Objective and Long-Term Evaluation of the Efficacy and Safety of a 1064-nm Picosecond Laser With Fractionated Microlens Array for the Treatment of Atrophic Acne Scar in Asians.

Background And Objective: Fractional 1064-nm picosecond-domain laser has recently been utilized for the treatment of atrophic acne scars and showed promising results. However, data on the safety and efficacy of this procedure in dark-skinned patients are limited. This prospective, self-controlled study was conducted to objectively evaluate the safety and efficacy of a 1064-nm picosecond laser coupled with a microlens array (MLA) for the treatment of atrophic acne scars on Asian skin.

Cutaneous eruption in COVID-19-infected patients in Thailand: An observational descriptive study.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in Thailand in January 2020. Thailand was the first to report a confirmed case outside China. Cutaneous eruption in COVID-19 has been reported since the disease became pandemic but limited in tropical countries such as Thailand.

Predictors of serological cure after treatment in patients with early syphilis: A retrospective observational study in Thailand.

Background: Some patients with early syphilis who receive appropriate treatment do not reach a serological cure and have a persistent titer which does not meet the criteria for treatment failure (serofast state).

Aims: This retrospective study aimed to determine the prevalence of serological cure and the serofast state as well as the factors associated with serological cure after treatment of patients with early syphilis.

Methods: A serological cure was defined as occurring when there was a ≥4-fold decrease in nontreponemal titer, whereas patients with a ≥4-fold increase were considered as having either a treatment failure or reinfection.

The effect of pre-operative topical anaesthetic cream on the ablative width and coagulative depth of ablative fractional resurfacing laser.

Topical anaesthetic cream (TAC) is commonly used as a pre-treatment of ablative fractional resurfacing (AFR) laser. Most of anaesthetic cream contains distilled water as major component. Therefore, pre-operative TAC may interfere the photothermal reaction in the skin treated with fractional carbon-dioxide (FCO) laser and fractional erbium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet (FEr:YAG) laser.

Skin manifestation of Thai HIV infected patients in HAART era.

Background: Skin and mucocutaneous disease changed its spectrum after Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) had been introduced. Previous publication showed opportunistic infections (OIs) related skin disease was a major presentation in pre-HAART era, whereas non-infected skin disease became emerging in HAART era. There is no report describing skin disease in HAART era among Thai HIV-infected patients.