Rapid remission of severe pruritus from angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia by pulsed dye laser therapy

1365-2230

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

A 48-year-old Japanese woman with angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) was successfully treated with a flashlamp pulsed dye laser (585 nm, 450 µs pulse duration). The lesion was severely pruritic and had been enlarging slowly for 2 years but was resistant to conventional therapies, including topical, intralesional, and systemic corticosteroid, and cryotherapy. The severe pruritus immediately improved after the first treatment using the pulsed dye laser. The erythema and papules gradually improved without scarring and this was followed by further five treatments over approximately a 4-month interval. No clinical recurrences have been observed 1 year after completion of the treatment. We think that pulsed dye laser therapy is an effective treatment for ALHE in both Japanese as well as Caucasian patients. Pulsed dye laser therapy is also helpful in reducing the pruritus in ALHE patients.

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