Evaluation of treatment effectiveness and prognosis of infantile hemangioma by infrared thermography. Summary / ; Vaikų hemangiomų prognozės ir gydymo veiksmingumo vertinimas infraraudonųjų spindulių termografija. Santrauka.

The main goal of the dissertation is to identify and analyse prognostic success and failure criteria of infantile hemangioma observation and treatment using infrared thermography. Research tasks were: 1) To determine the diagnostic value of surface temperature measurement of infantile hemangiomas (IH) using infrared thermography; 2) To determine and analyze the peak and average surface temperature values of IHs using infrared thermography; 3) To identify proliferation risk factors of IHs attributed to the observed group of the research and to determine the diagnostic value of such risk factors; 4) To determine the value of infrared thermography in the assessment of treatment effectiveness of IHs. 102 patients with IHs were selected for this perspective biomedical study. Results: 1) the highest surface temperature of an IH (measured by an infrared thermometer) was determined in the proliferating IH subroup; 2) surface temperature averages were statistically significantly different in the subgroups when measuring with an infrared thermographer; 3) a higher surface temperature measured by an infrared thermographer is a prognostic factor of IH proliferation; 4) there was a statistically significant decrease in the surface temperature of treated IH between each visit, indicating in a positive treatment outcome.