Pre-treatment protoporphyrin IX concentration in actinic keratosis lesions may be a predictive biomarker of response to aminolevulinic-acid based photodynamic therapy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2015

Publication Title

Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy

Department

Thayer School of Engineering

Abstract

: Although aminolevulinic acid (ALA)-induced protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) photodynamic therapy (PDT)is an effective FDA-approved therapy for actinic keratosis (AK), a substantial fraction of patients (up to 25%) do not respond to treatment. This study examined the feasibility of using pre-treatment measurements of PpIX concentration in AK lesions to predict response of ALA-PpIX PDT. Methods: A non-invasive fiber-optic fluorescence spectroscopy system was used to measure PpIX concentration in patients undergoing standard-of-care ALA-PDT for AK. All patients provided assessments of pain at the time of treatment (n = 70), and a subset reported pain and erythema 48–76 h after treatment (n = 13).

DOI

10.1016/j.pdpdt.2015.10.006

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