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

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

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.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Robert Swor
• Collaborator: William Beaumont Hospitals
• Treatments: Tamsulosin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 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).

Exclusion Criteria:

• 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