The Effectiveness of Polynucleotides in Esthetic Medicine: A Systematic Review.

Background: Polynucleotides (PN), popular in biorevitalization, show promise in the current sphere of esthetic medicine due to their regenerative properties, previously used in wound healing. Currently, research investigates their use in esthetic medicine. The aim of this review was to synthesize the existing literature, focusing on the effectiveness of PN in esthetic medicine, which is concentrated on skin rejuvenation by providing patients with multiple benefits and the least side effects.

Health Related Quality of Life Following Intervention for Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.

Background: Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAA) pose significant risks of morbidity and mortality. Considering the evolving techniques for TAAA intervention and the growing interest in quality of life (QoL) outcomes for decision-making, we aimed to evaluate the impact of patient and perioperative characteristics on short-term, medium-term, and long-term postoperative QoL in TAAA repair patients.

Methods: A systematic search was conducted in CINAHL, APA PsycINFO, EMBASE, Medline and Cochrane to identify primary research studies evaluating QoL post TAAA surgery, published in English or Swedish between January 01, 2012 and September 26, 2022.

Smoking cessation: why is it a persistent problem in patients with peripheral artery disease?

Nurses play a key role in advising patients to quit smoking, especially those with long-term conditions including cardiovascular disease. Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is an increasingly prevalent condition, and is the third most common presentation of atherosclerotic disease after coronary heart disease and stroke. Smoking cessation is crucial for patients with PAD but can be very challenging.

Healthcare interventions to aid patient self-management of lower limb wounds: A systematic scoping review.

Chronic lower limb wounds can be described as having the inability to progress through stages of wound healing. Although 80% of lower limb wounds develop as a result of venous insufficiency, other causes include arterial disease and diabetes. In addition to the sustained impact on quality of life, the chronicity of lower limb wounds presents a significant financial burden to healthcare systems.

Factors Affecting Engagement in Web-Based Health Care Patient Information: Narrative Review of the Literature.

Background: Web-based content is rapidly becoming the primary source of health care information. There is a pressing need for web-based health care content to not only be accurate but also be engaging. Improved engagement of people with web-based health care content has the potential to inform as well as influence behavioral change to enable people to make better health care choices.

Electrocardiographic predictors of successful resynchronization of left bundle branch block by His bundle pacing.

Background: His bundle pacing (HBP) is an alternative to biventricular pacing (BVP) for delivering cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) in patients with heart failure and left bundle branch block (LBBB). It is not known whether ventricular activation times and patterns achieved by HBP are equivalent to intact conduction systems and not all patients with LBBB are resynchronized by HBP.

Objective: To compare activation times and patterns of His-CRT with BVP-CRT, LBBB and intact conduction systems.