Stool therapy may become a preferred treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile?

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 19, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 4635-4637

  Vyas, Dinesh ^a   L'Esperance, Heidi E ^a   Vyas, Arpita ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Enterocolitis; Fecal transplantation; Pseudomembranous; Vancomycin

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ERADICATION; ERUCTATION; FECAL THERAPY; FECES MICROFLORA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT INFECTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

EID: 84881076733     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i29.4635     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. van Nood E, Vrieze A, Nieuwdorp M, Fuentes S, Zoetendal EG, de Vos WM, Visser CE, Kuijper EJ, Bartelsman JF, Tijssen JG, Speelman P, Dijkgraaf MG, Keller JJ. Duodenal infusion of donor feces for recurrent Clostridium difficile. N Engl J Med 2013; 368: 407-415 [PMID: 23323867 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1205037]
2. Guo B, Harstall C, Louie T, Veldhuyzen van Zanten S, Dieleman LA. Systematic review: faecal transplantation for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2012; 35: 865-875 [PMID: 22360412 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2012.05033.x]
3. Wiström J, Norrby SR, Myhre EB, Eriksson S, Granström G, Lagergren L, Englund G, Nord CE, Svenungsson B. Frequency of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea in 2462 antibiotictreated hospitalized patients: a prospective study. J Antimicrob Chemother 2001; 47: 43-50 [PMID: 11152430]
4. Brandt LJ, Reddy SS. Fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent clostridium difficile infection. J Clin Gastroenterol 2011; 45 Suppl: S159-S167 [PMID: 21992957 DOI: 10.1097/ MCG.0b013e318222e603]
5. Bakken JS, Borody T, Brandt LJ, Brill JV, Demarco DC, Franzos MA, Kelly C, Khoruts A, Louie T, Martinelli LP, Moore TA, Russell G, Surawicz C. Treating Clostridium difficile infection with fecal microbiota transplantation. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2011; 9: 1044-1049 [PMID: 21871249 DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2011.08.014]
6. Gough E, Shaikh H, Manges AR. Systematic review of intestinal microbiota transplantation (fecal bacteriotherapy) for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. Clin Infect Dis 2011; 53: 994-1002 [PMID: 22002980 DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir632]
7. Surawicz CM, McFarland LV. Pseudomembranous colitis: causes and cures. Digestion 1999; 60: 91-100 [PMID: 10095149]
8. Fekety R, McFarland LV, Surawicz CM, Greenberg RN, Elmer GW, Mulligan ME. Recurrent Clostridium difficile diarrhea: characteristics of and risk factors for patients enrolled in a prospective, randomized, double-blinded trial. Clin Infect Dis 1997; 24: 324-333 [PMID: 9114180]
9. Borody TJ, Warren EF, Leis SM, Surace R, Ashman O, Siarakas S. Bacteriotherapy using fecal flora: toying with human motions. J Clin Gastroenterol 2004; 38: 475-483 [PMID: 15220681]
10. Walters BA, Roberts R, Stafford R, Seneviratne E. Relapse of antibiotic associated colitis: endogenous persistence of Clostridium difficile during vancomycin therapy. Gut 1983; 24: 206-212 [PMID: 6826104 DOI: 10.1136/gut.24.3.206]
11. Mattila E, Uusitalo-Seppälä R, Wuorela M, Lehtola L, Nurmi H, Ristikankare M, Moilanen V, Salminen K, Seppälä M, Mattila PS, Anttila VJ, Arkkila P. Fecal transplantation, through colonoscopy, is effective therapy for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. Gastroenterology 2012; 142: 490-496 [PMID: 22155369 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2011.11.037]
12. Kelly CP. Fecal microbiota transplantation--an old therapy comes of age. N Engl J Med 2013; 368: 474-475 [PMID: 23323865 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1214816]
13. Aas J, Gessert CE, Bakken JS. Recurrent Clostridium difficile colitis: case series involving 18 patients treated with donor stool administered via a nasogastric tube. Clin Infect Dis 2003; 36: 580-585 [PMID: 12594638 DOI: 10.1086/367657]
14. Kelly CR, de Leon L, Jasutkar N. Fecal microbiota transplantation for relapsing Clostridium difficile infection in 26 patients: methodology and results. J Clin Gastroenterol 2012; 46: 145-149 [PMID: 22157239 DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e318234570b]