DrTBarghouthi

Yes I believe this is worth looking at.

Yes. The one month is due next week. We will do 1-2 month follow ups most likely.

I will update following the one month follow up which is sometime next week. 🙏🏻

No complaints or side effects with all the patients who had it injected.

Hi guys, Just to clarify a couple of things to some respected members of this group: 1. The Full FUE patient’s wish was to remain anonymous. He shares videos and photos with me and we both are pleased with how his donor looks. Nonetheless, these are photos and videos shared by him and have no scientific basis that I can use as validation or proof. At this stage, we want to provide as much objective evidence as possible. Sharing videos and photos of the full FUE (even if patient allows) based on patient photos isn’t scientific and could be seen as feeding the hype for monetary reasons and to encourage more patients to do it. He could simply be having great donor healing with or without Verteporfin. 2. Furthermore, as we are trying to gain more momentum and doctor involvement, I thought that a more detailed trial using better photography and site marking would give us a more scientific approach than the first trial. It also allowed me to increase the doses used without having to cover large areas. 3. My current intention is to get scientific trials to go ahead and advance. This takes time and takes on a scientific approach rather than just feeding the hype. If the intention behind this was to raise money only, then the way I’m approaching this would be completely different. In our industry, we make money by attracting patients. I’m currently trying to attract Doctors.

Hi guys. Many thanks for the positive feedback and messages. I will publish some photos of the follow up . The patient came today for his 10 days followup. Thankfully everything was good in terms of no adverse effects or allergic reactions reported. I’ll publish some photos soon. I will also like to reassure you that I will hopefully proceed with further trials as seen necessary and looking forward to collaboration with other Doctors mentioned.

Yes. I aimed to make the area as small as possible in order to be able to go back to it. I extracted 7-8 follicles in each spot. I will provide the other details of density etc that I have. I technically aimed to keep the spot very small and heavily extracted in order to be able to see any changes with better clarity.

Areas marked 35: 0.4 mg Verteporfin Areas marked 36: 0.6 mg Verteporfin Areas marked 37: 0.8 mg Verteporfin Areas marked 38: 1 mg Verteporfin Hi guys, Just wanted to share some photos of the latest trial. We have marked the areas injected both using a spot measure and also Scalp Micropigmentation. 7-8 follicles were removed from each marked area within the actual boundaries of the SMP. The removed grafts were all inspected and there were no transections seen. 0.4 mg Verteporfin (Before and after injection immediately) 0.6 mg Verteporfin (Before and after injection immediately) 0.8 mg Verteporfin (Before and after injection immediately) 1 mg Verteporfin (Before and after injection immediately)

The entire area is a control (apart from these 4 tested spots).

I think we will follow up closely to see how the process is evolving in the donor. It could be 3 or 4 months for preliminary effects to show.

What we essentially did is try to get a very close look at the a small spot of extracted grafts and be able to confidently go back to the same exact spot. Once we defined the exact spots we wanted, I extracted a set number of grafts from it. The before and after photos were taken, even measuring the diameter of the extraction sites. All extracted grafts were checked and photographed under the microscope to check for transection- luckily none were transected. We then injected Verteporfin in several doses and took immediate after photos. I will do a serial follow up of all these areas. In order to go back to the extracted zones, we have both a marked spot using tricholab’s spot market and also SMP around the entire area of extraction to border them out from the rest of the extractions.

Sorry for the confusion. I meant the mid part of the donor area scalp.

Hi guys, Apologies for the silence. We just finished an FUE case and injected 4 different doses of Verteporfin in specific areas of the mid scalp in order to be able to go back to the exact spots. We used SMP around the areas extracted but also measured precisely the location of each of the spots. The dosages used were: 0.4 mg, 0.6, 0.8 and 1 mg. Photos were taken using the Tricholab system. Will update and share shortly. Happy to hear about all the updates from the community and @Melvin- Admin

Hi guys, I do understand the frustration of the ongoing delays and I just want to reassure you that such delays were beyond anyone’s control. We did have multiple issues with suitable volunteers in terms of their availability and follow up potential, as well as the ongoing issue of making sure that we have a reliable and constant supply of the medication. In addition to that, it did take us some time to arrange and purchase any missing equipment that we need for a more objective study. It is important at this stage to carry out decent trials - for purposes of being objective and as scientific as possible. Having said that, there has been steady progress taking place in the background. We do have two volunteers. One Volunteer will have a full FUE with Verteforfin, while the other one will have Verteporfin injected in the bald areas of his scalp to see if there could be any potential improvement or growth. We have also managed to engage with a suitable supplier that can provide us with Verteporfin. I am placing a test order with them in these coming days to make sure their process is smooth. We have also received the photography device we need for research. I have booked two dates for these two trials- but I will refrain from mentioning the exact dates so as not to cause any further disappointment for now. Finally, I have seen some nice recovery photos from our FUE patient who had his donor fully injected with Verteporfin after 2-3 months ago, and his donor is looking good. I will check with him if he wishes for his photos to be shared.

Hi guys. I totally understand and I will update you with details by the end of this week- We are going ahead and nothing changed in terms of that.