Effect of PRP on male pattern hair loss
- Conditions
- Male androgenetic alopecia.Androgenic alopecia
- Registration Number
- IRCT2016021526563N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice chancellor for research of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Male
- Target Recruitment
- 20
patients include males with male pattern androgenetic alopecia who had acquiescence for participation in this study and their baldness is grade 3v to 5 according to Hamilton-Norwood scaling system. Exclusion criteria: using minoxidil or finasteride in the last 6 months; using any other systemic or topical supplementary drugs for hair growth stimulation in the last 6 months; using drugs that can induce hair loss (eg. Retinoids, heavy metals, antithyroids, anticonvulsants, betablockers and …); specific diseases like thyroid disease, collagen vascular disease …; positive history for any kind of cancer or skin cancer and chemotherapy; any other kind of alopecia ( scaring alopecia, alopecia areata, …); steroid therapy; coagulation disorders, acquisition of aspirin, ticlopidine or other anticoagulative drugs; dialysis patients and platelet disorders (thrombocytopenia); smoker and alcoholic persons and malnutrition; and anytime patient wants to leave the study.
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hair loss improvement and stimulation of hair growth. Timepoint: Measurement on weeks 0, 4, 8, 12 and 3 months after last injection. Method of measurement: Average hair diameter and hair count in unit surface.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Side effects. Timepoint: At the end of treatment (3 months after last injection). Method of measurement: Effectiveness and side effects include local and systemic reactions according to patients and investigator observations.