Using Antibiotics to Control Inflammation in CCCA Patients presented by Andrew F. Alexis, MD, MPH, FAAD

One of the most common conditions that I treat on a daily basis is Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, or CCCA, which is a primary cicatricial alopecia that’s predominantly lymphocytic. Lymphocytic inflammation is a key component in the pathogenesis of the disease. So, that being said, our treatments are anti-inflammatory and, anecdotally, the use of doxycycline and other tetracyclic antiobiotics for their anti-inflammatory effect has been useful.