C. difficile, a bacterial organism, may repeatedly cause potentially fatal diarrhea upon infecting individuals with microbial dysbiosis. The conventional approach to treating CDI includes antibiotics, ...

PHILADEPHIA — Both initial and sustained responses to fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) for the treatment of refractory C difficile infection remain high out to 18 months' follow-up, provided patients ...

A fecal transplant, as it's often called, is exactly what it sounds like. One person's, um, poop is put into another person's body. It works, scientists theorize, by re-introducing good microbes into ...

New research shows fecal transplants are effective treatment for C. difficile and irritable bowel disease, according to findings (pdf) presented at the annual meeting of the American College of ...

Four things you need to know: 1. A team of researchers led by Michael Bretthauer, MD, PhD, a gastroenterologist at the University of Oslo in Norway, conducted the study at six Norwegian hospitals ...

The procedure involves transplanting a stool sample from a healthy donor to treat C. difficile. One-quarter of patients who contract a C. difficile infection will have a recurrence, and those who do ...

HealthDay News — The vast majority of patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) recovered after receiving fecal transplantation via colonoscopy, study findings indicate. Among ...

Fecal transplantation through colonoscopy may be an effective treatment for recurrent C. difficile infections, according to research published in Gastroenterology. For this study, researchers reviewed ...

Q: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with antibiotics, ...

A fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) not only cured a case of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection in a 66 year old man; it eliminated populations of multi-drug resistant organisms both in the ...

Dear Doctors: I was sick for months with debilitating pain, extreme weight loss, fatigue and loss of appetite. I was diagnosed with C. diff related to an abdominal surgery. I’m being treated with ...

Minnie Hatch, 29, from Salt Lake City, had painful stomach cramps, and other symptoms for months before finding out she had Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff. These bacteria can grow out of control ...