We treated a total of 12 patients with FMT over the last 3 years.
Table 1 shows the details of their presentation. Our patients
ranged in age from 37 to 92 years. Follow-up on our patients
ranged from 2–30 months. All our patients had recurrent
disease and were not responding to the standard therapy for
CDI. Patients’ symptoms resolved within 48 hours of receiving
FMT, in all but one patient. This patient was initially treated
for a perforated appendix with antibiotics and developed CDI
from the long-term treatment. She was then treated for CDI,
but failed to respond to treatment during 6 months of antibiotic
therapy. She became septic, went into shock, and was admitted
to the intensive care unit (ICU) for further management. FMT
was done as an emergency treatment by one of the physicians at
our hospital. The donor was the husband who had been tending
after this patient, in close contact, for the 6 months prior to the
FMT. He refused to be stool tested prior to the procedure in
order to allow the procedure to be done as soon as possible. The
patient failed to respond to this treatment and required a repeat
FMT. The second time around a healthy volunteer donor was
selected because we believed the husband was a carrier. This
could explain the lack of response from the first treatment. The
patient responded to the second FMT and improved enough
to be sent back to a nursing home for care. The second FMT
was done by nasoduodenal route using a nasoduodenal tube.
Unfortunately, at the nursing home this patient developed a
urinary tract infection (UTI) after a few months and was treated
We treated a total of 12 patients with FMT over the last 3 years.
Table 1 shows the details of their presentation. Our patients
ranged in age from 37 to 92 years. Follow-up on our patients
ranged from 2–30 months. All our patients had recurrent
disease and were not responding to the standard therapy for
CDI. Patients’ symptoms resolved within 48 hours of receiving
FMT, in all but one patient. This patient was initially treated
for a perforated appendix with antibiotics and developed CDI
from the long-term treatment. She was then treated for CDI,
but failed to respond to treatment during 6 months of antibiotic
therapy. She became septic, went into shock, and was admitted
to the intensive care unit (ICU) for further management. FMT
was done as an emergency treatment by one of the physicians at
our hospital. The donor was the husband who had been tending
after this patient, in close contact, for the 6 months prior to the
FMT. He refused to be stool tested prior to the procedure in
order to allow the procedure to be done as soon as possible. The
patient failed to respond to this treatment and required a repeat
FMT. The second time around a healthy volunteer donor was
selected because we believed the husband was a carrier. This
could explain the lack of response from the first treatment. The
patient responded to the second FMT and improved enough
to be sent back to a nursing home for care. The second FMT
was done by nasoduodenal route using a nasoduodenal tube.
Unfortunately, at the nursing home this patient developed a
urinary tract infection (UTI) after a few months and was treated
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