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EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 2, Pages 288-290Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/exd.14259
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alopecia; COVID-19 severity; dystrophic anagen effluvium; grey hair; telogen effluvium
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Recent studies have found potential correlations between hair shedding during the COVID-19 pandemic and androgenetic alopecia and grey hair, with the severity of the disease affecting the onset and severity of hair loss.
The novel viral pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has sparked uncertainties as to its origin, epidemiology and natural course. The study of the cutaneous manifestations of COVID-19 has evolved with the hope that they may be useful as markers for the disease, prognostication and pathogenic insights into the disease. With regard to the hair, clinicopathological correlations have remained elusive. More recently, androgenetic alopecia and grey hair have been proposed as cutaneous markers for elevated severity risk. So far, we have only observed postinfectious effluvium in a causal association with COVID-19. The onset and acuity of hair shedding depended on the clinical severity of disease. There was complete recovery of hair.
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