Evaluation of Pain Reduction After Hemorrhoidectomy With Use of Diltiazim Ointment 2%

Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

Pain

Treatments

Drug: Diltiazem

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00893100

724

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of diltiazem ointment 2 percent in reducing pain after hemorrhoidectomy.

Full description

Pain after hemorrhoidectomy remains a major postsurgical complication.Therefore pain management in patients is an important goal.Many studies have focused on surgical techniques,preoperative and postoperative regimes.We assessed a randomised double blind placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the effect of diltiazem ointment after surgery.

Enrollment

1 patient

Sex

All

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with grade 3 or 4 hemorrhoid who underwent Milligan-Morgan surgery.

Exclusion criteria

Patients with a history of heart disease, blood pressure, orthostatic hypertension, hemorrhoidal surgery,or those who had previous adverse effect from calcium channel blocker drugs and also those who were pregnant.