Alopecia areata: An Overview

Introduction: Alopecia areata is a typical ceaseless immune system provocative ailment that includes hair follicles, portrayed by male pattern baldness on the scalp and additionally body without scarring. Clinically, the sickness exhibits as smooth, inconsistent balding with different examples - diffuse or reticulate alopecia, ophiasis, ophiasisinversus, alopecia totalis (loss of hair all the scalp), or alopecia universalis (loss of hair everywhere throughout the body). Clinical conclusion of AA is made dependent on common example of male pattern baldness and the nearness of trademark outcry mark hair in microscopy. Intrusive (punch biopsy) procedures are regularly required sometimes where the clinical finding isn’t straight advance. Biopsy indicates peribulbar lymphocytic invades in a “swarm of honey bee design” which is normal for the intense phase of the illness.

Materials and Method : Study Design: Cross sectional study.

Study Area: Skin Outpatient Department, Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospita

Study Population: All patients with hair loss, attending skin OPD, who are clinically diagnosed as Alopecia areata.

Study Method: Observational study.

Sample Size: 30.

Result: Clinically, the sickness shows as smooth, sketchy balding with different patterns. Dermoscopy is valuable for determination of AA clinically by the nearness of cadaverized hairs (dark dabs), circle hair, coudablity hair, shout mark hairs (decreasing hairs), broken hairs, yellow spots and grouped short vellus hairs in the male pattern baldness territories.