title: Results of the intravenous administration of tropisetron in fibromyalgia patients.
abstract: The observed effects on the symptoms of fibromyalgia of daily oral administration of 5 mg of the 5-HT3 receptor antagonist, tropisetron, for 10 days, could be maintained or exceeded with intravenous administration of only 2 mg of the formulation. Following a single i.v. injection of 2 mg tropisetron, a more rapid and profound reduction in pain was achieved than with 5 mg oral tropisetron per day. In individual cases, patients who had previously experienced no reduction in pain from 10 days of 5 mg oral tropisetron daily responded to i.v. therapy. A more favourable and persistent effect on pain, combined with a simultaneous significant improvement in various vegetative and functional symptoms was achieved with five days treatment with 2 mg tropisetron i.v. per day. The results outlined and the possibility for rapid improvements with drug treatment of fibromyalgia should be confirmed in randomised, placebo controlled trials.
authors.affiliation: Hochrhein-Institut, Rheumaklinik, Bad Säckingen, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Stratz
mesh_terms: D000284:Administration, Oral; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007211:Indoles / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010147:Pain Measurement; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000077526:Tropisetron
chemical_list: D007211:Indoles; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists; D000077526:Tropisetron