Successful Treatment of Itch in Kidney Patients
Uremic pruritus is prevalent amongst dialysis patients and negatively affects their quality of life, sleep, mood and social functioning. The effect of nalbufine on uremic pruritus was presented yesterday at the late breaking clinical trials session. 373 hemodialysis patients were assigned to receive nalbufine 120 mg (n=120), nalbufine 60 mg (n=128) or placebo (n=125) for […]
