Effect of terazosin on lower urinary tract symptoms and pain due to double-J stent: A double-blind placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-21

  Mokhtari, Gholamreza ^a   Shakiba, Maryam ^a   Ghodsi, Sara ^a   Farzan, Alireza ^a   Heidari Nejad, Sayeh ^a   Esmaeili, Samaneh ^a  

^a GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Flank pain; Hematuria; Internal stent; Nocturia; Terazosin

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TERAZOSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSURIA; EVENING DOSAGE; FLANK PAIN; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYDROURETER; LITHOTRIPSY; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; NOCTURIA; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER STENT; URETER STONE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FLANK PAIN; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; IRAN; NOCTURIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRAZOSIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETERAL CALCULI; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 80051784516     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: 14230399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323855     Document Type: Article

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