Alfuzosin fails to improve prostatitis

12 January 2009

French drug major Sanofi-Aventis' Uroxatral (alfuzosin) failed to significantly reduce symptoms in recently-diagnosed men with chronic  prostatitis who had not been previously treated with this drug,  according to a clinical trial sponsored by the US National Institutes of  Health.

The primary outcome of the study, which is due to be published in the  New England Journal of Medicine, was a decrease in the NIH Chronic  Prostatitis Symptom Index of at least four points over 12 weeks of  treatment. A four-point decrease in the NIH-CPSI score has been shown to  be the minimal clinically-significant difference.

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