2023年8月16日 · Photodynamic therapy (PDT) combines light energy with drugs called photosensitizers to treat a variety of skin conditions. Dermatologists most frequently use photodynamic therapy to treat actinic keratosis (AK), a precancerous skin condition that presents as rough, scaly patches.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment that uses special drugs, sometimes called photosensitizing agents, along with light to kill cancer cells. The drugs only work after they have been activated or “turned on” by certain kinds of light. PDT may also be called photoradiation therapy, phototherapy, or photochemotherapy.

PDT using Levulan and a proprietary blue light is currently FDA-approved for the treatment of early skin precancers called actinic keratoses (rough scaly spots generally on sun-exposed skin). PDT is also known as "ALA/PDT treatment" or "Super Blue Light."

UCSF dermatologic surgeons specialize in an advanced light-based treatment called photodynamic therapy, or PDT. PDT is used to treat rough, scaly and dry growths on the face and scalp called actinic keratoses (AKs). These lesions are caused by sun damage and can become cancerous if left untreated.

2015年8月4日 · Photodynamic therapy, or PDT, is a procedure in which levulan or metvix, a photosensitizer, is applied to the skin and incubates for a period of time (usually 1 to 3 hours). The photosensitizer is then activated by a light source, such as …

PDT has been approved for the treatment of mild to moderate AKs of the face and scalp, and uses a topical photosensitizer, either methyl aminolevulinate (MAL), or its ester, aminiolevulinic acid HCL (ALA), that is activated by blue or red light.

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment used mainly for superficial types of skin cancer. PDT is effective in treating actinic keratoses, in situ squamous cell carcinoma (Bowen disease), and superficial basal cell carcinomas. It may also be used for treatment of small, thin, low-risk nodular basal cell carcinomas outside of the head and neck ...

Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is a special medical treatment that uses a photosensitizing drug and a light source to activate the applied drug. This treatment is offered at The Skin Center at Laguna wher over 500 patients have been successfully treated since 2004.

Methyl aminolevulinate (MAL) is a topical photosensitising agent that is used in photodynamic therapy (PDT). It is available as a 16% strength cream in a 2g tube. The trade name is Metvix™. How does methyl aminolevulinate PDT work? When applied to the skin, methyl aminolevulinate is selectively absorbed into cancer cells.

In PDT (Photodynamic Therapy) a special factor (gel) is used that sensitizes the skin to the effects of light. After applying a certain length of light for a certain time, repair processes and regulation of the inflammatory process in the skin are activated. The PDT method provides broad therapeutic possibilities in medicine.