Phototherapy (Light Therapy)

01/01/2013 - "When combined with a systems biology approach, this potential biomarker may provide insight into which wavelengths of UV are the most effective in clearing psoriasis, allowing a more rational and potentially an individually tailored approach to optimising phototherapy for psoriasis."
03/01/2012 - "UVB is most commonly preferred as a first-line treatment for moderate to severe psoriasis in healthy adults, and preferences vary based on region, phototherapy availability, and prior treatment use."
05/01/2011 - "The purpose of this review is to provide some practical guidance to general dermatologists and residents on the specifics of using phototherapy, which, despite its decreasing use, remains one of our most safe and effective treatment strategies for psoriasis care. "
01/01/2010 - "Narrow-spectrum UVB phototherapy is considered highly effective in extensive psoriasis. "
01/01/2004 - "The most recent form of phototherapy, 308-nm excimer laser, holds promise for becoming a useful tool in the treatment of stable, localized psoriasis."

12/01/2014 - "Phototherapy is a second-line treatment modality for the most common dermatoses that is safe and effective. "
09/01/2002 - "The use of ultraviolet B light (UVB) has been proven to be highly effective for treatment of various inflammatory skin diseases, but UVB phototherapy is limited by its carcinogenic side effects. "
12/15/2002 - "A novel improved form of UV-B phototherapy, narrowband UV-B, has been proven to be very effective in T-cell mediated dermatoses. "
12/01/2007 - "Phototherapy with narrow-band UVB (NB-UVB), with a peak exclusively at 311 nm wavelength, has been found to be more effective in treating a variety of skin diseases than conventional broad-band UVB (BB-UVB). "
04/01/2014 - "Review of an established UK home phototherapy service 1998-2011: improving access to a cost-effective treatment for chronic skin disease."

01/01/2009 - "Bright visible-spectrum light therapy has proven effective in the treatment of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and recent basic research suggests that blue wavelengths approximately 470 nm account for that effectiveness. "
09/09/1996 - "Bright light therapy is an effective treatment for seasonal affective disorder, an uncommon condition marked by mild winter depression. "
01/01/1999 - "Light therapy with bright artificial light is especially beneficial in patients with a fall/winter pattern of depressive symptomatology that has been termed seasonal affective disorder. "
08/01/2001 - "Certain treatments may be more effective in specific subtypes; for example, light therapy is useful for seasonal affective disorder. "
02/01/2000 - "Recommendations for a light therapy--PREVALENCE OF SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER (SAD): Ca. 2% of the adult population in Europe; female to male ratio 4:1. Recurrent major depressive episodes in winter with full remission in summer. "

04/01/2008 - "Phototherapy remains the best treatment of vitiligo type I. In vitiligo type II and III, ethiopathogenic treatments may be efficient, alone or associated with phototherapy."
06/01/2007 - "For generalized vitiligo, phototherapy with UVB radiation is most effective with the fewest side effects; PUVA is the second best choice.Topical"
10/01/2010 - "These results suggest that even acral areas in vitiligo can be markedly improved by phototherapy if it has a recent onset."
06/01/2014 - "NB-UVB phototherapy was associated with a significant reduction in MDA levels and a significant increase in GSH-Px levels, compared with baseline, in patients with vitiligo. "
09/01/2003 - "Treatment with 308 nm MEL for vitiligo may be more effective in obtaining rapid repigmentation than phototherapy with NB UVB. "

01/01/2014 - "This study set out to ascertain maternal experience and satisfaction with a novel treatment of infants with significant hyperbilirubinemia using filtered sunlight phototherapy (FSPT) in a tropical setting with irregular access to effective conventional phototherapy. "
05/01/2007 - "Our results demonstrate that the efficacy of Super LED phototherapy for treating hyperbilirubinemia in premature infants was significantly better than halogen phototherapy."
02/01/2000 - "The efficacy of double phototherapy, in the form of conventional phototherapy with special blue light plus fiberoptic phototherapy, was compared with conventional phototherapy consisting of special blue lamps alone in a relatively larger series of term newborns with significant hyperbilirubinemia. "
02/01/1992 - "The latencies of peak V and interpeaks I-V and III-V in the brain-stem auditory evoked response of infants with hyperbilirubinemia before phototherapy were significantly greater than those in a control group of infants. "
02/01/1991 - "These findings suggest that high-dose IVGG may be useful in the treatment of hyperbilirubinemia due to isoimmune haemolytic disease resistant to phototherapy."