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Vitiligo Management: What's New?

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Dr Davinder Parsad, Chandigarh    22 January 2019

  • There are not many effective therapies available.
  • Effective treatment: Combination modalities.
  • Benchmark in medical and surgical treatment: Narrow-band ultraviolet B (NB-UVB), noncultured epidermal cell suspension (NCECS).
  • NCECS: Changed vitiligo surgery horizon–

o  Safe and effective modality

o  Can treat larger area

o  Color match is excellent

o  Difficult to treat area can be treated easily.

  • Ideal treatment: Complete repigmentation, absolute stability.
  • Minocycline, a clinically well-tolerated, safe antibiotic may be used to prevent melanocyte loss in the early stage of vitiligo.

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