An unusual treatment: Intractable hiccups
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Baclofen in the treatment of intractable hiccups.
Availability of a large number of drugs/remedies for the management of hiccups suggests that all the available drugs are not effective in all the patients. Baclofen was successful in relieving the intractable hiccups where all other known drugs of hiccup were unable to provide relief.
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.319.7215.976