Are Solifenacin and Ramosetron Really Ideal to Treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome?: Author's Reply
Author(s) -
Hidekazu Suzuki,
Juntaro Matsuzaki
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of neurogastroenterology and motility
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.345
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2093-0887
pISSN - 2093-0879
DOI - 10.5056/jnm.2012.18.4.459
Subject(s) - medicine , irritable bowel syndrome , ideal (ethics) , lubiprostone , solifenacin , gastroenterology , psychotherapist , alternative medicine , constipation , pathology , overactive bladder , psychology , philosophy , chronic constipation , epistemology
The overall im-provement was assessed on the basis of the patients’ subjective re-ports during their interview regarding whether the symptoms had improved, compared to before administering solifenacin. Since the overall improvement is an established index often used in de-termining the therapeutic efficacy of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), we do not think that the extremely high efficacy of sol-ifenacin in our paper
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