Omar Suljagić: Treatment of Vascular Lesions with Long Pulse KTP
Laser treatment of vascular lesions is well established and very popular in aesthetic and clinical medicine. There are several laser sources used to treat vascular lesions with wavelengths which are well absorbed in hemoglobin (oxyhemoglobin or deoxyhemoglobin), among which 532 nm long-pulse KTP plays an important role being that it is excellently absorbed in both types of hemoglobin and is one of the most popular wavelengths for reddish superficial vascular lesions like facial telangiectasias, port wine stains and other vascular malformations.
Recently we started to use the StarWalker laser system, which has (among many modalities) also the LP KPT feature called VERDE. In this presentation we shall report about our experiences with VERDE modality in treatments of facial vascular lesions. In some of the patients we used an additional accessory – a handpiece spacer with a sapphire compression window, which functions to flatten the skin and the vascular lesion, making it thus thinner and better exposed to laser irradiation. Cases treated with VERDE with and without use of the compression window will be described and discussed.
