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Daniel Pipilas, MD Profile picture
Daniel Pipilas, MD
@DPipilasMD
Cardiology Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital | Former Medicine Resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Peloton Enthusiast | All thoughts are my own
Jun 29, 2019 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Why do people with cholestasis itch? The short answer is we don’t fully know. The long answer is much more interesting. Last weekend before Cards Fellowship writing my first tweetorial. Here we go! (photo by Gustave Doré) Pruritis is a symptom associated with many cholestatic liver diseases and can be so severe it wakes patients from sleep. Some patients even scratch using knives and forks to cause pain and relieve the itching. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22541702