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FMT transplants have a very high success rate for treating C Diff infections that don't respond to antibiotics. Something like 70-80% success.

• taf2 8y ago
  Source?
  • curtis 8y ago
    Fecal Transplantation for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection in Older Adults: A Review - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jgs.12378 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jgs.12378 Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Clostridium difficile Infection: A Systematic Review - https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2288521/fecal-microbiota-transplantation-clostridium-difficile-infection-systematic-review?doi=10.7326%2fM14-2693 https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2288521/fecal-microb... I just cribbed these from the Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridioides_difficile_infection#Stool_transplant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridioides_difficile_infec... so I don't know if there's better or more recent studies.
  • carbocation 8y ago
    Here is a comparison of capsule-based FMT versus colonoscopy-based FMT, in which either approach had a (very) high success rate. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=29183074 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=29183074
• GeekyBear 8y ago
  The numbers I've seen are higher than that. The Mayo Clinic has posted numbers for a couple of different clinic locations that have seen a a 90% success rate. https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/digestive-diseases/news/fmt-demonstrates-consistently-high-success-rates-for-recurrent-cdi/mac-20429966 https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/digestive-d...