Intense Pulsed Light Therapy for Acne-induced Post-inflammatory Erythema.

Background: Intense pulsed light (IPL) is a comparatively new system of practice in treating acne-induced post inflammatory erythema (PIE) which is a difficult condition to treat, and variations exist in the results from published studies with insufficient or limited scientific evidence of IPL on Indian skin.

Aim: To study the efficacy of IPL in the treatment of acne-induced PIE and to document adverse effects of the procedure.

Settings And Design: A hospital-based retrospective observational study on 33 patients with acne-induced PIE who completed treatment with IPL during the time period of July 2015 to June 2017.