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NCT05966246

The Effect of Prucalopride Succinate on Gastrointestinal Motility After Laparoscopic Gastrectomy : Prospective Double Blind Case-control Study

Completed NA Last updated 18 August 2023
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Arm I : Experimental (Prucalopride succinate group) in Gastric Cancer in 106 participants. Completed in 30 June 2023.

Timeline
25 January 2022
Primary endpoint
30 June 2023
30 June 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsorGangnam Severance Hospital
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationrandomized
Designparallel
Maskingtriple
Primary purposetreatment
Enrollment106
Start date25 January 2022
Primary completion30 June 2023
Estimated completion30 June 2023
Sites1 location across South Korea

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Gangnam Severance Hospital

Who can join

Adults 19 to 80, any sex, with Gastric Cancer. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

In order to improve postoperative ileus in patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery, digestive medications and prokinetics have been routinely used. Among them, mosapride citrate is widely used as a representative drug, as it is a 5-hydroxytryptamine 4 receptor agonist that increases gastrointestinal motility. Prucalopride succinate (dihydrobenzofurancarboxamide) is a type of 5-hydroxytryptamine 4 receptor agonist that has a higher affinity for the 5-HT4 receptor compared to mosapride (a benzamide derivative) which belongs to the same class of drugs. Prucalopride succinate has been demonstrated to increase both gastric and colonic motility through in vivo and in vitro studies. As mentioned earlier, it exhibits high specificity for the 5-HT4 receptor. The 5-HT4 receptor is not expressed in the gastric mucosa but is expressed at low concentrations in the small intestine, whereas it is highly expressed in the colonic mucosa. Therefore, prucalopride is widely used as a therapeutic agent for chronic constipation by increasing colonic motility. Furthermore, Prucalopride succinate stimulates the 5-HT4 receptors present in the nerve terminals of the myenteric plexus, promoting the release of acetylcholine. The released acetylcholine acts on α7nAch receptors located on the surface of enteric smooth muscle cells, inhibiting inflammatory responses and reducing postoperative ilues. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted on 110 patients who underwent gastrointestinal surgery demonstrated that prucalopride succinate showed significant improvement in gastrointestinal motility compared to the control group. Currently, mosapride citrate is widely used as a prokinetic agent in clinical practice. However, preliminary studies have shown no significant efficacy, and when comparing abdominal X-ray images taken on the third day after surgery, there is no significant difference compared to the placebo group. As a result, it can be observed that the recovery of gastrointestinal motility after surgery is not primarily due to small bowel motility but rather delayed gas passing caused by colon motility. Therefore, it can be assumed that using drugs that increase colon motility may be effective in improving gastrointestinal motility after surgery.

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