Safety, Tolerability, and Clinical Response After Fecal Transplantation in Children and Young Adults With Ulcerative Colitis

Kunde, Sachin; Pham, Angela; Bonczyk, Sarah; Crumb, Teri; Duba, Meg; Conrad, H; Cloney, Deborah; Kugathasan, Subra

doi:10.1097/mpg.0b013e318292fa0d

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Safety, Tolerability, and Clinical Response After Fecal Transplantation in Children and Young Adults With Ulcerative Colitis

Published in Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition • Mar 29, 2013

Authors:

Sachin Kunde

Angela Pham

Sarah Bonczyk

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Colonic dysbiosis contributes to the development of colonic inflammation in ulcerative colitis (UC). Fecal microbial transplantation (FMT) is being proposed as a novel treatment for UC because it can eliminate dysbiosis; however, no prospective data exist. We initiated a pi...

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Medicine

Ulcerative colitis

Tolerability

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