Successful treatment of chronic hiccup with baclofen in cancer patients.

نویسندگان

M Metin Seker

Sercan Aksoy

Nuriye Yıldırım Ozdemir

Doğan Uncu

Burak Civelek

M Bülent Akıncı

Nurullah Zengin

چکیده

Chronic hiccup is an infrequent but distressing symptom in patients with advanced cancer. A series of drugs (chlorpromazine, haloperidol, nifedipine, metoclopramide, baclofen) have been used to treat hiccup without definitive results. Some authors have suggested a possible role of baclofen in the treatment of chronic hiccup. We report three cases of chronic hiccup in patients with cancer successfully treated with baclofen.

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