ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Infected Leg Ulcers-A Pilot Study.
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- Bridging cancer therapies: the role of magnetic nanoparticles in combination cancer therapy.Discover nano · 2026Review
- Features of the wound healing process in mice during photodynamic therapy with fotoditazin and methylene blue in the presence of amphiphilic polymers and sodium alginate.Frontiers in chemistry · 2026Article
- Antimicrobial Strategies for Chronic Cutaneous Ulcers: From Preclinical Nanotechnology to Clinical Practice.International journal of nanomedicine · 2026Review
- Light-based therapy of infected wounds: a review of dose considerations for photodynamic microbial inactivation and photobiomodulation.Journal of biomedical optics · 2025Review
- Screening Antibacterial Photodynamic Effect of Monascus Red Yeast Rice (Hong-Qu) and Mycelium Extracts.Current microbiology · 2024Article
- On the Possibility of Using 5-Aminolevulinic Acid in the Light-Induced Destruction of Microorganisms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Photodynamic Therapy for Treatment of Disease in Children-A Review of the Literature.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- The evolution of clinical guidelines for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy of skin.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2022Review
- The photosensitizer-based therapies enhance the repairing of skin wounds.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
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Abstract
Chronic and infected leg ulcers (LUs) are painful, debilitating, resistant to antibiotics, and immensely reduce a patient's quality of life. The purpose of our study was to demonstrate the efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT) for the treatment of infected chronic LUs. Patients were randomized into two experimental groups: the first group received 5-aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy (ALA-PDT) (10 patients), and the second group of 10 patients received local octenidine dihydrochloride (Octenilin gel) exposed to a placebo light source with an inserted filter that mimiced red light. In the PDT group, we used 20% ALA topically applied for 4 hrs and irradiation from a Diomed laser source with a wavelength of 630 nm at a fluency of 80 J/cm
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