Uraemic pruritus - New perspectives and insights from recent trials

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1558-1563

  Mettang, Thomas ^a   Pauli Magnus, Christiane ^b   Alscher, Dominik Mark ^a  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

End stage renal disease; Therapy; Trials; Uraemic pruritus

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 2; NALFURAFINE; NALOXONE; NALTREXONE; OPIATE; PLACEBO; TACROLIMUS; THALIDOMIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; T LYMPHOCYTE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; UREMIA;

EID: 0036712054     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/17.9.1558     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Urm̈ischer pruritus-pathophysiologische und therapeutische konzepte
2. Relief of pruritus and decreases in plasma histamine concentrations during erythropoietin therapy in patients with uremia
3. Erythropoietin does not improve uremic pruritus
4. Randomised crossover trial of naltrexone in uraemic pruritus
5. Naltrexone does not relieve uremic pruritus: Results of a randomized, placebo-controlled crossover-study
6. Hautveränderungen bei haemodialysepatienten
7. Uremic pruritus: A review
8. Clinical features of pruritus among patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis
9. Dermatologic evaluation of pruritus in patients on hemodialysis
10. Uremic pruritus in patients on hemodialysis or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). The role of plasma histamine and skin mast cells
11. Urämischer pruritus im kindes- und jugendalter
12. Interactable pruritus as a manifestation of secondary hyperparathyroidism in uremia
13. Disappearence of uremic itching after subtotal parathyreoidectomy
14. Experimental and immunohistochemical studies on the possible role of parathyroid hormone in uremic pruritus
15. Uremic pruritus: Skin divalent ion content and response to ultraviolet phototherapy
16. Increased plasma histamine in uremic pruritus
17. Optimal dialysis improves uremic pruritus
18. Uremic pruritus and skin mast cells
19. Ultraviolet phototherapy of uremic pruritus. Long-term results and possible mechanisms of action
20. UVB exposure-induced systemic modulation of Th1 - And Th2-mediated immune responses
21. Optimal dialysis improves uremic pruritus
22. In vivo intracellular cytokine production by leukocytes during hemodialysis
23. Thalidomide for the treatment of uremic pruritus: A crossover randomized double-blind trial
24. Short-term efficacy of tacrolimus ointment in severe uremic pruritus
25. The immunosuppressive drug thalidomide induces T helper cell type 2 (Th2) and concomitantly inhibits Th1 cytokine production in mitogen- and antigen-stimulated human peripheral blood mononuclear cell cultures
26. Renal transplantation
27. Normalisierung der urämischen hautveränderungen nach nierentransplantation
28. Phase I trial of combined interleukin-2 with lev in patients with advanced malignant disease
29. Skin testing of the pruritogenic activity of histamine and cytokines (interleukin-2 and tumour necrosis factor-α) at the dermo-epidermal junction
30. + T cells with ageing
31. Side effects of epidural morphine
32. Intrathecal and epidural administration of opioids
33. The pruritus of cholestasis: Potential pathogenic and therapeutic implications of opioids
34. Cholestasis in the male rat is associated with naloxone-reversible antinociception
35. Effects of naloxone infusion in patients with the pruritus of cholestasis: A doubleblind randomised controls trial
36. Open-label trial of oral nalmefene therapy for the pruritus of cholestasis
37. Central μ-opioid-receptors are down-regulated in a rat model of acute cholestasis
38. Opioid peptides and primary biliary cirrhosis
39. Naloxone in treatment of uremic pruritus: A case history
40. Topical tacrolimus in the treatment of atopic dermatitis
41. Uremic pruritus: Roles of parathyroid hormone and substance P