Treating Anorectal Dysfunction in MS
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Official title
Treating Anorectal Dysfunction Associated With Multiple Sclerosis
Brief summary
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The investigators seek to test whether incorporating the scheduled dosing of a bisacodyl 10 mg rectal suppository every other day improves bowel-related symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis. Patients will be randomized to receive either a placebo suppository or bisacodyl suppository dosed every other day for 4 weeks.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02609607
- Recruitment status
- Terminated
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Enrollment
- 11 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 80 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- May 31, 2016
- Primary completion
- Oct 31, 2018
- Completion
- Nov 30, 2018
- Last update posted
- Jan 21, 2020
2016 – 2018
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15213 | — |
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- Last update posted Jan 21, 2020 · Synced Sep 6, 2026
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