《Laser Therapy In Treatment Of Onychomycosis》.pdfVIP

Journal of the Laser and Health Academy Vol. 2010, No.1; Novel Laser Therapy in Treatment of Onychomycosis Jasmina Kozarev,1 Zdenko Vižintin2 1Dr.Kozarev Dermatology Laser Clinic., Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia 2Fotona d.d., Ljubljana, Slovenia ABSTRACT include dermatophytes (fungi that invade only dead A clinical study was performed in which 72 tissues of the skin, nails, or hair), nondermatophyte patients with 194 nails affected by onychomycosis moulds, and rarely, yeasts of the Candida species [4]. were treated with long pulse Nd:YAG laser light The dermatophytes Trichophyton rubrum and (Dualis SP, Fotona, Slovenia) at a single clinical site Trichophyton mentagrophytes are the most common (Dr. Kozarev’s Dermatology and Laser Clinic) over a causative pathogens of onychomycosis, with T. period of 18 months. Mycotic cultures were taken rubrum responsible for approximately 90 percent of all from all affected nails and various fungal infections cases [1,2]. The overall prevalence of onychomycosis were positively diagnosed in all 72 patients. Laser ranges from 2 to 14 percent. The risk of infection treatment consisted of four sessions with one week increases with age: 15-20% of persons between the interval, during which all infected nails