Expanded Evidence for Frozen Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Clostridium difficile Infection: A Fresh Take

By transplanting donor stool into a patient with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) restores the colonic microbiota to a more healthy state. Although the procedure initially received slow acceptance, FMT is performed routinely today, especially after recent data demonstrating efficacy of FMT for recurrent CDI. At present, the best evidence for FMT is for recurrent CDI, although there's increasing evidence for use in severe, complicated, and refractory CDI. Malani and Rao comment on Lee and colleagues' study that presents the results of a randomized noninferiority trial conducted at 6 academic medical centers in Canada comparing frozen and thawed FMT with fresh FMT to treat patients with multiply recurrent CDI or refractory CDI..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:315

Enthalten in:

The journal of the American Medical Association / Englische Ausgabe - 315(2016), 2, Seite 137

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rao, Krishna [VerfasserIn]
Malani, Preeti N [Sonstige Person]

Links:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Themen:

Bacterial infections
Clinical trials
Diarrhea - therapy
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - therapy
Feces
Transplants & implants

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1970562269