title: [Pruritus in chronic kidney insufficiency].
abstract: Itching is the dermatologic symptom more often found in patients with chronic renal failure. We have studied 80 patients with end-stage renal disease; itching was present in 56.3% of the cases. We didn't detected in this study any correlation between itching, long term hemodialysis, high calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase or phosphocalcic product levels. We have seen: 1. Those patients with itching were older than the rest. 2. Itching was important in those patients with residual diuresis less than 500 ml/day (p greater than 0.01). 3. Those men without itching had higher hematocrit levels (p greater than 0.01). 4. Histologic findings on optic and electronic microscopy were more frequent in patients who presented this symptom.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bruni
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dos Ramos Farias
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Heguilen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Galimberti
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laghens
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bianchi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Petrolito
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Herrero
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011537:Pruritus / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology
vernacular_title: Prurito en la insuficiencia renal crónica.