The Efficacy of Tamsulosin in the Treatment of Ureteral Stones in Emergency Department Patients

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Kidney Stones, Ureteral Stones

In brief

To determine if emergency department patients with acute ureteral colic pain due to a ureteral stone who are treated with tamsulosin, versus placebo, will experience a shorter time to passage of their stone or resolution of their pain. A secondary study objective will be to determine if there is a relationship between response to tamsulosin and stone size or position in the ureter.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00448123

Run by

Robert Swor

People needed

127

Starts

2007-02-01

Expected to finish

2011-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-10-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Emergency Department patients with acutely symptomatic renal colic pain
• Confirmation of a symptomatic stone will be made by imaging (helical CT scan or intravenous pyelogram).

You may not qualify if…

• Stones not documented on imaging
• Stones >10mm
• Pregnancy
• Age <18 years
• Evidence of infection with an obstructing stone
• Obstructing stone in a solitary kidney
• Currently taking tamsulosin, vardenafil, nifedipine, or steroids
• Contraindications or allergy to tamsulosin
• Ureteral surgery
• Patients that are unable to understand consent
• Patients that are unable to comply with follow-up

Where it is running

• William Beaumont Hospital — Royal Oak, Michigan, United States

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