Intravenous Indomethacin and Oxycone‐papaverine in the Treatment of Acute Renal Colic. A Double‐blind Study

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Abstract
In a prospective double-blind, cross-over study, 61 patients with acute renal colic were treated with either indomethacin (50 mg) or oxycone-papaverine (5 mg+50 mg) administered intravenously. For those patients requiring a second injection the drugs were reversed. The intensity of pain was evaluated before and 20 min after each injection according to an analogue visual scale 0 to 100. Both drug regimens provided comparable and significant pain relief; a pain score of < 20 appeared to be satisfactory and was achieved in almost all cases.