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Patients also found MoviPrep to be more tolerable and were more willing to repeat it
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Tara Haelle, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
October 29, 2024
Last Updated
November 7, 2024
The low-volume bowel preparation MoviPrep provided a noninferior alternative to the standard high-volume GoLYTELY in a cohort of hospitalized patients undergoing colonoscopy, a randomized trial showed.
Of the 412 patients analyzed, 55% in the MoviPrep group had adequate bowel preparation compared with 52.9% of those in the GoLYTELY group (P=0.007), reported Karen Xiao, MD, of Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, at the American College of Gastroenterology annual meeting in Philadelphia.
“MoviPrep may be appropriate as an alternative to traditional high-volume bowel preparation in hospitalized patients undergoing colonoscopy,” Xiao said, with patients in the MoviPrep group reporting “higher tolerability and willingness to repeat colonoscopy preparation in the future.”
Significantly more patients found MoviPrep to be “easy” (29%) or “acceptable” (39.8%) compared with GoLYTELY (13.1% and 30.2%, respectively; P
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