Abstract Introduction Vitiligo is an autoimmune skin disease represented by melanocytes destruction. Clinically, it evolves with spots that are lighter than normal color. Periodical evaluation of patients recommended, including thyroid function. Phototherapy its gold standard treatment, consisting in specific range ultraviolet B (UVB) light sections. Sleep may play immunological role, and shoul...

Jaundiced babies undergoing phototherapy often develop diarrhoea. The cause of it is still uncertain. Increasing evidence supports a role of a secretory mechanism for the diarrhoea. We therefore studied the effects of bile from congenitally jaundiced rats undergoing phototherapy and of unconjugated bilirubin on rat small intestine in vivo and in vitro. Results suggest that: (1) the bile from ho...

objective conjunctivitis is a common disease in neonates. several bacterial and viral infectious agents may cause it. tear circulation and blinking has protective effects from bacterial colonization in the conjuntival sac. reduced blinking increases the possibility of bacterial conjunctivitis. we studied the effect of eye patches on bacterial colonization of the conjunctival sac.  methods in 10...

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...