INTRODUCTION Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) treatment is challenging with a high recurrence rate and still lacks a clear treatment frame. Therefore research on new, more efficient and long lasting effect treatment modalities is necessary. This study looked at the effects of intravenous laser therapy (IVL) and percutaneous low level laser (PLLL) in the management of shoulder MPS. METHODS In th...

PURPOSE The incidental detection of small renal masses is increasing. However, not all require aggressive treatments as up to 20% are benign and the majority of malignant tumors harbor indolent features. Improved preoperative diagnostics are needed to differentiate tumors requiring aggressive treatment from those more suitable for surveillance. We evaluated and compared confocal laser endomicro...

introduction: low-level laser therapy (lllt) is shown effective in healing diabetic foot ulcer when combined with conventional therapy. since; diabetes mellitus is a leading cause of impaired wound healing. the aim of this study is to determine the effect of different diabetic control’s methods on the healing response of diabetic foot ulcer in those patients treated with low level laser therapy...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Cutaneous brown discolorations in the area of injection can be a cosmetically bothersome side effect from a parenteral iron treatment, and have not responded to an effective therapy until now. STUDY DESIGN/PATIENTS AND METHODS We report retrospectively on five patients who were treated with the Q-switched ruby and/or Nd:YAG laser for circumscripted siderosis after int...

The method of intravenous laser blood irradiation was first introduced into therapy by the Soviet scientists E.N.Meschalkin and V.S.Sergiewski in 1981 [32]. Originally this method was developed for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Improvement of rheologic properties of the blood as well as improvement of microcirculation and reduction of the area of infarction had been proved. Further ...

Intravenous laser blood irradiation was first introduced into therapy by the Soviet scientists EN.Meschalkin and VS.Sergiewski in 1981. Originally this method was developed for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Improvement of rheologic properties of the blood as well as improvement of microcirculation and reduction of the area of infarction has been proved. Further, reduction of dysrhyt...

Various treatment of papillomatosis in dogs have been described: oral azithromycin [33], cimetidine [6], etretinate [22] and human recombinant interferon-α 2a [27], intramuscular Propionibacterium acnes [21], intravenous taurolidine [3], subcutaneous live papillomavirus vaccine [4], topical applications of 5-fluorouracil or imiquimod and surgical excision, crushing laser surgery or cryosurgical...