June 11th, 2007, by Digital Davo | PDT, clinical trials
The Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen is currently recruiting patients for a study comparing the “efficacy and adverse effect from long-pulsed dye laser versus long-pulsed dye laser-mediated photodynamic therapy for acne vulgaris and rosacea.” The study is titled Laser-Mediated Photodynamic Therapy of Acne Vulgaris and Rosacea When aminolevulinic acid (Levulan) is applied to the skin and it is activated by exposure to blue light or IPL, …
February 8th, 2007, by Digital Davo | PDT, red face
This study did not address rosacea, and PDT may not be suitable for all rosacea sufferers, so please do your research. Check out be careful with Levulan (aminolevulinic acid) for some group feedback. Topical photodynamic therapy for treatment of facial erythema with acnevulgaris, Eun Ju Hwang, MD, Modelo Clinic, Seoul, South Korea; Kyle Seo, MD, PhD, Modelo Clinic, Seoul, South Korea. Background: PDT involves …
September 19th, 2006, by Digital Davo | PDT
This paper was postulating that some of the benefits of PDT could be attributed to the change in skin flora (bacteria) as a result of the topical pre-treatment or the light irradiation used by this form of treatment. Their results show that the reduction in flora was not significant, so some other mechanism of benefit is at work. (See also: Lasers reduce `Substance P’ …
February 22nd, 2006, by Digital Davo | PDT
A recent Rosacea News item titled `be careful with Levulan (aminolevulinic acid)’ urged care with this new form of photodynamic therapy. Hot off the press are these 2 articles that offer some promise for the use of Photodynamic Therapy in treating rosacea. The warning is still worth considering given that this is a relatively new treatment. Note that the first paper is a study …
February 15th, 2006, by Digital Davo | PDT, laser therapy
Some good digging from Aurelia, this time on Levulan. Thanks for scouring the archives for us Aurelia. I know it takes quite a bit of effort to find and quote the most helpful posts.
Quote From: Levulan (was IPL resource page).
Hi Eric,Although there’s nothing about Levulan in the RSRP as yet, there is a lot about it in the RS archives.
When aminolevulinic acid (Levulan) …
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