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From: utseay on 18 Aug 2005 13:49
All the information on morphea treatment I have read about on the
internet say it's all in the test phase and nothing seems to work.
This information all seems to be a few years old and am curious if
anything new has come out? I read an article about UVA-1 treatment and
it seemed promising - has there been any case studies done on this?

From: Amelia Yaussy on 19 Aug 2005 08:58
Here's a study published this year on using low-dose methotrexate and
prednisone:
http://tinyurl.com/avru8

This is a review of articles about UVA1 and PUVA treatment for morphea
and other scleroderma-like conditions:
http://tinyurl.com/89d66

These caught my eye in the morphea article at eMedicine:

* The use of low-dose UV-A phototherapy has produced marked clinical
improvement of treated morphea lesions. PUVA bath
photochemotherapy has also been reported to be helpful in patients
with plaque-type or linear morphea, and PUVA is considered to be
one of the best treatment options available.

* Severe cases of morphea with elevated ANA and other autoantibody
levels have been improved with the use of plasmapheresis.

http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic272.htm

I found these by searching "morphea uva1 puva" on Yahoo and "morphea" on
Pubmed Medline. I'm sure there's more!

Amie

utseay(a)aol.com wrote:

>All the information on morphea treatment I have read about on the
>internet say it's all in the test phase and nothing seems to work.
>This information all seems to be a few years old and am curious if
>anything new has come out? I read an article about UVA-1 treatment and
>it seemed promising - has there been any case studies done on this?
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