# Effect Comparison of Electro-acupuncture and Prucalopride for Severe Chronic Constipation: a Randomized Controlled Trial

> **NCT02047045** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences** · enrollment: 560 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Constipation

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** acupuncture
- **DRUG:** Prucalopride

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02047045
- **Lead sponsor:** Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2014-04
- **Primary completion:** 2016-08
- **Final completion:** 2017-05
- **Target enrollment:** 560 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2021-03-22

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02047045

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02047045, "Effect Comparison of Electro-acupuncture and Prucalopride for Severe Chronic Constipation: a Randomized Controlled Trial". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-02 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02047045. Licensed CC0.

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