Photoaging under recreational sunbeds.

Background: Artificial sources of restricted light wavelength, particularly tanning beds, are progressively gaining importance in photoaging.

Objective: To assess the kinetics and the long-term evolution of skin pigmentation and tensile functions in sunbed worshippers over a period of 8 years.

Methods: Photoaging was explored in women who were both sunshine and sunbed worshippers.

Intense pulsed-light therapy for proliferative haemangiomas of infancy.

Infantile haemangioma therapy has long been a wait-and-see policy. Since recent development of laser and light therapy, pulsed dye laser has been successfully used for treating superficial haemangiomas. Few studies have been published about treatment with intense pulsed light (IPL) to assess the risk/benefit of IPL in the treatment of infantile haemangiomas during their early proliferative phase.

Analytic quantification of the bleaching effect of a 4-hydroxyanisole-tretinoin combination on actinic lentigines.

Background: Solar lentigines represent a common feature of photoaging, particularly on the back of the hands. Bleaching agents are usually proposed to lighten the shade of the lesions.

Methods: The study was randomized and designed to assess the effect of a bleaching solution containing 2% mequinol (4-hydroxyanisole, 4HA) and 0.

A pilot study on seborrheic dermatitis using pramiconazole as a potent oral anti-Malassezia agent.

Background: Seborrheic dermatitis is considered to be a Malassezia-driven disease. Little objective information is available so far from biometrological quantitative assessments of this skin condition. Pramiconazole is a novel triazole with potent in vitro antifungal activity, especially against Malassezia spp.

Blood vessel changes during pregnancy: a review.

The profound endocrine upheaval of pregnancy is frequently associated with changes in the function and structure of the blood and lymph microvasculature of the skin and mucosae. Palmar erythema is frequent but rarely severe and is associated with burning sensations. Spider telangiectasias develop in the majority of pregnant White women but are less often identified in women with darker skin.

Deciphering the impaired cytokine cascades in chronic leg ulcers (review).

Chronic leg ulcers are typically wounds that do not heal at a normal rate. Impaired healing appears to be due to primary microvascular changes and it is aggravated by ongoing bacteria-driven vasculitis. The various cytokines identified in experimental wounds are also present in leg ulcers.