In patients with digestive fistulae, lanreotide increased the probability of a fistula output response versus placebo.
In plain wordsIn patients with digestive fistulae, lanreotide increased the chance of reduced fistula output compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Lanreotide
- Outcome
- IncreaseFistula output response
- Study
n = 107
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Analysis
- Primary
- Outcome group
- Gastrointestinal protection · Gastrointestinal
- Studied dose
- 30 mg PR · intramuscular · Single first injection; outcome assessed within 72 hoursAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Responders
- 35 patients
- lanreotide
- Response rate
- 64.8%
- lanreotide
- Responders
- 20 patients
- placebo
- Response rate
- 37.7%
- placebo
- Response likelihood ratio
- 3.1 fold
- lanreotide versus placebo
- P
- 0.006
- reported result
Source sentences
Following the first double-blind injection, 35 of 54 patients (64.8%) on lanreotide were responders versus 20 of 53 (37.7%) on placebo, ie, a 3.1 times higher response likelihood on lanreotide compared with placebo (P = 0.006).
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Its effectiveness was assessed in patients with simple externalized digestive fistulae in a randomized, doubleblind, placebo-controlled study.
Patients demonstrating a reduction of at least 50% of fistula output within 72 hours after a first double-blind intramuscular injection of lanreotide or placebo were considered to be responders (primary end point)