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Psoriasis: Better treatment control with a new scanner

About 160 million people worldwide suffer from it psoriasis. In Germany, about two million people are affected. It is curable Skin Disease not yet. But chronic inflammatory disease is treatable. A new one might help Scanner. This is amazing Technique One managed better according to the study treatment or treatment.

A clinical study confirms the success of a new scanner to monitor psoriasis treatment. With the new technology, it is possible to look at affected skin more deeply than was possible with previous clinical methods. This makes it easier to assess the severity of the disease and how successful treatment is. The results of the study were published in the journal “Translational Medicine Sciences” Released.

The quality of life is severely impaired

Recently, as the German Helmholtz Zentrum Munich Center for Health and the Environment (GmbH) message He writes that about 160 million people, about 2% of the world’s population, suffer from psoriasis.

Chronic inflammatory skin disease causes red, scaly, itchy changes in the skin. Many patients feel that their quality of life is severely degraded.

There is no cure yet for psoriasis, but appropriate treatments can at least relieve symptoms. Careful control of treatment is extremely important to the well-being of sufferers. But this is difficult because the extent of the disease is not visible under the skin.

Technology potential confirmed

Now a clinical study using the new scanner developed by Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) shows better treatment control in 19 people with psoriasis.

The researchers specifically looked at how the medications worked under the skin and received much more detailed information than traditional examinations, which rely solely on dermatologists’ visual evaluation.

This is due to the particularly precise imaging technology the scanner relies on: Raster Scan Optoacoustic Mesoscopy, or RSOM for short.

According to the information, a beam of harmless light is directed at the affected skin, so that the scanner can “hear” the absorption of light in the tissues and detect the signs of the disease with great accuracy. The results are high-resolution images of the areas of skin examined.

According to the researchers, the study confirms the technology’s potential and raises hope for more precise control methods and better treatment options. The scanners can be used in clinics all over the world and are due for adoption by the end of 2022. (AD)