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Question:
All the information on morphea treatment I have read about on the internet say it’s all in the test phase and nothing seems to work. This information all seems to be a few years old and am curious if anything new has come out? I read an article about UVA-1 treatment and it seemed promising – has there been any case studies done on this?
Response:
Here’s a study published this year on using low-dose methotrexate and prednisone: http://tinyurl.com/avru8 This is a review of articles about UVA1 and PUVA treatment for morphea and other scleroderma-like conditions: http://tinyurl.com/89d66 These caught my eye in the morphea article at eMedicine: * The use of low-dose UV-A phototherapy has produced marked clinical improvement of treated morphea lesions. PUVA bath photochemotherapy has also been reported to be helpful in patients with plaque-type or linear morphea, and PUVA is considered to be one of the best treatment options available. * Severe cases of morphea with elevated ANA and other autoantibody levels have been improved with the use of plasmapheresis. http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic272.htm I found these by searching "morphea uva1 puva" on Yahoo and "morphea" on Pubmed Medline. I’m sure there’s more! Amie – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -uts…@aol.com wrote: >All the information on morphea treatment I have read about on the >internet say it’s all in the test phase and nothing seems to work. >This information all seems to be a few years old and am curious if >anything new has come out? I read an article about UVA-1 treatment and >it seemed promising – has there been any case studies done on this?
no comment untill now