In one terminally ill cancer patient with intractable thoracic pain, intraventricular oxytocin reduced pain by 88% for 77 min.
In plain wordsIn one patient with severe cancer pain, oxytocin given into the brain ventricles reduced pain by 88% for 77 minutes.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- DecreasePain reduction after intraventricular oxytocin
- Study
n = 1
- Outcome group
- Pain · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · intraventricularAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- pain reduction
- 88%
- oxytocin
- duration of pain reduction
- 77 min
- oxytocin
Source sentences
SOM-14 reduced pain by 90% for 48 min; AVP reduced pain by 95% for 75 min, and OT reduced pain by 88% for 77 min.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
The analgesic effect of intraventricular somatostatin-14 (SOM-14), arginine vasopressin (AVP), and oxytocin (OT) were tested in one terminally ill cancer patient with a diffuse mesothelioma suffering intractable continuous and incapacitating thoracic pain.