Results: Each patient served as his or her own control, having failed standard treatment. After exclusions,
the case series included 75 FMT courses administered to 74 patients. Fifty-nine FMT courses resulted in
clinical resolution of diarrhea for a primary cure rate of 79%. Diarrhea relapsed following 16 FMT courses;
in 9 of these cases diarrhea subsequently resolved after a single course of vancomycin. No adverse events
were noted.
Conclusions: Our findings parallel findings from other studies when FMT has been provided via the upper
GI tract, and suggest that patients with recurrent CDI may resolve diarrhea by introducing stool from
healthy donors into the upper GI tract via nasogastric tube.