The term 'PUVA' stands for 'psoralen' and 'UV-A radiation'. Psoralens are natural plant-based compounds that can be extracted from umbelliferous plants such as giant hogweeds. Plant extracts ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The term 'PUVA' stands for 'psoralen' and 'UV-A radiation'. Psoralens are natural plant-based compounds that can be extracted from umbelliferous plants such as giant hogweeds. Plant extracts ...

Phase I trial of temsirolimus and lenalidomide in pts with rel/ref lymphomas. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component ...

Oral manifestations of chronic GVHD are common, affecting 80% of >100 day survivors of BMT who develop cGVHD. Mucosal erythema forming a telangiectatic pattern, mucosal atrophy with loss of ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Based on the available literature, the American Academy of Dermatology and the National Psoriasis Foundation ...

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' ...