A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TWO DIFFERENT LASERS IN TREATMENT OF FUNGAL NAIL INFECTIO
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: L608- Other nail disorders
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/04/024710
- Lead Sponsor
- COMMAND HOSPITA
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
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a)All consecutive patients over the age of 18 years of either gender reporting to the department of Dermatology, CHAF Bangalore with one or more toenail and/or fingernail fungal infections of the following types: distal subungual onychomycosis, proximal subungual onychomycosis, superficial white or black onychomycosis, mixed patterns or total dystrophic type onychomycosis.
b)Diagnosis of Onychomycosis confirmed on demonstration of fungal hyphae on direct microscopy or fungal culture.
c)Subjects should be willing and able to comply with all follow-up requirements
d)Not on any medication for past 06 months for Onychomycosis.
a)Cases where KOH mount for fungal hyphae and fungal culture are negative.
b)Patients who were on systemic or topical antifungals in the past three months.
c)Nail disorders due to psoriasis, chronic eczema, lichen planus, bacterial infections, subungual hematoma, and non-onychomycosis causes of nail dystrophy.
d)Pregnant and lactating women
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method TREATMENT OF NAIL FUNGAL INFECTION-l)Follow-up shall be performed at each visit at 4 weeks interval with assessment of clinical improvement using OSI score, photography and patient subjective assessment score. In addition to the above modalities, assessment will be done with mycological cultures and KOH mount after 16 weeks and 6 months from initiation of treatment. Analysis of the data will be carried out at 6 months after initiation of treatment .Timepoint: After 6weeks and 6 month of 1st sitting of laser treatment.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method REDUCTION IN QSI SCORETimepoint: 16 weeks and 6 months from initiation of treatment