Alopecia Totalis and Vitiligo in Common Variable Immunodeficiency

Overview

Journal Postgrad Med J

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1991 Mar 1

PMID 2062780

Citations 3

Authors

G Spickett

A G Prentice

T Wallington

A D Webster

H Chapel

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Abstract

Three cases of severe and irreversible alopecia occurring in patients with common variable immunodeficiency are described. In all three cases, hair loss developed after the diagnosis of immune deficiency; one of the patients also had extensive vitiligo. A fourth patient had vitiligo in the absence of alopecia. No change in the alopecia or vitiligo was noted in any patient as a result of immunoglobulin replacement therapy.

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