Oxycodone-naloxone in Relieving Opioid-related Constipation

Summary

The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate that subjects with moderate to severe non-malignant pain taking oxycodone/naloxone prolonged release tablets have improvement in symptoms of constipation compared to subjects taking oxycodone prolonged release tablets alone.

Timeline

Start

2006-01

Primary completion

2008-04

Completion

2008-06

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper A significant improvement in BFI scores occurred with oxycodone PR/naloxone PR compared with oxycodone PR after 4 weeks of double-blind treatment PMID 19032132 ↗

Publications

• Lowenstein O, Leyendecker P, Lux EA, Blagden M, Simpson KH, Hopp M, Bosse B, Reimer K. Efficacy and safety of combined prolonged-release oxycodone and naloxone in the management of moderate/severe chronic non-malignant pain: results of a prospectively designed pooled analysis of two randomised, double-blind clinical trials. BMC Clin Pharmacol. 2010 Sep 29;10:12. doi: 10.1186/1472-6904-10-12.
• Simpson K, Leyendecker P, Hopp M, Muller-Lissner S, Lowenstein O, De Andres J, Troy Ferrarons J, Bosse B, Krain B, Nichols T, Kremers W, Reimer K. Fixed-ratio combination oxycodone/naloxone compared with oxycodone alone for the relief of opioid-induced constipation in moderate-to-severe noncancer pain. Curr Med Res Opin. 2008 Dec;24(12):3503-12. doi: 10.1185/03007990802584454.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.