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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and pattern of common skin diseases in chronic kidney patients under medical treatment, and to determine their relations with chronic kidney disease stagin...

Uremic pruritus is a common complication of chronic renal failure. It affects approximately half of patients undergoing dialysis treatment. Even if the pruritus is not hazardous alone, it causes physical and mental fatig...

Fabry disease is an x-linked recessive metabolic storage disorder due to the deficiency of lysosomal α-galactosidase A, and the subsequent accumulation of glycosphingolipids, throughout the body. Patients usually presen...

Cholesterol Embolization Syndrome (CES) is a systemic disorder due to cholesterol crystal embolization from atherosclerotic plaques of the aorta and its major branches to the small arterioles, resulting in local ischemia...

Primary lymphedema is a rare disease caused by a disorder of lymphatic system. Clinical presentation and age at onset are variable. AA amyloidosis is usually due to chronic inflammatory diseases, malignant tumors or less...

Vitamin D (calciferol), is a fat-soluble vitamin and it is contained in very few foods. The main source of this vitamin is skin production. Subclinical vitamin D deficiency, diagnosed by a low 25 hydroxy vitamin D level,...