Chronic Pruritus: Histamine Is Not Always the Answer!

J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015 Oct;50(4):566-70. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.04.009. Epub 2015 May 1.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antipruritics / therapeutic use*
  • Chronic Disease
  • Female
  • Histamine / metabolism
  • Histamine Antagonists / therapeutic use*
  • Humans
  • Hypersensitivity / drug therapy
  • Hypersensitivity / physiopathology
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / drug therapy
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / physiopathology
  • Palliative Care / methods*
  • Pruritus / physiopathology
  • Pruritus / therapy*

Substances

  • Antipruritics
  • Histamine Antagonists
  • Histamine