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Three-step irradiance schedule versus two-step irradiance schedule for pain control during topical 5-aminolevulinic acid-photodynamic therapy of facial acne in Chinese patients: A prospective randomized comparative study.
Lasers in Surgery and Medicine 2022 Februrary
BACKGROUND: A two-step irradiance schedule has been found to be useful for pain control during photodynamic therapy (PDT) on nonmelanotic skin cancer and condyloma acuminatum.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the efficacy of a new three-step irradiance schedule derived from the psychological "peak-end rule" and two-step irradiance schedule in relieving pain during 5-aminolevulinic acid PDT (ALA-PDT) on acne.
METHODS: A total of 90 moderate to severe acne patients were enrolled in our study and randomly divided into two groups with a ratio of 1:1. They were treated by a light-emitting diode light source of 633 ± 10 nm after being incubated with 5% ALA for an hour using a two-step or three-step irradiance schedule, respectively. The total irradiance intensity was 84 J/cm2 of each session and the treatment interval was 2 weeks. Pain was recorded 30 min after each PDT using a visual analog scale (VAS). Follow-up was done at baseline and 2 weeks after each treatment. The numbers of lesions were counted after the third treatment through the pictures taken before and all the side effects were recorded at each follow-up visit.
RESULTS: Eighty-seven subjects completed the total three treatments (44 cases in Group A and 43 cases in Group B). The average VAS of Group B (1.61 ± 0.67) was significantly lower than that of Group A (3.14 ± 0.67), with a difference of 1.52 ± 0.08 (p < 0.0001) between them. Both groups received a similar effective rate after the total three sessions (88.64% vs. 88.37%, p > 0.05).
CONCLUSIONS: The new three-step irradiance method could relieve pain during ALA-PDT more significantly than the two-step schedule with a similar effective rate.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the efficacy of a new three-step irradiance schedule derived from the psychological "peak-end rule" and two-step irradiance schedule in relieving pain during 5-aminolevulinic acid PDT (ALA-PDT) on acne.
METHODS: A total of 90 moderate to severe acne patients were enrolled in our study and randomly divided into two groups with a ratio of 1:1. They were treated by a light-emitting diode light source of 633 ± 10 nm after being incubated with 5% ALA for an hour using a two-step or three-step irradiance schedule, respectively. The total irradiance intensity was 84 J/cm2 of each session and the treatment interval was 2 weeks. Pain was recorded 30 min after each PDT using a visual analog scale (VAS). Follow-up was done at baseline and 2 weeks after each treatment. The numbers of lesions were counted after the third treatment through the pictures taken before and all the side effects were recorded at each follow-up visit.
RESULTS: Eighty-seven subjects completed the total three treatments (44 cases in Group A and 43 cases in Group B). The average VAS of Group B (1.61 ± 0.67) was significantly lower than that of Group A (3.14 ± 0.67), with a difference of 1.52 ± 0.08 (p < 0.0001) between them. Both groups received a similar effective rate after the total three sessions (88.64% vs. 88.37%, p > 0.05).
CONCLUSIONS: The new three-step irradiance method could relieve pain during ALA-PDT more significantly than the two-step schedule with a similar effective rate.
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