background atopic dermatitis (ad) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease. phototherapy is considered as an effective treatment modality in severe cases. objectives in this study, we proposed to evaluate the efficacy of bath puva (psoralen plus ultraviolet a) in the treatment of severe and atopic dermatitis. patients and methods twenty-eight patients with severe atopic dermatitis were included i...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of phototherapy with a newly-developed 1450-nm diode laser in patients with mild to moderate acne. An open study was performed in acne patients who were treated up to five times with a two week interval. Acne lesions were reduced by 63%. Only one patient discontinued treatment due to vesicle formation as an adverse effect. Phototherapy u...

The efficacy of low-power lasers in tissue repair and pain control: a meta-analysis study. CONCLUSION: These findings mandate the conclusion that laser phototherapy is a highly effective therapeutic armamentarium for tissue repair and pain relief. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt =Abstract&list_uids=15345176&query_hl=10&itool=pubmed_DocSum A meta-analysi...

Background: Hyperbilirubinemia is one of the most important complications encountered in neonatal units. It has been proposed that phototherapy yields oxidative stress. Therefore, this study was undertaken to survey the levels of antioxidant and oxidative stress in the serum of neonates before and after phototherapy. Methods: This study was performed on thirty-five healthy, late preterm (>35 w...

Position changes are believed to increase the efficacy of phototherapy and this practice is routinely used in all neonatal departments in our country. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of routine turning on the total serum bilirubin (TSB) concentration versus only supine position. In a randomized clinical trial fifty healthy term jaundiced neonates who were admitted to the ...

We have compared the efficacy of local UVB phototherapy with topical (bath) photochemotherapy in 13 patients with bilateral chronic hand dermatitis. In each patient, one hand was treated with UVB phototherapy and the other hand with topical (bath) photochemotherapy. Both treatments moderately improved the chronic hand dermatitis after 6 weeks' treatment. We observed no significant differences i...

Background: Fenofibrate is used as an adjunct therapy to reduce bilirubin level and duration of phototherapy. This study was done determine the efficacy fenofibrate in treatment unconjugated neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.
 Materials & Method: Total 60 neonates were enrolled devided into two groups. In group A, a single dose oral (10mg/kg) given along with phototherapy, Group B only Blood...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effectiveness of intensive phototherapy in reducing the need for exchange transfusion and the duration of phototherapy. METHODS The prospective study with historical controls was conducted at Cairo University Paediatric Hospital, from February to July 2012, and comprised 360 newborns with indirect hyperbilirubinaemia. The 183 subjects were treated with Bilisphere 360 ...

The aim of treating hyperbilirubinemia is preventing the serum bilirubin to reach neurotoxic levels, which is done by phototherapy or blood transfusion. However, pharmacological treatments still remain vague. Therefore the effects of adding either clofibrate or phenobarbital on treatment outcomes was evaluated in icteric non-hemolitic newborns. Ninety neonates were divided in three groups. Two ...

OBJECTIVE The effect of phototherapy on tissue repair was determined by aggregating the literature and using statistical meta-analysis to analyze pertinent studies published between 2000 and 2007. BACKGROUND DATA Phototherapy has been used for more than 40 y; however, its efficacy on tissue repair remains contentious. METHOD Related original studies were gathered from every available source...