A multi-centre, double-blind study of serrapeptase versus placebo in post-antrotomy buccal swelling

A multi-centre, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was carried out to investigate the clinical efficacy of the anti-inflammatory enzyme serrapeptase in a total of 174 patients who underwent Caldwell-Luc antrotomy for chronic empyema. Eighty-eight patients received 10 mg serrapeptase 3 times on t...

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Publié dans:Interim guidelines for the control of infections with Vero cytotoxin producing Escherichia coli (VTEC). Subcommittee of the PHLS Working Group on Vero cytotoxin producing Escherichia coli (VTEC). - 1995. - 3(1984), 8 vom: 15., Seite 526-30
Auteur principal: Tachibana, M (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Mizukoshi, O, Harada, Y, Kawamoto, K, Nakai, Y
Format: Article
Langue:English
Publié: 1984
Accès à la collection:Interim guidelines for the control of infections with Vero cytotoxin producing Escherichia coli (VTEC). Subcommittee of the PHLS Working Group on Vero cytotoxin producing Escherichia coli (VTEC)
Sujets:Clinical Trial Journal Article Randomized Controlled Trial Anti-Inflammatory Agents Peptide Hydrolases EC 3.4.- serratiopeptidase NL053ABE4J
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Résumé:A multi-centre, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was carried out to investigate the clinical efficacy of the anti-inflammatory enzyme serrapeptase in a total of 174 patients who underwent Caldwell-Luc antrotomy for chronic empyema. Eighty-eight patients received 10 mg serrapeptase 3 times on the day before operation, once on the night of the operation and 3 times daily for 5 days after operation; the other 86 received placebo. Changes in buccal swelling after operation were observed as a parameter of the response to treatment. The degree of swelling in the serrapeptase-treated patients was significantly less than that in the placebo-treated patients at every point of observation after operation up to the 5th day (p less than 0.01 to p less than 0.05). Maximal swelling throughout all the post-operative points of observation was also significantly smaller in size in the serrapeptase-treated group than in the placebo-treated group. No side-effects were reported
Description:Date Completed 11.04.1984
Date Revised 08.04.2022
published: Print
Citation Status MEDLINE