In patients with short bowel intestinal failure receiving teduglutide, 35% reported headache.
In plain wordsIn patients with short bowel intestinal failure receiving teduglutide, 35% reported headache.
- Peptide
- Teduglutide
- Outcome
- Not applicableHeadache
- Study
n = 52
- Outcome group
- Adverse events · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- 0.05 or 0.10 mg/kg/d · 52 weeksAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Patients reporting headache
- 35%
- headache, all teduglutide patients
Source sentences
The most common adverse events reported included headache (35%), nausea (31%), and abdominal pain (25%); 7 patients withdrew because of adverse events (gastrointestinal disorders in 4).
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Patients who received teduglutide (0.05 or 0.10 mg/kg/d) for 24 weeks in a randomized controlled trial were eligible for a 28-week double-blind extension study; 52 patients were given 52 weeks of the same doses of teduglutide.
We investigated the safety, tolerability, and clinical efficacy (defined as a clinically meaningful ≥20% reduction in weekly PN volume from baseline) at week 52.