Gastroenterologie
a hepatologie

Cinitaprid expands treatment options for functional dyspepsia

Jiří Slíva¹

+ Affiliation
¹ Ústav farmakologie 3. LF UK, Praha

Summary

Treatment of functional dyspepsia is often medically difficult and requires a comprehensive approach, including the drug group prokinetics. In the Czech Republic, it is now being expanded to include the active substance cinitapride. The presented text summarizes its basic pharmacological properties and summarizes the available relevant aspects of its clinical use.

Keywords

functional dyspepsia, prokinetics, cinitapride

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