Fecal Microbiota Transplantation - New England Journal of Medicine Reports 94% Cure Rate for C-difficile
The results of a randomized controlled study has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week which showed a 94% cure rate for clostridium difficile as opposed to 31% of patients taking the antibiotic vancomycin. The study was stopped prematurely becase the results were so outstanding for those who were given fecal transplant that it was considered to be unethical not to offer the treatment to all patients participating in the study. Read more below courtesy of the New England Journal.nbsp; Here is a link to the study: Duodenal Infusion of Donor Feces for Recurrent Clostridium difficile — NEJM and a link to the editorial written by Ciarán P. Kelly, M.D. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation — An Old Therapy Comes of Age — NEJM "Fecal Microbiota Transplantation — An Old Therapy Comes of Age Ciarán P. Kelly, M.D. January 16, 2013 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1214816 In 1958, doctors in Denver administered feces by enema to their patients with fulminant, life-...