A pilot investigation of cognitive improvement across a single hemodialysis treatment.
Conclusion: This study suggests that computer-based testing can offer information on the cognitive fluctuations of medically complex populations and suggests that the end of the session may be a better time to discuss important and complex health messages with hemodialysis patients. It further implies that some of the neurocognitive impairment that is associated with end-stage renal disease is a consequence of uremia and is improved by hemodialysis.
PMID: 22684651 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)