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Prostaglandin inhibitors such as indomethacin have been used for the treatment of renal colic. While opioids have a central analgesic effect, the effects of indomethacin are mainly peripheral, acting directly on the kidney. Pharmacourodynamic investigations of the upper urinary tract in men have demonstrated that intravenous indomethacin reduces renal pelvic pressure. These effects are more intense with indomethacin than with metamizol and are not found with hyoscine butylbromide. We have determined that indomethacin reduces the smooth muscle activity of human renal pelvis preparations in a tissue bath. These findings may represent a further possible direct effect of indomethacin on the upper urinary tract during the treatment of renal colic.
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PMID:Effects of prostaglandin synthetase inhibitors on the upper urinary tract. Experimental studies on isolated preparations and urodynamic measurements in men. 212 35

Prostaglandin synthesis inhibitors and parasympatholytic drugs are often used as analgetics in the case of renal colic. This paper analyzes how and whether these drug effects are important for the analgetic therapy. In an animal and in a human model with acutely obstructed kidneys we found that intravenous application of Indometacine and dipyrone significantly reduces renal pelvic pressure. The parasympatholytic drug hyoscine butylbromide did not produce any change of upper urinary tract dynamics. Inhibitors of prostaglandin synthesis thus effect pressure reduction in the renal pelvis, which is necessary for analgetic therapy. In contrast, hyoscine butylbromide does not have any influence on the acute upper urinary tract obstruction; consequently its usefulness in the treatment of renal colic is rather doubtful.
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PMID:[Current conservative treatment of renal colic: value of prostaglandin synthesis inhibitors]. 1279 78