Beyond the Pain Management Clinic: The Role of AI-Integrated Remote Patient Monitoring in Chronic Disease Management - A Narrative Review.

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) stands as a pivotal advancement in patient-centered care, offering substantial improvements in the diagnosis, management, and outcomes of chronic conditions. Through the utilization of advanced digital technologies, RPM facilitates the real-time collection and transmission of critical health data, enabling clinicians to make prompt, informed decisions that enhance patient safety and care, particularly within home environments. This narrative review synthesizes evidence from peer-reviewed studies to evaluate the transformative role of RPM, particularly its integration with Artificial Intelligence (AI), in managing chronic conditions such as heart failure, diabetes, and chronic pain.

Platelet Rich Fibrin Graft in Myringoplasty: Pitfalls and Challenges.

Autologous Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) is an amalgam of fibrin mesh, platelets and growth factors that favour wound healing. It can be easily used as a graft material in myringoplasty, making it a promising, easy to harvest and cost effective alternative compared to cartilage or fascia graft used in conventional myringoplasty. 50 patients of small to medium, dry central perforation underwent myringoplasty using PRF graft (Group 1).

Chemical neurolysis of the genicular nerves for chronic refractory knee pain: an observational cohort study.

Objective: Evaluate outcomes of genicular nerve chemical neurolysis (GChN) in a real-world population with chronic knee pain.

Design: Restrospective, observational cohort study.

Setting: Tertiary academic medical center.

The neutrophil to albumin ratio as a predictor of pathological complete response in rectal cancer patients following neoadjuvant chemoradiation.

Pathological complete response (pCR) following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) and total mesorectal excision (TME), in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer, occurs in 15-27% of patients. Because blood cell counts and albumin are a direct indicator of the host environment, a response to nCRT might be predicted by these markers. This study was carried out to determine whether the neutrophil to albumin ratio (NAR) was predictive of pCR in veteran patients.

Predictors of inguinodynia, recurrence, and metachronous hernias after inguinal herniorrhaphy in veteran patients.

Background: The present single-institution, single-surgeon experience interrogated morbidity as well as predictors of inguinodynia, recurrence, and metachronous hernias in 953 consecutive inguinal herniorrhaphies between 2005 and 2015.

Methods: Data were prospectively collected and retrospectively analyzed from patient medical records at the VA North Texas Health Care System.

Results: Ninety-nine percent of our patients were male, 73% Caucasian, 60.

Biological Mesh Implants for Abdominal Hernia Repair: US Food and Drug Administration Approval Process and Systematic Review of Its Efficacy.

Importance: Expensive biological mesh materials are increasingly used to reinforce abdominal wall hernia repairs. The clinical and cost benefit of these materials are unknown.

Objectives: To review the published evidence on the use of biological mesh materials and to examine the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval history for these devices.

Clinical and molecular diagnosis of pathologic complete response in rectal cancer.

The current standard approach to locally advanced rectal cancer involves pre-operative chemoradiotherapy followed by total mesorectal excision. This practice is supported by several studies that have demonstrated superior local control with this approach. This strategy, leads to a pathologic complete response (pCR) in a substantial proportion of patients treated with neoadjuvant therapy.