Reduction of Postoperative Pain After Milligan-Morgan Haemorrhoidectomy With Application of Vitamin E Ointment

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

A prospective ranfomized clinical study of patients undergoing Milligan Morgan´s haemorrhoidectomy at Hospital Universitario Rey Juan Carlos (Móstoles-Spain) will be performed. The patients will be randomized into 2 groups:

• Experimental group (EG): Patients undergoing Milligan Morgan´s procedure and application of Vitamin E ointment on the surgical bed.

• Control group (CG): Patients undergoing Milligan Morgan´s procedure and application of Vaseline on the surgical bed.

Postoperative pain determined by VAS at the 1st, 3rd and 7th postoperative days, and need for morphine rescue will be investigated.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hospital General Universitario Elche
• Treatments: alpha-Tocopherol; Petrolatum; Tocopherols; Tocotrienols; Vitamin E; Vitamins

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients undergoing Milligan Morgan´s haemorrhoidectomy at Hospital Universitario Rey Juan Carlos (Móstoles-Spain).

• Haemorrhoids grade III and IV

• The patients sign an Informed Consent Form agreeing their participation in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients undergoing other surgical techniques for haemorrhoidectomy, different tan Milligan Morgan

• Haemorrhoids grade I and II

• Patients with medical or surgical pathologies that do not allow the participation in the study

• Disability to understand and accept the entry in the study