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- Alopecia areata – Causes and Associated Conditions
- Alopecia Areata Information
- Alopecia Areata Treatment
- Course of Sudden Hair Loss Telogen Effluvium
- Evaluation and Treatment of Sudden Hairloss Telogen Effluvium
- Female Pattern Baldness and Hair Loss Causes
- Female Pattern Baldness and Hair Loss in Women
- Female Pattern Hair Loss Evaluation and Testing
- Female Pattern Hair Loss Treatment
- Hair loss and Alopecia Introduction
- Hair Loss Due To Hair Pulling – Trichotillomania
- Hair Loss Treatment and Male Pattern Baldness Medicine
- Loose Anagen Hair Syndrome
- Male Patern Baldness Causes and Hair Loss
- Male Pattern Baldness and Hair Loss Information
- Sudden Hair Loss Telogen Effluvium
- Traction Alopecia Hair Loss
- Traction Alopecia Hair Loss Treatment
- Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia
- Discoid Lupus Erythematosus – Clinical
- Discoid Lupus Erythematosus – Histology
- Discoid Lupus Erythematosus – Treatment
- Follicular Degeneration Syndrome
- Folliculitis Decalvans – Clinical
- Folliculitis Decalvans Treatment
- Hair Loss Alopecia With Scarring Information
- Lichen Planopilaris
- Lichen Planopilaris – Clinical Features
- Lichen Planopilaris Treatment
Video Topics
Course of Sudden Hair Loss Telogen Effluvium
Chronic TE is defined as increased shedding lasting at least 6 months, but usually greater than one year. Chronic TE can last for many years with fluctuating severity. Its onset may be abrupt or gradual. A definite trigger is often not identified in patients with chronic TE. Chronic TE usually affects middle-aged women, many of whom give a history of extremely thick hair prior to the onset of their problem.
Women with chronic TE may have normal-appearing hair (albeit thinner than the patient’s normal hair) or may show shorter frontal hairs or bitemporal thinning. Women with chronic TE often state that they have lost half or one third of their hair. A woman with chronic TE may complain that she is unable to grow her hair as long as she could in the past. Unlike in FPHL, the occipital and crown part widths are approximately the same in patients with both acute and chronic TE.