update?

Bradley

I personally think that the further development of BHT FIT will be the next saving grace to come - especially once DEm is confirmed. In "development", I mean a better understanding of its dynamics and timetable aong with a lesser degree of donor scarring. With this said, I am curious, is there are any side studies that Cole or IHTi is partcipating in regarding HM. Any one still giving this a shot or is it left up to the two big companies?

drcole

We performed a HM trial dating back about 2 years ago. The patitents came from all over. this presented a problem with adequate follow up. In addition, we transfered body to body hair. This presented anohter problem because at best one can expect a 60% growth rate from body to body transplants. Therefore, even though we did see some growth, the data was very difficult to interpret. We would like to re-define the study in the future using patients closer to our office so that we can monitor the data and to use head to head transfers where the growth rate should approxmate 90%.