In severe short bowel syndrome, intravenous octreotide reduced faecal mass versus placebo (p less than 0.005).
In plain wordsIn severe short bowel syndrome, intravenous octreotide reduced stool mass versus placebo.
- Peptide
- Octreotide
- Outcome
- DecreaseFaecal mass
- Study
n = 6
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Gastrointestinal protection · Gastrointestinal
- Studied dose
- 25 micrograms/h · intravenous infusionAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
Faecal mass was reduced (p less than 0.005) and intestinal net sodium absorption was increased (p less than 0.005) by intravenous infusion of SMS 25 micrograms/h.
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
The effect of a long acting somatostatin analogue SMS 201-995 on stomal effluents in patients with severe short bowel syndrome was investigated in a double blind placebo controlled balance study.
Six patients, five with Crohn's disease and one with radiation enteropathy were studied.
Five patients had a jejunostomy and one an ileostomy.