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Review: smooth muscle relaxants improve symptoms and reduce pain in irritable bowel syndrome

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebm.6.5.153

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    (2001) Aliment Pharmacol Ther 15, 355. Poynard T, Regimbeau C, Benhamou Y.. Meta-analysis of smooth muscle relaxants in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome.. Feb;. :. –61.
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 QUESTION: In patients with the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), are smooth muscle relaxants safe and efficacious for global improvement of symptoms?

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    Randomised controlled trials were identified by searching Medline with the terms colonic disease, functional, irritable bowel syndrome, and randomised trial; Current Contents; and bibliographies of relevant trials, meta-analyses, and reviews. Drug companies were also contacted.

    Study selection

    Trials were selected if they were double blind studies that compared muscle relaxants with placebo, ≥51% of patients had IBS, the drugs studied had myorelaxant properties, and ≥1 end point of global assessment of symptoms, abdominal pain, constipation, or abdominal distension was included.

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    • Source of funding: in part, Solvay Pharmaceutical Company.

    • For correspondence: Dr T Poynard, Service d'Hépato-Gastroentérologie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtriére 47– 83, Boulevard de l'Hôpital 75651, Cedex 13, Paris, France. Fax +33 140 77 9596.