The power of poop: Patients getting ahead of their doctors using self-administered fecal transplants

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 777-778

  Swaminath, Arun ^a  

^a LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENEMA; MESALAZINE;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; CROHN ILEOCOLITIS; DIARRHEA; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FECES MICROFLORA TRANSPLANT; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; LETTER; MALE; MICROBIOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM INFLAMMATION; SUPPOSITORY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; CROHN DISEASE; ENEMA; FECES; HUMANS; MALE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84899866083     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2014.68     Document Type: Letter

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