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Background: Vitiligo is the most common depigmentary disorder of the skin and hair, resulting from selective destruction of melanocytes. Melasma, a hyperpigmentary disorder, presents as irregular, brown, macular hypermelanosis. A small subset of vitiligo patients paradoxically also have melasma. Objective: To evaluate and compare the response to narrow-band UVB in a group of patients with vitiligo, and another group of patients with vitiligo and coexisting melasma (vitiligo-melasma). Methods: Patients in both groups were treated with narrow-band UVB and a comparison of the zonal repigmentation was made at 4, 8, and 12 weeks after the initiation of therapy. Results: At the end of 12 weeks, 86% of patients in the vitiligo-melasma group attained ≥75% pigmentation on the face, whereas this was achieved in only 12.5% of patients in the vitiligo group. Over the limbs, 73% of patients in the vitiligo-melasma group attained 75% or more pigmentation at the end of 12 weeks compared with only 9% in the vitiligo group. On the trunk, only 20% of vitiligo-melasma patients showed ≥75% pigmentation at 12 weeks compared with 63% of patients in the vitiligo group. Conclusion: Patients having both vitiligo and melasma have a significantly better prognosis for repigmentation on the face and limbs with narrow-band UVB compared with patients with vitiligo alone; the vitiligo-melasma patients achieve repigmentation much earlier and also attain a greater level of repigmentation. Unexpectedly, for truncal lesions, patients with vitiligo alone responded better than those with both conditions. Although the vitiligo-melasma group with truncal lesions started repigmenting earlier, the final pigmentation was more extensive in the vitiligo group.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 127-132 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | American Journal of Clinical Dermatology |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 07-03-2011 |
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Response to narrow-band UVB - Vitiligo-melasma versus vitiligo : A comparative study. / Sharma, Parikshit; Pai, Harsha S.; Pai, Ganesh S.; Kuruvila, Maria; Kolar, Reshma.
In: American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, Vol. 12, No. 2, 07.03.2011, p. 127-132.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Response to narrow-band UVB - Vitiligo-melasma versus vitiligo
T2 - A comparative study
AU - Sharma, Parikshit
AU - Pai, Harsha S.
AU - Pai, Ganesh S.
AU - Kuruvila, Maria
AU - Kolar, Reshma
PY - 2011/3/7
Y1 - 2011/3/7
N2 - Background: Vitiligo is the most common depigmentary disorder of the skin and hair, resulting from selective destruction of melanocytes. Melasma, a hyperpigmentary disorder, presents as irregular, brown, macular hypermelanosis. A small subset of vitiligo patients paradoxically also have melasma. Objective: To evaluate and compare the response to narrow-band UVB in a group of patients with vitiligo, and another group of patients with vitiligo and coexisting melasma (vitiligo-melasma). Methods: Patients in both groups were treated with narrow-band UVB and a comparison of the zonal repigmentation was made at 4, 8, and 12 weeks after the initiation of therapy. Results: At the end of 12 weeks, 86% of patients in the vitiligo-melasma group attained ≥75% pigmentation on the face, whereas this was achieved in only 12.5% of patients in the vitiligo group. Over the limbs, 73% of patients in the vitiligo-melasma group attained 75% or more pigmentation at the end of 12 weeks compared with only 9% in the vitiligo group. On the trunk, only 20% of vitiligo-melasma patients showed ≥75% pigmentation at 12 weeks compared with 63% of patients in the vitiligo group. Conclusion: Patients having both vitiligo and melasma have a significantly better prognosis for repigmentation on the face and limbs with narrow-band UVB compared with patients with vitiligo alone; the vitiligo-melasma patients achieve repigmentation much earlier and also attain a greater level of repigmentation. Unexpectedly, for truncal lesions, patients with vitiligo alone responded better than those with both conditions. Although the vitiligo-melasma group with truncal lesions started repigmenting earlier, the final pigmentation was more extensive in the vitiligo group.
AB - Background: Vitiligo is the most common depigmentary disorder of the skin and hair, resulting from selective destruction of melanocytes. Melasma, a hyperpigmentary disorder, presents as irregular, brown, macular hypermelanosis. A small subset of vitiligo patients paradoxically also have melasma. Objective: To evaluate and compare the response to narrow-band UVB in a group of patients with vitiligo, and another group of patients with vitiligo and coexisting melasma (vitiligo-melasma). Methods: Patients in both groups were treated with narrow-band UVB and a comparison of the zonal repigmentation was made at 4, 8, and 12 weeks after the initiation of therapy. Results: At the end of 12 weeks, 86% of patients in the vitiligo-melasma group attained ≥75% pigmentation on the face, whereas this was achieved in only 12.5% of patients in the vitiligo group. Over the limbs, 73% of patients in the vitiligo-melasma group attained 75% or more pigmentation at the end of 12 weeks compared with only 9% in the vitiligo group. On the trunk, only 20% of vitiligo-melasma patients showed ≥75% pigmentation at 12 weeks compared with 63% of patients in the vitiligo group. Conclusion: Patients having both vitiligo and melasma have a significantly better prognosis for repigmentation on the face and limbs with narrow-band UVB compared with patients with vitiligo alone; the vitiligo-melasma patients achieve repigmentation much earlier and also attain a greater level of repigmentation. Unexpectedly, for truncal lesions, patients with vitiligo alone responded better than those with both conditions. Although the vitiligo-melasma group with truncal lesions started repigmenting earlier, the final pigmentation was more extensive in the vitiligo group.
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JO - American Journal of Clinical Dermatology
JF - American Journal of Clinical Dermatology
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