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Laboratory and dialysis characteristics in hemodialysis patients suffering from chronic itch - results from a representative cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: A representative cross-sectional study showed that chronic itch (lasting for a minimum of 6 weeks) affects 25.2 % (point prevalence) of hemodialysis (HD) patients. Pathophysiology and etiology of chronic itch (CI) in HD are still unclear. METHODS: We investigated 860 HD patients from a r...

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Autores principales: Weisshaar, Elke, Weiss, Melanie, Passlick-Deetjen, Jutta, Tschulena, Ulrich, Maleki, Klaudia, Mettang, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4632673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26530958
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-015-0177-3