Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Perfusion
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Kirk, A.
Right arrow Articles by Nashef, S.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Kirk, A.
Right arrow Articles by Nashef, S.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Alopecia following cardiopulmonary bypass

Ajb Kirk

Western Infirmary, Glasgow

Sam Nashef

Western Infirmary, Glasgow

This paper discusses a case of alopecia after aortocoronary bypass grafting, presenting three weeks after surgery. A subsequent prospective study of 100 patients undergoing open-heart surgery with total cardiopulmonary bypass demonstrated that six patients (6%) developed alopecia in the parieto-occipital region of the scalp. Possible causes of this are described, i.e. relative scalp ischaemia due to hypotension and hypotermia during bypass, heparinization and local pressure. All patches of alopecia showed complete regrowth of hair by six months. As alopecia is a source of considerable anxiety to patients the self-limiting nature of the condition allows full and adequate reassurance to be given.

Perfusion, Vol. 1, No. 3, 193-195 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/026765918600100307
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?