What is Alopecia Areata?
What is Alopecia Areata?
- Alopecia Areata: A condition involving one or more bald patches on the head. These patches may merge and lead to complete baldness.
- Alopecia Areata: A microscopically inflammatory, usually reversible, patchy hair loss occurring in sharply defined areas and usually involving the beard or scalp. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Source - Diseases Database
- Alopecia Areata: patchy baldness.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Alopecia Areata is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Alopecia Areata, or a subtype of Alopecia Areata,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Alopecia Areata: Introduction
Types of Alopecia Areata:
Broader types of Alopecia Areata:
How serious is Alopecia Areata?
Complications of Alopecia Areata:
see complications of Alopecia Areata
What causes Alopecia Areata?
Causes of Alopecia Areata: see causes of Alopecia Areata
What are the symptoms of Alopecia Areata?
Symptoms of Alopecia Areata:
see symptoms of Alopecia Areata
Complications of Alopecia Areata:
see complications of Alopecia Areata
Can anyone else get Alopecia Areata?
Contagion of autoimmunity:
generally not; see details in contagion of autoimmune diseases.
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Alopecia Areata
Alopecia Areata: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Alopecia Areata.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Alopecia Areata.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Alopecia Areata:
see treatments for Alopecia Areata
Research for Alopecia Areata:
see research for Alopecia Areata
Society issues for Alopecia Areata
Hospitalization statistics for Alopecia Areata:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Alopecia Areata:
- 0.0004% (54) of hospital consultant episodes were for alopecia areata in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 98% of hospital consultant episodes for alopecia areata required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 31% of hospital consultant episodes for alopecia areata were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 69% of hospital consultant episodes for alopecia areata were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 8% of hospital consultant episodes for alopecia areata required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Alopecia Areata:
Organs and body systems related to Alopecia Areata include:
Name and Aliases of Alopecia Areata
Main name of condition: Alopecia Areata
Class of Condition for Alopecia Areata: autoimmune
Other names or spellings for Alopecia Areata:
alopecia celsi, alopecia circumscripta, cazenave vitiligo, celsus vitiligo, Jonston alopecia, Porrigo Decalvans, vitiligo capitis, AA, Diffuse alopecia, Patchy alopecia, Marginal alopecia
Alopecia circumscripta
Source - Diseases Database
AA, Diffuse alopecia, Marginal alopecia, Patchy alopecia
Source - Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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