A study of combined hemodialysis-hemoperfusion in treating patients with end-stage renal failure associated cutaneous pruritus

Abstract

Objective To explore the efficacy and mechanism of combined hemodialysis-hemoperfusion in treating patients with end-stage renal failure associated cutaneous pruritus. Methods Eighty-one outpatients and inpatients with end-stage renal failure associated different degree of cutaneous pruritus were randomly divided into treatment group (combined hemoperfusion-hemodialysis, 50 cases) and control group (simple hemodialysis, 31 cases). At the pretreatment and 24 weeks posttreatment, all patients' serum creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, serum total calcium, serum phosphonium, serum intact parathyroid hormone and the intensity of cutaneous pruritus (visual analog scale,VAS) were determined detected. Results Compared with pretreatment, the intensity of cutaneous pruritus of patients in treatment group was obviously alleviated (P 0.05), there was significant difference between two groups (P 0.05), there was significant difference between two groups (P<0.01). Conclusions Combined hemodialysis-hemoperfusion can obviously alleviate the intensity of cutaneous pruritus of patients with end-stage renal failure, but simple hemodialysis can not alleviate it,its mechanism may be that it can clean the internal irritant toxin which leads to cutaneous pruritus well. Key words: Renal dialysis; Hemoperfusion; Kidney failure,chronic; Pruritus