Invited Lectures 604 Free Communications 612 Poster Presentations 623 Index 640 7th World Congress on Itch (WCI) 2013 September 21–23, 2013 at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 600 7th World Congress on Itch (WCI) – September 21–23, 2013, Boston, USA Acta Derm Venereol 93 Saturday, September 21, 2013 14:00–16:30 IFSI Board Meeting 15:00–17:00 Congress registra...

background : pruritus is one of the commonest problems in patients with end-stage renal failure undergoing hemodialysis. pruritus is an irritating symptom which can directly affect the life quality of patients with chronic renal failure. however, available treatments have failed to relieve the symptom and kidney transplant remains the definite treatment of the problem. a recently proposed treat...

Background and aim: Pruritus is a common disabling problem in patients with end stage renal disease. Several studies has recorded the relation between pruritus with hemodialysis in chronic renal failure (CRF) patients. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of hemodialysis on pruritus of patients with CRF.Materials and Methods: After recording the demographic data and the diagnosis of d...

introduction wilson’s disease is an autosomal recessive disorder, characterized by a disturbance in copper metabolism that leads to copper overload in different tissues of the body. because of various manifestations of wilson’s disease, physicians should have high index suspicion when patients manifest any type of liver disease, neurologic and psychiatric signs and symptoms. discussion wilson’s...

Severe persistent pruritus is a common, but incompletely characterized, complication of hydroxyethyl starch (HES) infusion. This retrospective study aimed to assess HES-induced pruritus by electron microscopic findings, pruritus characteristics, and response to stimuli, and to determine the impact of HES dosage, molecular weight and substitution. Seventy patients with electron micro-scopy-prove...

BACKGROUND Pruritus affects many haemodialysis (HD) patients. In this study, pruritus and its relationship to morbidity, mortality, quality of life (QoL), sleep quality and patient laboratory measures were analysed in >300 dialysis units in 12 countries. METHODS Pruritus data were collected from 18 801 HD patients in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) (1996-2004). Analy...