Status:

COMPLETED

Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Hyoscine Butylbromide Tablets for the Treatment of Occasional or Recurrent Episodes of Gastric or Intestinal Spasm-like Pain or Discomfort

Lead Sponsor:

Boehringer Ingelheim

Conditions:

Abdominal Pain

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-70 years

Phase:

PHASE3

Brief Summary

In contrast with Hyoscine Butylbromide Capsule 10mg, Study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Hyoscine Butylbromide tablets 10 mg (20mg, 3 times daily, orally) over a period of 3 days for the t...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Written Informed Consent given by the patient
  • Male and female patients aging from 18 to 70
  • Subjects with occasional or recurrent episodes of gastric or intestinal spasm-like pain, or discomfort, such as occur e.g. in irritable bowel syndrome, which has been present for at least 3 months
  • The pain intensity score upon screening is at least 4 cm in VAS score

Exclusion

  • Patients with the following concomitant disease were not eligible for enrolment
  • Painful gastric or intestinal spasm of organic origin such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, lactose intolerance, gastritis, ulcer. Exception: diverticulitis and mild gastritis if dominant symptom was cramp pain, but ineligible if heartburn or reflux were dominant symptoms
  • Pain related with malignancy
  • Patients with other severe pain states of organic origin
  • Mechanical stenosis of the gastrointestinal tract, megacolon
  • Urinary retention associated with mechanical stenosis of urinary tract
  • Narrow-angled glaucoma
  • Tachyarrhythmia
  • Myasthenia gravis
  • Meulengracht-Gilbert syndrome
  • Known depression or known mental illness, anxiety disturbance
  • Frequent vomiting that might have prevented adequate absorption of the active ingredient after the film-coated tablet was taken
  • Patients taking the following concomitant medication are not eligible for enrolment
  • Analgesics
  • Spasmolytics
  • Anticholinergics
  • Affecting gastrointestinal motility, such as propantheline metoclopramide, cisapride, loperamide, diphenoxylate, opioid analgesics, antacids and other ulcer treatment
  • Regular administration of laxatives
  • Narcotics
  • Antidepressant treatment or treatment with psychoactive drugs
  • Pregnancy and/or lactation or planned pregnancy
  • Known hypersensitivity to N-butylscopolammonium bromide
  • Alcohol or drug abuse
  • Simultaneous participating in another clinical trial, or discontinuing from another clinical trial before randomization (administration of study medication); moreover, in the case of screening failure or premature discontinuing from the trial, repeated enrolment is forbidden
  • Unwilling to or unable to complete the entire trial procedure according to the protocol
  • In investigator's opinion, the patient was not proper for the trial

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 1 2008

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

July 20 2009

Estimated Enrollment :

302 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02242305

Start Date

November 1 2008

End Date

July 20 2009

Last Update

July 27 2017

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