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Chronic Pruritus of Unknown Origin: Clinical Profile and Disease-Related Burden
Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2021 Chronic pruritus of unknown origin is established when no underlying origin for pruritus can be determined. This retrospective cohort study aimed to determine the clinical profile and disease-related burden of chronic pruritus of unknown origin.
Manuel P. Pereira +3 more
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Obeticholic acid for the treatment of primary biliary cholangitis in adult patients: clinical utility and patient selection. [PDF]
, 2016 Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), previously known as primary biliary "cirrhosis", is a rare autoimmune liver disease characterized by the hallmark autoantibodies to mitochondrial antigens and immune-mediated destruction of small bile duct epithelial ...
Bowlus, Christopher L
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Epidemiology of Prurigo Nodularis compared with Psoriasis in Germany: A Claims Database Analysis
Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2020 Prurigo nodularis is an itchy skin disease with unknown epidemiology. This study aimed to describe the epidemiology of prurigo nodularis compared with that of psoriasis.
Sonja Ständer +6 more
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Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2021 Chronic nodular prurigo is characterized by recalcitrant itch. Patient perspectives on therapeutic goals, satisfaction with therapy and efficacy of therapeutic regimens for this condition are unknown. This questionnaire study examined these issues in 406
Manuel P. Pereira +27 more
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2021 Background: Pruritus is a frequent adverse event during the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), with a frequency estimated to be between 11 and 47%.
Nadia Salinas +12 more
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Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2019 Few studies have validated standard measurement instruments for evaluation of chronic pruritus. The Chronic Pruritus Tools Questionnaire PRURITOOLS assembles a set of instruments for the assessment of pruritus, such as the visual analogue scale ...
Emely Verweyen +10 more
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Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2022 Patients with chronic itch describe their pruritus in a wide variety of ways. However, these subjective descriptions are often not taken into consideration by physicians. This study aimed to validate patients’ descriptions of pruritus, and to investigate
Ji Hoon Ryoo +16 more
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Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2019 Chronic pruritus (CP) is often accompanied by paresthetic sensations like warmth, burning and stinging. The aim of this study was to analyze, whether divergent sensations are linked to structural and functional skin alterations in clinically diagnosed CP
Johanna Hidding +9 more
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Current concepts of pathophysiology, epidemiology and classification of pruritus [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2014 Discovery of pruritus-specific mediators and receptors facilitated the neurobiological concept of pruritus: itch-specific (histamine-dependent and histamine-independent C-fibers); itch-specific receptors on cutaneous and spinal neurons ...
Jovanović Marina
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Assessing acute itch intensity : general labelled magnitude scale is more reliable than classic visual analogue scale [PDF]
, 2016 The reliable measurement of itch intensity is crucial, both in research as well as clinical contexts. For example, when the reliability of a measurement scale is unknown, it is impossible to determine whether a patient has changed sufficiently to be ...
Holle, Henning +3 more
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