Eight weeks of regular submaximal exercise has beneficial effects on quality of life and exercise capacity in children with asthma. Submaximal basketball training is an effective alternative exercise program for asthmatic children.

Within the limitations of this study, the results indicated that LLLT may enhance epithelization and improve wound healing after gingivectomy and gingivoplasty operations.

The results of this study clearly indicated that patient perceptions on the immediate post-operative period were significantly better in the NS and S+EMD groups when compared with the SG group. These findings need to be confirmed in further studies with larger populations.

This study shows that EMD is an effective, safe and predictable biomaterial for periodontal regeneration and LLLT may improve the effects of EMD by reducing post-operative complications.

Background/aims: The aim of this study was to examine a plausible correlation between venous and arterial blood gas values in acidotic patients with chronic uremia or diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Methods: A total of 152 arterial and 152 venous blood samples from uremic patients (n = 100), DKA patients (n = 21) and healthy controls (n = 31) were analyzed for measurements of blood gas and acid-base status. Results: The means of arterial and venous pH, and arterial and venous HCO^–₃ values for the uremic patients were 7.17 ± 0.14, 7.13 ± 0.14, 10.13 ± 4.26 and 11.86 ± 4.23 mmol/l, respectively. The respective mean differences between arterial and venous pH values and arterial and venous HCO^–₃ values were 0.04 ± 0.02 and –1.72 ± 0.42 mmol/l, respectively, for these patients. The means of the laboratory findings of DKA patients were arterial pH, 7.15 ± 0.15; venous pH, 7.10 ± 0.15; arterial HCO^–₃, 8.57 ± 5.71 mmol/l and venous HCO^–₃, 10.46 ± 5.73 mmol/l. The respective mean differences between arterial and venous pH and arterial and venous HCO^–₃ for this group were calculated to be 0.05 ± 0.01 and –1.88 ± 0.41 mmol/l. In the healthy controls, the means of arterial and venous pH, and arterial and venous HCO^–₃ values were 7.39 ± 0.02, 7.34 ± 0.02, 24.91 ± 0.82 and 26.57 ± 0.83 mmol/l, respectively. For the healthy controls the mean differences between the respective values in arterial and venous pH, and arterial and venous HCO^–₃ were 0.05 ± 0.01 and –1.66 ± 0.58 mmol/l. Although in healthy controls the correlation between arterial and venous pH values (r²: 0.595) and arterial and venous HCO^–₃ values (r²: 0.552) were moderate, these correlations were significantly increased in both the acidotic patient group (r²: 0.979 and 0.990) and the DKA group (r²: 0.989 and 0.995) Conclusion: A venous blood sample can be used to evaluate the acid-base status in uremic and DKA patients.