Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Dialysis-Related Symptoms in Individuals Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials.

Background: Hemodialysis is associated with a high symptom burden that impairs health-related quality of life and functional status. Effective symptom management is a priority for individuals receiving hemodialysis. Aerobic exercise may be an effective, nonpharmacologic treatment for specific hemodialysis-related symptoms.

Effect of an exercise rehabilitation program on physical function over 1 year in chronic kidney disease: an observational study.

Background: Exercise rehabilitation may help maintain physical function in chronic kidney disease (CKD), but long-term clinical effectiveness is unknown. We evaluated the effect of an exercise rehabilitation program on physical function over 1 year in individuals with CKD.

Methods: This clinical program evaluation included adults with CKD (any stage) registered in a provincial renal program from 1 January 2011 to 31 March 2016.

Renal vascular variants in living related renal donors: evaluation with CT angiography.

Background: Renal vascular variants may complicate the surgical techniques of living related renal transplantation. Renal computed tomographic (CT) angiography is now well accepted for preoperative renal vascular mapping in living related renal donors.

Objective: To study the prevalence of renal vascular variants in living related renal donors using CT angiography.

Prospective, randomized comparison of castor oil and sodium phosphate preparation for barium enema.

Objective: To compare castor oil and sodium phosphate preparation (Swiff) in patients' satisfaction, efficacy for colon cleanness, side effects, and prices.

Material And Method: One hundred patients referred for barium enema were randomized to receive castor oil (n = 50) and sodium phosphate preparation (n = 50). They graded their satisfaction using a 5-point scale (easy, acceptable, slightly difficult, extremely difficult, and unacceptable).

Absence of physiological tolerance to cocaine in pregnant sheep.

Objective: To determine whether repetitive administration of cocaine to sheep during pregnancy altered basal hemodynamic states in the mother and fetus, and to determine whether this cocaine exposure would alter subsequent hemodynamic responses to cocaine.

Methods: Cocaine or saline was administered to 16 pregnant sheep daily from day 75 to day 128 of gestation (term = 145 days). At 128 days' gestation, maternal and fetal basal physiological measurements, including organ-specific blood flow in the fetus, were determined.