Applications: Vascular Lesions

Some vascular lesions are visible at birth, while others are acquired as a person ages. Chances are, either type can be treated using light.

In accordance with the principle of selective photothermolysis, blood vessels in these lesions can be selectively heated and destroyed without damaging surrounding, healthy tissue. In the mid 1980's physicians began using light to treat port wine stains. Many recipients considered it a miracle of modern medicine.

Twenty years later, in the form of Harmony™, the technology has advanced significantly, and is now capable of clearing or improving nearly any vascular lesion, including:
 

• Port wine stains.
• Hemangiomas.
• Facial, truncal and leg telangiectasias.
• Rosacea, erythema of rosacea.
• Angiomas and spider angiomas.
• Poikiloderma of Civatte.
• Leg veins and other venous malformations.

Why Harmony™ is a good choice ?

Harmony's unique combination of AFT and Nd:YAG treatment heads provide a powerful choice of wavelengths, pulse widths and energies to eliminate or improve the widest range of vascular lesions treatable with a single unit.
 

• Use on all skin types (Fitzpatrick I-VI), including tanned skin.
• More rapidly treat multiple or larger lesions, compared with other technologies.
• Easy to use, but provides enough flexibility to choose the parameters that are best for each patient's condition.

Harmony™ Treatment: AFT 540 VP Module after 6 Tx. 16-18 J/cm2 at 10 msec.

Photos Courtesy: Guilherme Olsen de Almeida, M.D. Hospital Sirio-Libanes, Sao Paulo, Brazil