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Nalfurafine hydrochloride to treat pruritus: a review

Uremic pruritus has a great negative influence on quality of life in hemodialysis (HD) patients and, importantly, negatively affects mortality risk. Recently, nalfurafine hydrochloride, an opioid κ-selective agonist, has been officially approved for resistant pruritus in HD patients on the basis of...

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Autor principal: Inui, Shigeki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4433050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26005355
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CCID.S55942