapyParadi Mirmirani
Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 0316, USA
J Cutan Med Surg 6:10-5. 2002..The overall health status and survival of HIV-infected patients has changed with the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). With this improved survival, there is a greater urgency to study quality-of-life issues...
Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia: Superimposed tinea capitis as the etiology of chronic scalp pruritusCharles Chiang
Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Dermatol Online J 14:3. 2008..The rarity of severe pruritus in CCCA should prompt a search for a fungal infection in these patients...
Short course of oral cyclosporine in lichen planopilarisParadi Mirmirani
Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, CA 94117, USA
J Am Acad Dermatol 49:667-71. 2003..In all 3 patients alleviation of symptoms, resolution of clinical activity, and halting progression of hair loss was achieved in 3 to 5 months with sustained effect at 12 months after a short course of cyclosporine therapy...
Hair follicle stem cell-specific PPARgamma deletion causes scarring alopeciaPratima Karnik
Department of Dermatology, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
J Invest Dermatol 129:1243-57. 2009..We propose that PPARgamma-targeted therapy may represent a new strategy in the treatment of these disorders...
Primary cicatricial alopecia: histopathologic findings do not distinguish clinical variantsParadi Mirmirani
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
J Am Acad Dermatol 52:637-43. 2005..The varied clinical features and differences in terminology have led to difficulties in defining consistent clinicopathologic correlation...
Hair loss remedies--separating fact from fictionIlian Bandaranayake
Department of Dermatology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA
Cutis 73:107-14. 2004..We intend for this information to serve as a "consumer report" for healthcare providers and patients and to help separate some of the valid claims for hair regrowth from those that are purely fiction...
Clinical approach to the patient with alopeciaAmy Han
Case Western School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology, Cleveland, OH, USA
Semin Cutan Med Surg 25:11-23. 2006..This review will present a clinical approach to the patient with alopecia by describing the history, clinical findings, and diagnosis of various hair loss disorders...
How to approach hair loss in womenParadi Mirmirani
Department of Dermatology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Vallejo, CA, USA
Dermatol Nurs 19:531-5. 2007..Lastly, recommendations for effectively counseling women with hair loss are provided...
Bandlike frontal hair loss in a 62-year-old womanParadi Mirmirani
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Arch Dermatol 139:1363-8. 2003
Does D matter? The role of vitamin D in hair disorders and hair follicle cyclingKarrie T Amor
Department of Dermatology, University of Texas and MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Dermatol Online J 16:3. 2010..The role of vitamin D in the proliferation and differentiation of keratinocytes is well known within the field of dermatology...
Hair changes in women from the Women's Interagency HIV StudyParadi Mirmirani
Arch Dermatol 139:105-6. 2003
