Les hormones sont-elles impliquées dans la pathogenèse du mélasma (chloasma, masque de grossesse) ? (Pour les professionnels)

• Hormones only provide a partial explanation to the pathogenesis of melasma (chloasma, mask of pregnancy)
• In a study involving 400 pregnant women:

1. 16% of them had melasma even though it was not related to the stage of pregnancy
2. Also the pigmentation was located more often on the arms which is an atypical distribution for melasma.

Contributors:

Dr Christophe HSU – dermatologist. Geneva, Switzerland

Source of Information: 2012 (09) – Sachdev M. .21st Annual Congress of the EADV (European Academy of Dermatology and Venerology) – Prague (Praha), Czech Republic (česká republika)