There are a number of treatments available that can re-pigment vitiligo patches. Some people with vitiligo often ignore it as being just a cosmetic defect while others are extremely conscious about its treatment. Light and laser therapies are the main means of restoring loss of pigment.
PUVA (Psoralen Ultraviolet type A) therapy and narrow band UVB [...]
Vitiligo is unresponsive normally to the therapies and it is believed that it is an autoimmune disorder. Although limited success has been attained by using the photochemotherapy (PUVA) for vitiligo treatment but it requires a frequent extended course. This demonstrative study has been conducted by U.S. authors who examined the usage of narrowband UVB for [...]
Some success has been achieved by using the epidermal grafting for the treatment of stable vitiligo and peibaldism but there is a variation in the result in case of progressive vitiligo. 26 patients having stable vitiligo and 14 patients of progressive vitiligo have been examined in this study held in South Korea after an observation [...]
Vitiligo gives extreme resistant to any kind of treatment. PUVA is considered as the main therapy but it is expensive, time consuming and only fairly effective. For the treatment of small isolated areas suction blister epidermal grafts, punch grafts, melanocyte grafts and autologous cultured keratinocyte have been experimented but effectiveness vary in all methods.
19 patients [...]
For vitiligo and psoriasis treatment, phototherapy light bulbs of narrowband UVB which release wavelengths of 311 nm is equally effective as PUVA treatment, proved in a recent research. Light source of high power is being produced by 308-nm excimer laser (which is a recently developed treatment) is nearly close to the effective wavelength of 311-nm [...]
