NCT01215708

Effects of the Use of Adjuvant Drugs After Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy (ESWL) in Renal Calculus

Effect of Tamsulosin and Nifedipine on the Elimination of Fragments After Extracorporeal Shock Waves Lithotripsy in Patients With Kidney Stones - a Prospective, Double-blind and Randomized Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 136 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators objective is to study if some drugs can improve the success rate of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy for renal stones.

Detailed description

Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy is one of the modalities of treatment of renal stones. It´s a machine that breaks the renal stones extracorporeally. Some drugs, like alpha blockers and calcium channel blockers, can improve the success rates of this procedure. Our objective is to study the real effects of two drugs, tamsulosin and nifedipine, compared to placebo, in the elimination of fragments after the extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy treatment.

Conditions

• Renal Calculi

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Tamsulosin	tamsulosin 0,4mg every night for 30 consecutive days

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-08-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2010-10-06
• Last updated: 2010-10-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil