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Query: UMLS:C0013395 (dyspepsia)
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Pirenzepine (PRZ, 75 mg/day for 10 days followed by 50 mg/day for 20 days) was compared with placebo (PL) in the treatment of endoscopically confirmed active gastroduodenitis or duodenal ulcer and with carbenoxolone (CB, 300 mg/day followed by 200 mg/day) in the treatment of gastric ulcer in a 30-day double-blind clinical trial. Ninety-seven of 112 outpatients completed the trial. The results can be summarized as follows: a) Gastroduodenitis. Complete normalization of the endoscopic picture was observed in 61% of the 28 patients on PRZ and in 30% of the 27 on PL. b) Duodenal ulcer. Complete endoscopic healing was observed in 75% of the 12 patients on PRZ and in 44% of the 9 on PL. In both studied PRZ induced improvement in clinical symptoms in more patients than PL. c) Gastric ulcer. PRZ and CB induced complete healing in a similar percentage of patients (64% of 11 and 70% of 10 patients). Better results in dyspepsia were observed in the PRZ group than the CB group. No major side-effects and no pathological changes in blood and urine analyses were observed in PRZ-treated patients.
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PMID:Pirenzepine in the treatment of benign gastroduodenal diseases. A double-blind controlled clinical trial. 39 54

Gastric injury and dyspepsia are major side-effects of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) or most non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSADs) which cause either gastric ulcerations or gastroduodenal erosions. There is only a limited number of trials in which the possibility of preventing or treating gastric lesions due to those drugs have been studied in man. This paper reviews trials in which H2-receptor antagonists, pirenzepine and prostaglandins have been investigated. - Pirenzepine given in antisecretory doses seems to improve gastrointestinal symptoms induced by ASA or NSADs. Cimetidine and misoprostol might prevent fecal blood loss. Gastroduodenal lesions might be prevented by pirenzepine, misoprostol and enprostil. It might be possible that cimetidine or ranitidine heal NSAD-induced peptic ulcers better than placebo in arthritic patients who stop the ingestion of NSADs. - All over the results of the cited trials are inconclusive, since the number of patients studied were too small and the design of almost all trials was incomparable. Furthermore, all cited studies do not correspond to Robert's concept of "cytoprotection", since H2-blockers, pirenzepine and prostaglandins have been applied in antisecretory doses in man.
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PMID:Anti-ulcer drugs in antisecretory doses for "cytoprotection" in arthritic patients? 288 50

Nonulcer dyspepsia remains a difficult disorder to treat because it is a heterogeneous syndrome. Once patients with the irritable bowel syndrome, esophagitis, and other organic diseases are excluded, there remain patients with dyspepsia of unknown cause (termed "essential dyspepsia") and patients with dyspepsia plus symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux without esophagitis. The aim of this study was to determine whether cimetidine or pirenzepine is efficacious in relieving the symptoms of these latter subgroups. Sixty-two consecutive patients were studied who had chronic upper abdominal pain or nausea where endoscopy had shown no evidence of peptic ulceration, esophagitis, or malignancy; 47 had essential dyspepsia, and 15 had dyspepsia plus gastroesophageal reflux. They were initially randomized to either cimetidine or placebo, or pirenzepine or placebo. Patients continued each medication for 1 mo, and, after a washout period, crossed over when again symptomatic; 51 patients completed cimetidine and placebo, and 50 completed pirenzepine and placebo. The results showed that cimetidine was superior to placebo in decreasing the number of upper abdominal pain episodes weekly and the severity of pain, but the absolute improvement was small. Pirenzepine was not superior to placebo in decreasing symptoms.
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PMID:Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover trial of cimetidine and pirenzepine in nonulcer dyspepsia. 351 48