FUE Hair Transplant Using Only Head Hair for Treatment of Lupus

Hair Loss History:

The following patient has a diagnosis of Lupus that has resulted in problematic scarring in the face as well as the scalp (cicatricial alopecia). She is being treated via FUE hair transplant at DermHair Clinic under the “Complementary Treatment Program.” At the time of presentation, the patient had been with LE condition for several years. It started with sun sensitive expanding inflammatory lesions that later became scarred. In the scalp, it resulted in hair loss in the affected areas.

She has been on lupus medications that consisted of injectibles, oral medications and topicals at the time of presentation. Upon presentation we took biopsies at strategic areas of the lesion and reformatted her treatment to suit the survival of hair grafts post FUE hair transplantation. Our findings upon examining the histologic slides encouraged us to proceed with plans for hair transplantation as a viable option.

Surgery:

First an FUE hair transplant test session was done on two separate foci of the scalp lesion 3 MONTHS PRIOR ~50 grafts were shared between the two foci.

Donor Harvesting:

In female FUE patients especially, hair length and volume tends to be a concern, the nature and extent of hair shaving options and downtime implications(if any) must be discussed ahead of time. In this patient, the recipient area was not at issue.

A 900 graft FUE surgery was performed and results are shown at 9 months.