◈ 원형 탈모 치료를 위한 PRP(혈소판풍부혈장)치료 최근 국제모발연구위원회의 소식에 따르면 이탙리아의 Brescia대학과 이스라엘의 Hebrew 대학병원에서 45명의 원형탈모증 환자를 대상으로 PRP(platelet rich plasma:혈소판풍부혈장)치료와 모발성장에 관한 임상 실험을 시행했다고 합니다. 일부의 환자들에게는 PRP주사를 두피에 주입하고, 다른 환자들에게는 스테로이드 연고도포, 그리고 나머지에게는 위약효과로 아무치료도 하지 않은 방법으로 실험을 실행했습니다. 세가지 방법으로 매달 치료를 했으며, 결과는 PRP주사로 치료한 군이 스테로이드와 위약효과 치료군에 비해서 매우 유의하게 모발 재성장을 보였습니다. 아직은 실험 단계이지만 곧 PRP주사를 이용한 원형탈모증 치료가 활성화될 가능성이 있으며 주사제가 아닌 도포용 연고로도 제품이 개발되기를 희망하고 있습니다. 유전적 남성형 탈모에서의 PRP치료는 수차례 임상실험을 해봤지만 유의할 만한 효과가 있지 않았다고 검증되었기 때문에 원형탈모증과 유전적 남성형 탈모를 감별 진단해서 치료하는 것도 중요한 일일 것 같습니다. 더욱더 발전된 탈모치료제가 개발되기를 희망합니다.

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In the News - Small PRP Study Showed Significant Regrowth in Alopecia Areata Patients May 8 2013, 2:02 pm PT | Posted in: Diseases + Other In the latest research by scientists at the International Hair Research Foundation, the University of Brescia in Italy and the Hebrew University Medical Centre in Israel, used 45 sufferers with alopecia areata, affecting two per cent of the population. The patients had injections on one half of their head. Some were given the PRP, some traditional steroid cream, while others received a placebo. Three treatments were given every month. Hair growth was checked by measuring the area where new hairs grew on the bald scalp. Results showed the plasma injections led to significant hair regrowth in the bald patches, compared with the placebo and the steroid treatment. Following the publication of the study in the British Journal of Dermatology, the scientists are hoping to develop a cream, so needles won’t need to be used.

Read the rest — The vampire ‘cure’ for baldness: Scientists inject patient’s own blood into head to stimulate hair growth’ It is important that the readers do not confuse the alopecia areata (an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss) with the genetic male pattern balding condition called androgenic alopecia. Applying platelet-rich plasma (PRP) to androgenic alopecia has been tried over and over again, and despite many attempts to use this treatment for androgenic alopecia, hair growth has never been shown in a clinically valid, controlled study. Although Dr Fabio Rinaldi told the Telegraph that the new treatment could also help those suffering more common hair problems like male-pattern baldness, I think he has gone overboard when he stated, “We think it can help to regrow hair on people with androgenic alopecia“. I strongly suggest that those people with classic male patterned baldness (androgenic alopecia) to not get suckered into the many doctors who have been selling this treatment for years.