Vitiligo is a well-known disease in which patches of skin become depigmented. The cause is unknown, but the autoimmune theory has the widest acceptance. The present case is of a patient who suffered depigmentation of surgically-corrected repigmented skin (transplant). The depigmentation resulted from the use of a proton pump inhibitor medication used to block the […]
View PostVitiligo is an autoimmune disease with the skin melanocyte cells being the immune target. The result is poor skin pigmentation (hypopigmentation.) The melanocyte cells are especially sensitive to immune attack. They contain the free radical scavenging molecule, melanin, and other molecules which are the targets of immune attack in melanoma skin cancer and vitiligo. More […]
View PostVitiligo is a skin condition characterized by patches of poor skin pigmentation (hypopigmentation.) White patches appear on the skin due to the loss of melanin cells (melanocytes.) Half of the cases start before the age of 20. Many vitiligo patients have psychiatric problems as the result of the abnormal skin appearance from vitiligo. This is […]
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