Fractional CO2-assisted photodynamic therapy improves the clinical outcome and patient's satisfaction in toenail onychomycosis treatment: an intra-patient comparative single-center study.

Conclusion: Both treatments effectively reduced the severity of onychomycosis with a high degree of safety and tolerability. Fractional CO2-assisted PDT enhanced the clinical outcome via improving the nail appearance and patient's satisfaction.Key Message:Photodynamic therapy has a good success rate in clearing onychomycosis. Addition of fractional CO2 to photodynamic therapy improves the nail appearance and induces better satisfaction to treatment. PMID: 32419540 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Dermatological Treatment - Category: Dermatology Tags: J Dermatolog Treat Source Type: research