Abstract
Twenty-eight children with primary nocturnal enuresis were blindly allocated at random to a combination of enuresis alarm and 20 μg intranasal desmopressin or alarm and placebo for 2 weeks. Patients received the other therapy after a 2-week treatment-free period. The combined treatment of desmopressin and alarm showed 5.1±0.4 (mean ± SEM) dry nights per week and resulted in significantly more dry nights per week during the 2 weeks of observation than placebo and alarm (4.1±0.4,P<0.05)
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Abbreviations
- DDAVP:
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desmopressin
- SEM:
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standard error of mean
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Sukhai, R.N., Mol, J. & Harris, A.S. Combined therapy of enuresis alarm and desmopressin in the treatment of nocturnal enuresis. Eur J Pediatr 148, 465–467 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00595916
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