Dott. Andrea Marliani M.D. Firenze The term Cyberchondria is a neologism deriving from the union of the words cyber and hypochondria. It indicates a patient’s unfounded concern about common symptoms resulting from web searches. Cyberchondria is an emerging and highly topical problem for healthcare professionals. Through the web anyone can search for any pathology
Read moreCOVID-19 and Hair EDITORIAL Dr Andrea Marliani M.D. Firenze Introduction Hair loss after an event such as infections with febrile episodes is well known. In this period we are seeing a high number of patients with hair loss linked in some way to Covid-19 and the latency period between the infectious episode
Read moreDismorphophobia (Or the “non-ailment”) Andrea Marliani MD Firenze In dermatology, and especially in trichology, we are encountering an increasing number of patients who are convinced that they have alopecia, or some serious skin ailment, when (in actual fact) they have no real pathology whatsoever! 20 years ago, we would have said it was
Read moreThe Man, the Doctor and SARS-COV-2 Giuseppe Palamara I write this little memoir to tell my personal and direct experience with Covid-19: experience as a man, but in particular as a doctor. Who I was, where I come from, who I am As a boy I always dreamed of being able to practice
Read moreor… Low Local Estrone Alopecia: Alopecia caused by insufficient local follicular estrone activity. Andrea Marliani Italian Society of Trichology Firenze Two essential intrafollicular hormones regulate hair cycles: diidrotestosterone and estrone. Diidrotestosterone reduces adenylcyclase activity so that the follicle turns into catagen and the hair becomes telogen. Estrone increases adenylcyclase activity,
Read moreOne Opinion About The Duration Of The Catagen Phase Andrea Marliani The catagen phase begins when there are no longer mitotic cells in the matrix. It ends with the loss of the sheaths, when the bulb reaches the infundibulum. There is some disagreement about how long the catagen phase lasts. Perhaps anatomy and histology
Read moreThe Hair Clock, Or (to put it another way) Why is hair growth cyclical? Andrea Marliani, M.D. For medical hair specialists, and also for hair transplantation surgeons, it is very important to understand the physiology of hair because this can suggest simple therapies that may really improve the outcome of a transplant. Hair
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