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ArticleRevista latino-americana de enfermagem2025

Photobiomodulation and photodynamic therapy in the treatment of pressure injuries: a scoping review.

Alexsandra Martins da Silva, Gabriela Machado Silva, Jerusa Celi Martins, Taline Bavaresco, Maria Elena Echevarría-Guanilo

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Article in Revista latino-americana de enfermagem, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Alexsandra Martins da SilvaUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-9147-9990
Gabriela Machado SilvaUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-9409-1916
Jerusa Celi MartinsUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-4295-3996
Taline BavarescoUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-5944-1941
Maria Elena Echevarría-GuaniloUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Enfermagem, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-0505-9258

Funding

Re-Engineering Translational Research at the University of ChicagoTL1TR000432 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI SOLWAY, JULIAN · 2012 to 2016
$289k
NCATS NIH HHS TL1 TR000432
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveto map the scientific literature on photobiomodulation and photodynamic therapy in the treatment of pressure injuries.

methodthis was a scoping review, as recommended by the Joanna Briggs Institute. It included primary and secondary studies available in full in Portuguese, English and Spanish, published in the last 10 years, from 2014 to 2024, in nine databases.

results24 studies were included according to the eligibility criteria. The findings suggest that photobiomodulation and photodynamics can play an important role in tissue repair, size reduction and improvement of clinical indicators in the management of pressure injuries. A diversity of laser types used in photobiomodulation was observed and the most common wavelengths used included 658 nm, 660 nm, 808 nm and 980 nm.

conclusionthe studies identified show that photobiomodulation and photodynamic therapies have promising results in healing, reducing the size of lesions and improving clinical indicators in the treatment of pressure injuries.

background(1) Light therapies are effective in treating pressure injuries. (2) Optimized healing is a promising result of the therapies studied. (3) Reduction in lesion size is a positive effect of the therapies used. (4) There is clinical improvement shown in the indicators in the studies reviewed.

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Low-Level Light TherapyPhotochemotherapyPressure UlcerHumansWound Healing

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PMID39969041
PMCPMC11835006

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