Comparison between skin based and hair based suspension in treatment of white hairs in vitiligo.
Phase 2
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- VITILIGO
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2017/11/010338
- Lead Sponsor
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
1.Patients >= 15 years of age with vitiligo with at least one year duration of disease stability
2.Patients with minimum 1 vitiligo lesion with minimum of 15 leukotrichia hairs.
3.Patients consenting to participate in the study
Exclusion Criteria
1.Pregnancy
2.Koebnerization
3.Keloid or bleeding diathesis
4.Active infection at the site
5.Inability to come for follow-up for at least 6 months
6.Patients with hair disorders
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.To compare the efficacy of NCEHFORSCS with NCES in the repigmentation of leukotrichia in vitiligo patch.Timepoint: at the end of 9 months post-surgical
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.To compare the efficacy of NCEHFORSCS with NCES in repigmentation of vitiligo. <br/ ><br>2.Comparison of constituent cells like keratinocytes, melanocytes and melanoblasts in both the cell suspensions <br/ ><br>3.We will attempt to find whether the melanocyte stem cells are lost in the bulge area of hair follicle in leukotrichia and if so, whether they are restored after the repigmentation of leukotrichia after transplantation in 5 patientsTimepoint: 9 months