Psoralens are medicines made from plants. They make your skin more sensitive to light. Methoxsalen is the most common psoralen drug. Today, doctors use psoralens with sunlamps or light booths that ...

PUVA is a combination treatment which consists of psoralen taken orally or applied to the skin followed by exposure of the skin to long wave ultraviolet A (UVA) radiation. It is used for the treatment ...

In Europe, narrowband UVB (NB-UVB) has been established as the treatment of first choice in the management of moderate-to-severe psoriasis and other chronic inflammatory skin diseases. Although it has ...

Q: Which doctors prescribe PUVA therapy? A: PUVA treatment is usually prescribed by skin specialists. A: Psoriasis is a common skin disease that results in the formation of thick plaques on the skin.

Phototherapy refers to when light is used as a therapy to treat a medical condition. For thousands of years, sunlight has been known to be beneficial as a treatment for certain skin disorders. Now, ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette that includes a therapeutic recommendation. A discussion of the clinical problem and the mechanism of benefit of this form of therapy follows. Major ...

We describe four pediatric transplant patients successfully treated with PUVA therapy after failure of standard immunosuppressive therapies: we used an innovative procedure where 8-MOP is diluted in a ...

Patients with psoriasis exhibited superior efficacy outcomes when treated with ultraviolet (UV)-based phototherapy plus other adjuvant therapies vs UV monotherapy, with similar safety profiles shown ...

Phototherapy is primarily used to treat skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema. Over the course of many sessions, you’re exposed to safe, artificial UV light. Phototherapy is a treatment that ...

William Truswell, MD, FACS, operates his own cosmetic and reconstructive facial surgery practice. Dr. Truswell was the first in his area in Western Massachusetts to have an accredited private office ...

To further define the role of IFN in combination with PUVA we conducted this prospective, randomized, multicentre clinical trial, in cooperation with 26 departments of dermatology in Germany and ...

Physical chemists have clarified which chemical reactions take place during PUVA therapy. The therapy involves light-induced damage to the DNA of diseased cells. The term 'PUVA' stands for 'psoralen' ...