A case of severe paraneoplastic itch resistant to antihistamines and responding to serotonin reuptake inhibitors

This article covers an interesting topic. Paraneoplastic pruritus is rare but can be severe. It can sometimes be resistant to usual treatments. In our case, it was resistant to antihistamines but was relieved by inhibitors of serotonin scrapping.

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Autores principales: Werda, Ines, Feki, Jihene, Khemiri, Souhir, Ben Kridis, Wala, Khanfir, Afef
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8259799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34257972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4279
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author Werda, Ines
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spelling pubmed-82597992021-07-12 A case of severe paraneoplastic itch resistant to antihistamines and responding to serotonin reuptake inhibitors Werda, Ines Feki, Jihene Khemiri, Souhir Ben Kridis, Wala Khanfir, Afef Clin Case Rep Case Reports This article covers an interesting topic. Paraneoplastic pruritus is rare but can be severe. It can sometimes be resistant to usual treatments. In our case, it was resistant to antihistamines but was relieved by inhibitors of serotonin scrapping. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8259799/ /pubmed/34257972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4279 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Werda, Ines
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Ben Kridis, Wala
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A case of severe paraneoplastic itch resistant to antihistamines and responding to serotonin reuptake inhibitors
title A case of severe paraneoplastic itch resistant to antihistamines and responding to serotonin reuptake inhibitors
title_full A case of severe paraneoplastic itch resistant to antihistamines and responding to serotonin reuptake inhibitors
title_fullStr A case of severe paraneoplastic itch resistant to antihistamines and responding to serotonin reuptake inhibitors
title_full_unstemmed A case of severe paraneoplastic itch resistant to antihistamines and responding to serotonin reuptake inhibitors
title_short A case of severe paraneoplastic itch resistant to antihistamines and responding to serotonin reuptake inhibitors
title_sort case of severe paraneoplastic itch resistant to antihistamines and responding to serotonin reuptake inhibitors
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8259799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34257972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4279
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