Coupled blue and red light-emitting diodes therapy efficacy in patients with rosacea: two case reports

BACKGROUND: Rosacea is a common inflammatory skin condition affecting approximately 5% of the world population. Therapeutic approaches to rosacea are focused on symptom suppression by means of anti-inflammatory agents. More recently, photodynamic therapy, especially light-emitting diodes, has been i...

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Autores principales: Sorbellini, Elisabetta, De Padova, Maria Pia, Rinaldi, Fabio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31992343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-019-2339-6
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author Sorbellini, Elisabetta
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description BACKGROUND: Rosacea is a common inflammatory skin condition affecting approximately 5% of the world population. Therapeutic approaches to rosacea are focused on symptom suppression by means of anti-inflammatory agents. More recently, photodynamic therapy, especially light-emitting diodes, has been introduced as a valid alternative to conventional therapy. CASE PRESENTATION: In the present work, we reported the efficacy and safety of light-emitting diodes therapy combining blue (480 nm) and red (650 nm) light for the treatment of two patients with papulopustular rosacea: a 22-year-old Caucasian woman and a 68-year-old Caucasian man. CONCLUSIONS: This kind of treatment could represent an effective, safer, and well-tolerated approach for the treatment of such conditions.
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spelling pubmed-69882472020-01-31 Coupled blue and red light-emitting diodes therapy efficacy in patients with rosacea: two case reports Sorbellini, Elisabetta De Padova, Maria Pia Rinaldi, Fabio J Med Case Rep Case Report BACKGROUND: Rosacea is a common inflammatory skin condition affecting approximately 5% of the world population. Therapeutic approaches to rosacea are focused on symptom suppression by means of anti-inflammatory agents. More recently, photodynamic therapy, especially light-emitting diodes, has been introduced as a valid alternative to conventional therapy. CASE PRESENTATION: In the present work, we reported the efficacy and safety of light-emitting diodes therapy combining blue (480 nm) and red (650 nm) light for the treatment of two patients with papulopustular rosacea: a 22-year-old Caucasian woman and a 68-year-old Caucasian man. CONCLUSIONS: This kind of treatment could represent an effective, safer, and well-tolerated approach for the treatment of such conditions. BioMed Central 2020-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6988247/ /pubmed/31992343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-019-2339-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Coupled blue and red light-emitting diodes therapy efficacy in patients with rosacea: two case reports
title Coupled blue and red light-emitting diodes therapy efficacy in patients with rosacea: two case reports
title_full Coupled blue and red light-emitting diodes therapy efficacy in patients with rosacea: two case reports
title_fullStr Coupled blue and red light-emitting diodes therapy efficacy in patients with rosacea: two case reports
title_full_unstemmed Coupled blue and red light-emitting diodes therapy efficacy in patients with rosacea: two case reports
title_short Coupled blue and red light-emitting diodes therapy efficacy in patients with rosacea: two case reports
title_sort coupled blue and red light-emitting diodes therapy efficacy in patients with rosacea: two case reports
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988247/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31992343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-019-2339-6
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