Hair transplant, regenerative medicine studies top dermatology, aesthetics reads for week

Study results related to hair transplants, including that men with hair transplants were perceived as younger and more attractive, were among the most-read articles of the past week on Healio.com/Dermatology and Healio.com/Aesthetics.

Other widely read articles included a literature review finding that regenerative medicine techniques and platelet-rich plasma are being studied and used to varying degrees of success in facial and plastic reconstructive surgery:

Combined laser, autologous hair transplantation and phototherapy may treat refractory vitiligo

Fractional CO₂ laser pretreatment, along with autologous hair transplantation and narrow-band UVB phototherapy demonstrated efficacy in treating refractory and stable vitiligo, according to published study results.

Amir Feily , MD, of the dermatology department at Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran, and colleagues studied 20 patients (15 women; mean age, 30.6 years) in Iran with symmetrical and stable refractory vitiligo and Fitzpatrick skin type IV. Read more

Men with hair transplants perceived as younger, more attractive

Men with hair transplants were perceived as younger, more attractive, successful and approachable, when compared with pretransplant images of the same men, according to study results recently published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery.

Researchers conducted an online survey of 122 participants (47.5% men; mean age, 27.1 years) between Nov. 10 and Dec. 6, 2015. Read more

Regenerative medicine in facial and plastic reconstructive surgery reviewed

Regenerative medicine techniques and platelet-rich plasma are being studied and used to varying degrees of success in facial and plastic reconstructive surgery, according to a literature review recently published in JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery.

“The field of regenerative medicine aims at enhancing tissue healing and regeneration through the exogenous addition of therapeutic growth factors and cells, often in combination with tissue-compatible scaffolds,” Matthew Q. Miller, MD, of the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, and colleagues wrote. Read more

Risk factors may predict persistent atopic dermatitis in children

Childhood atopic dermatitis subsides by adulthood in most cases; however, clinical factors such as already persistent disease, later onset, and/or more severe disease increases the risk for persistence, according to recent study results.

“Atopic dermatitis (AD)/eczema is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with a clinical course that varies widely between patients,” Jonathan I. Silverberg, MD, PhD, MPH, of the department of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and colleagues wrote. Read more

Face transplant recipient continues successful recovery 1 year later

The recipient of the most extensive face transplant ever performed is experiencing a successful recovery at the 1-year anniversary of the surgery, according to NYU Langone Medical Center.

Patrick Hardison, 42, experienced facial burns resulting in extensive disfigurement during a firefighting incident in 2001. Since the transplant, he has never had an incident in which his body has attempted to reject the new face, according to a press release from NYU Langone, where the surgery was performed. Read more