We studied the effect of sunburn-spectrum ultraviolet (UVB) phototherapy on intractable pruritus of twenty five patients on hemodialysis for chronic renal failure. All the patients reported a marked and generalized disappearance in pruritus after a course of two weeks of treatment and two to eight exposure (mean 5). Patients remain in remission for a mean of at least 14 months (9 ± 3) after the treatment. Our experience confirms that ultraviolet phototherapy is an effective, safe and long lasting treatment for uremic pruritus.
[Phototherapy and uremic pruritus] / P.L. Bencini, R. Betti, A. Marmini, C. Crosti. - In: GIORNALE ITALIANO DI DERMATOLOGIA E VENEREOLOGIA. - ISSN 0392-0488. - 123:5(1988 May), pp. 249-251.
[Phototherapy and uremic pruritus]
C. CrostiUltimo
1988
Abstract
We studied the effect of sunburn-spectrum ultraviolet (UVB) phototherapy on intractable pruritus of twenty five patients on hemodialysis for chronic renal failure. All the patients reported a marked and generalized disappearance in pruritus after a course of two weeks of treatment and two to eight exposure (mean 5). Patients remain in remission for a mean of at least 14 months (9 ± 3) after the treatment. Our experience confirms that ultraviolet phototherapy is an effective, safe and long lasting treatment for uremic pruritus.
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