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This study found that xerosis and pruritus are prevalent in patients with chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis, highlighting the importance of early recognition of skin issues to alleviate discomfort and reduce complications.

This report suggests that recombinant human erythropoietin use may be linked to alopecia in Southeast Asian women with chronic renal failure.

Chronic kidney disease can cause skin and nail problems.

In this study, pruritus was the most frequent skin disorder observed in hemodialyzed patients, particularly among those undergoing long-term dialysis.

A woman with anorexia developed gout from self-induced vomiting.

This review discusses various skin conditions linked with chronic kidney disease and highlights effective treatments but does not provide new clinical results.

This case study reports that prolonged high-dose vitamin A intake led to multiple adverse health effects in a young man, which mostly resolved after stopping the supplement, although liver changes persisted.

This study found that fremanezumab was effective in reducing migraine headache days by at least 50% for the majority of patients with high-frequency episodic or chronic migraine who had failed previous treatments.

This case report describes a patient with chronic renal failure on hemodialysis who experienced hair depigmentation while taking heptaminol, with the condition reversing after discontinuing the medication; the exact mechanism causing the color change is still unclear.

This study investigated how vitamin A deficiency, certain diseases, and pregnancy affect cattle coat hair structure, finding notable keratin fibril interference under vitamin A deficiency and structural modifications in chronic renal failure, while pregnant cows exhibited superior hair tensile strength compared to non-pregnant ones.

This report details a case of dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa in a 37-year-old male with a recessive mutation in the CLO7A1 gene, affecting type VII collagen.

This review discusses dermatologic changes in chronic renal failure patients undergoing hemodialysis and reports no new clinical results.

This case report describes a 36-year-old woman with hidradenitis suppurativa whose condition progressed to rapidly fatal squamous cell carcinoma, highlighting the potential for aggressive tumor development linked to specific protein markers.

Chronic kidney disease can cause hair loss, which may be related to zinc deficiency or certain medications, and sometimes hair grows back when the underlying issue is treated.

This study identified a strong association between heavy metal contamination in drinking water and chronic diseases like renal failure and liver cirrhosis in Great Cairo Cities, Egypt.

This case study details a 57-year-old woman with symptoms of androgen excess, including rapid hair growth and temporal balding, alongside abnormal testosterone levels and a history of chronic renal failure.

Minoxidil effectively treats severe hypertension but may cause side effects, so careful monitoring is needed.

This study found that during dialysis, lower plasma-potassium levels were associated with hyperglycemia, suggesting potassium correction is vital when using glucose-rich dialysate.

This article presents a case of Werner syndrome complicated by idiopathic membranous nephropathy, suggesting a possible but unproven genetic link between the two conditions.

This study found that an age-adjusted Charlson comorbidity index of four or more strongly predicts mortality in South Korean COVID-19 patients, highlighting the impact of comorbidity burden and older age on disease severity.

This study reports that finasteride increases hair count by reactivating resting follicles in men with frontal male pattern hair loss, with continuous clinical improvement due to thickening and elongation of hair even after hair count stabilization.

Skin problems can indicate different diseases inside the body.

Minoxidil effectively lowers blood pressure without major side effects.

This letter discusses the importance of microvascular disease in renal arterioles as a common cause of renal failure progressing to end-stage renal disease, a topic often overlooked in nephrology literature.

This study found that long-term minoxidil treatment, despite improving hemodynamics and left ventricular function, was associated with more frequent clinical events and a poorer clinical course in patients with chronic left ventricular failure.

In this study, anti-androgenic therapy with finasteride for prostate disease was associated with reduced cardiac hypertrophy in heart failure patients, encouraging further investigation in larger cohorts.

This review discusses the potential role of vitamin D deficiency in cardiovascular and renal diseases and suggests that supplemental vitamin D could benefit cardiovascular outcomes, especially in African American and postmenopausal women; it reports no new clinical findings.

Skin problems are common in kidney disease, with dry skin and itching in patients not on dialysis or on hemodialysis, and infections most common in transplant recipients.

This study found that dermatological issues, such as xerosis and pigmentation, are common in chronic kidney disease patients and increase with the severity and duration of the disease, indicating that dialysis often exacerbates these conditions.

This review covers skin manifestations in chronic kidney disease, highlighting their impact on quality of life, associated prognostic indicators, and available treatments, but provides no new clinical results.