This is a summary of an article about people with primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) who also suffer from itch. PBC is a disease that affects the liver; itching is common in PBC and can dramatically reduce a person’s quality of life.This Plain Language Summary of Publication article from Future Rare Diseases discusses people with a liver disease, called primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), who also suffer from itch. Itching is quite common in those who have PBC and can dramatically reduce a person’s quality of life.

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The original article on which this summary is based is called ‘Impact of Pruritus on Quality of Life and Current Treatment Patterns in Patients with Primary Biliary Cholangitis’  and was published in Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 

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