For Vitiligo therapy Narrowband UVB was more effective and safer than PUVA.
Thousands of years back phototherapy of plants and sunlight was utilized as a first treatment from the vitiligo that contains natural psoralens and even today it is well used as a first treatment given to the patient. The double blind and randomized trial on [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Vitiligo can be devastating psychologically and in all ages it can be occurred. Currently there are two foundations of therapies that are phototherapy and topical steroids in combination or alone. These types of treatments are limited by efficiency data and lack of safety and by the possible side effects as well.
Tacrolimus treatment has been reviewed [...]
Two third of the vitiligo effected children get improvement up to 75% or even better who get treatments with pseudocatalase PC-KUS. Epidermal cells which are the main cause of vitiligo may be damaged by hydrogen peroxide – medicated lipid peroxidation. In refined keratinocytes and melanocytes, catalase can be effective to prevent from vacuolization which is [...]
This review will explain you the different types of vitiligo disease and will discuss the best efforts towards its treatment.
The authors of this article try to explain the history, subtypes and treatment of this common and blemishing disease. Vitiligo has its presence worldwide and percentage of its presence is 0.5%. Half of the patients come [...]
In a study came into view on the March 22 New England Journal of Medicine, scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) have exposed a link between a precise gene and the skin condition vitiligo, as well as a possible host of autoimmune diseases.
Vitiligo [...]





