Prevalence of Dermatologic Manifestations Among Patients on Chronic Hemodialysis

Introduction: Many literatures have revealed different cutaneous manifestations in patients with CKD but few of these literatures compared the prevalence of these manifestations in CKD s patients with general population. We aimed to compare the prevalence of dermatologic manifestations among patients on maintenance HD in Tamin Ejtemaei Hospital in Takestan (located in Qazvin province), to the general population.Methods: 45 patients undergoing regular hemodialysis, and 45 individuals who were randomly selected from healthy hospital staff, were examined for dermatologic manifestations. The statistical evaluation was performed by computer analysis with SPSS Software (version 11.0, SPSS Inc, Chicago, Ill, USA). P- Value less than 0.05 were considered significant.Results: 34 (75.5%) of hemodialysis patients and 11 (24.4%) of control group were found to have at least one dermatological manifestation. Among the skin manifestation, pruritus and Xerosis was observed mainly in hemodialysis patients. Also fungal, bacterial and viral infection were seen in hemodialysis patients. Seborrheic keratosis, Skin Bowen’s disease and Skin basal cell carcinoma was seen in this patients.Conclusion: This skin manifestations cause decreased of patient function and poor quality of life. For better management of the patients, awareness of involved medical team about these presentations is necessary. This patient need to periodical dermatologic evaluation.

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skin manifestations ، hemodialysis