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Pantoprazole is a new substituted benzimidazole, which is a potent inhibitor of gastric acid secretion by its inhibition of H+,K+-ATPase. Pantoprazole, 40 mg, was compared with the H2-receptor antagonist ranitidine, 300 mg, in the healing of acute duodenal ulcer. Two hundred seventy-six patients with endoscopically diagnosed duodenal ulcer were studied in this multicenter double-blind study. Patients were reendoscopied after two weeks of treatment, and those patients whose ulcers remained unhealed were also endoscoped after an additional two weeks of treatment. The primary end point was the complete healing of the ulcer. Demographic characteristics were comparable in both treatment groups. After two weeks of treatment, 90/124 (73%) patients in the pantoprazole group had healed ulcers compared with 57/126 (45%) patients in the ranitidine group (P<0.001, per-protocol analysis). After four weeks, the cumulative healing rates were 92% and 84% in the pantoprazole and ranitidine groups, respectively (P=0.073). Symptoms were also improved at week 2, with 84% and 72% of patients in the pantoprazole and ranitidine groups, respectively, reporting no ulcer pain (P<0.05, per-protocol analysis). Both treatments were well tolerated. This study has confirmed the superiority of pantoprazole compared with ranitidine in the healing of duodenal ulcers and pain relief after two weeks of treatment and has shown pantoprazole to be well tolerated in this indication.
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This study was sponsored by Byk Gulden, D-78467 Konstanz, Germany.
Members of the European Pantoprazole Study Group: Belgium—J. Belaiche, M. Cremer, G, Devis, and A. Elewaut; France—M. Amouretti, M.-A. Bigard, G. Bommelaer, J.-A. Chayvialle, J. Escourrou, Y. Le Quintrec, J.-C. Paris, P. Rampal, J. Sahel, and J.-P. Weill; Italy—F. De Berardinis, G. Delle Fave, M. Frezza, G. Marenco, F. Mazzeo, G. Minoli, A. Saggioro, and S. Vigneri; and The Netherlands—J. Beker, W. Driessen, C. Lamers, and D. Versluis.
This work was presented as a poster at the symposium: Management of Acid-Related Diseases: Focus on Pantoprazole, held in Berlin, May 1993.
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Cremer, M., Lambert, R., Lamers, C.B.H.W. et al. A double-blind study of pantoprazole and ranitidine in treatment of acute duodenal ulcer. Digest Dis Sci 40, 1360–1364 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02065552
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