@article{Bishwokarma Ghimire_2018, title={Clinical Outcome and Safety Profile of Patients Underwent Hair Transplantation Surgery by Follicular Unit Extraction}, volume={56}, url={http://www.jnma.com.np/jnma/index.php/jnma/article/view/3499}, DOI={10.31729/jnma.3499}, abstractNote={<p class="p1"> </p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2"><strong>Introduction: </strong></span>Hair transplant surgery is a minimally invasive surgery, where hair follicle is transplanted from donor area of patient’s own body to the desired area.</p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2"><strong>Methods: </strong></span>Patient with hair transplant surgery from a clinic were followed up for one year. The patients were asked for their complications within 2 days, 7 days, one month, 2 to 6 months and one year for assessment of results, side effects. At the end of one-year, subjective evaluation was done with patient’s satisfaction to growth as- poor growth, satisfactory and good growth.</p> <p class="p2"><span class="s2"><strong>Results: </strong></span>Out of 152 patients, maximum patients 74 (48.6%) were in age group 21-30, followed by 61 (40.01%) in age group 31-40, mean age was 31.79, youngest being 21 years and oldest being 70 years of age. Among the complications, swelling of forehead was in more than two- thirds of the patients 106 (69.74%), followed by temporary hair fall noted in 65 (42.76%) of patients. Clients’ remarks noted at the end on one-year revealed 86.18% as excellent results, 11.84% as satisfactory and 1.97% as poor results.</p> <p class="p3"><span class="s2"><strong>Conclusions: </strong></span>Hair transplant sugary by FUE is a relatively safe surgery with optimum results and minimum complications, which can be useful to patients with androgenetic alopecia.</p>}, number={209}, journal={Journal of Nepal Medical Association}, author={Bishwokarma Ghimire, Rupak}, year={2018}, month={Feb.}, pages={540–543} }