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Diode laser effective for trichiasis in study
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Treatment with an 810-nm diode laser significantly reduced the number of trichiatic eyelashes at 3 months' follow-up in a prospective study.
Randal T. H. Pham, MD, MS, FACS, and colleagues evaluated the use of the laser in 153 eyelids of 87 patients with darkly pigmented trichiatic eyelashes. Their results were published in the November/December issue of Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery.
The researchers found that immediately after treatment the average number of trichiatic eyelashes per patient was reduced from 3.5 to 0.4. Among 41 patients followed for a average of 3 months after treatment, the mean number of trichiatic eyelashes per patient was reduced from 3.58 to 0.73, according to the study authors.
The differences were statistically significant regardless of gender, age or location of the eyelashes, the authors said.