Resumen

VELILLA-ZANCADA, Sonsoles M  y  PRIETO-DIAZ, Miguel Ángel. Pruritus in a diabetic patient, is an indicator of target organ damage?. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2014, vol.30, n.4, pp. 498-501. ISSN 1561-3038.

A seventy-one years-old diabetic and hypertensive male patient with generalized pruritus, probably of uremic etiology, as a result of a rapid deterioration of renal function was presented. After changing the treatment, with improvement in glomerular filtration rate and blood urea levels, clinical signs disappeared and the patient remains asymptomatic.

Palabras clave : pruritus; diabetes; renal insufficiency.

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