Current therapies rarely support in vitiligo repigmentation. According to the previous report, some of the vitiligo patients were having low levels of vitamin B12 and folic acid and they also responded slowly to the therapy of aggressive replacement. By getting encouragement by this report, an uncontrolled and non blinded study of vitamin B12 and oral [...]
Punch implants, cultured melanocyte implants, thin implants of split thickness skin and grafts of cultured epidermal have also included in surgical treatment of skin disorder disease (vitiligo). Although the results are variable but have been encouraging and improvement through cosmetics has always been less ideal.
This experiment was done by Italian investigators who used the biopsies [...]
Although most of the therapies can not manage vitiligo, but topical corticosteroids is being considered more and more as first line therapy. However due to its low efficiency and side effects of steroids, researchers are trying to search for some substitute therapies. In Mexico investigators experimented on 20 children having vitiligo and compared a 0.1% [...]
With narrowband UVB and PUVA, vitiligo is very traditional and challenging treatment because after several sessions it normally achieves repigmentaion of to 50% to 60%. This demonstrative study was experimented on 32 patients that had 55 depigmented spots in total which were treated by 308-nm excimer laser irradiation. Treatment doses started from one minimal erythema [...]
Exact and clear modest benefits of both tacrolimus ointment and excimer laser have been shown for repigmentation of vitiligo. Now the question is whether each treatment would work as alone or with combination the result would be better. 14 patients having equal vitiligo have been selected for this randomized study and given a treatment of [...]
