Successful treatment of female-pattern hair loss with spironolactone in a 9-year-old girl.
A 9-year-old prepubertal girl with female pattern hair loss treated with spironolactone 100 mg orally per day had objective improvement demonstrated by regrowth observed clinically and on comparison of pre- and post-treatment stereotactic scalp photographs taken 6 months apart.
Yazdabadi
Anosha
A
Department of Dermatology, St. Vincent's Hospital and The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. yazdaa27@gmail.com
Green
Jack
J
Sinclair
Rod
R
D000284:Administration, Oral; D000505:Alopecia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000451:Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013148:Spironolactone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D000451:Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists; D013148:Spironolactone