What is it about?
Renal itch is common in patients with advanced kidney disease, before and after starting dialysis. It can be severe and significantly worsens quality of life and sleep. It is associated with depression and increased mortality
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Why is it important?
This is the largest case series of patients with severe itching due to uraemic pruritus.
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Treatment of this condition with gabapentin and pregabalin can have a near miraculous effect on patients. I have never had more grateful patients. It is extremely satisfying to be able to improve someone's life so simply
Dr Hugh C Rayner
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
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This page is a summary of: Uraemic Pruritus: Relief of Itching by Gabapentin and Pregabalin, Nephron Clinical Practice, January 2012, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000349943.
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