Any Future for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation as Treatment Strategy for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases?

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 74-81

  Kump, Patrizia ^a   Högenauer, Christoph ^a  

^a BIOTECHMED GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Crohn's disease; Fecal microbiota transplantation; Inflammatory bowel disease; Intestinal microbiome; Stool transplantation; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CROHN DISEASE; DONOR SELECTION; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; ILEITIS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REMISSION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREND STUDY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; FECES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; POUCHITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS;

CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; DONOR SELECTION; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; FECES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; POUCHITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84984655281     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: 14219875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000447379     Document Type: Article

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