1. Pruritus and quality of life in renal transplant patients
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Carmine Zoccali, Giovanna Parlongo, Francesca Mallamaci, Marianna Bellantoni, Giovanni Tripepi, Serena Quattrone, Rocco Tripepi, Vincenzo Panuccio, Viviana Lacava, and Licia Saporito
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Visual analogue scale ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Population ,030232 urology & nephrology ,Severity of Illness Index ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Quality of life ,Renal Dialysis ,Rating scale ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Internal medicine ,Prevalence ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,education ,Dialysis ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Transplantation ,education.field_of_study ,integumentary system ,business.industry ,Pruritus ,Middle Aged ,Prognosis ,Kidney Transplantation ,humanities ,body regions ,Italy ,Renal transplant ,Case-Control Studies ,Quality of Life ,Kidney Failure, Chronic ,Female ,Hemodialysis ,business ,Follow-Up Studies - Abstract
BACKGROUND Pruritus has a negative impact on quality of life (QoL) in dialysis patients. The reversibility of this symptom after renal transplantation and its impact upon QoL has scarcely been studied in these patients. METHODS Pruritus was evaluated by the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), the Visual Rating Scale (VRS), and the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) in 133 unselected renal transplant patients, 62 healthy subjects, and 29 hemodialysis patients. QoL was assessed by KDQOL-SF™ 1.3. The reversibility of pruritus was studied by applying retrospectively the VRS. RESULTS The prevalence of pruritus by the VRS was 62% in hemodialysis patients, 32% in renal transplant patients, and 11% in healthy subjects (P
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- 2017
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