Mini-Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Treatment of Clostridium difficile Proctitis Following Total Colectomy | Zendy

Robert Orenstein | Zendy; K L King | Zendy; Roberto L. Patron | Zendy; John K. DiBaise | Zendy; David A. Etzioni | Zendy

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Mini-Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Treatment of Clostridium difficile Proctitis Following Total Colectomy

Author(s) -

Robert Orenstein,

K L King,

Roberto L. Patron,

John K. DiBaise,

David A. Etzioni

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/cix736

Subject(s) - medicine , clostridium difficile , fecal bacteriotherapy , colectomy , fulminant , proctitis , rectum , gastroenterology , feces , total colectomy , surgery , ulcerative colitis , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , disease , biology

Rarely, in fulminant Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), the rectal stump is persistently infected following total abdominal colectomy. We report cure of a septic patient with proctitis by fecal microbiota transplant via rectal swabs (mini-FMT). This novel procedure offers a management option for recurrent CDI following total abdominal colectomy.

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