Sentences with phrase «faecal transplant»

As a result of the untreated C - Diff (finally cured with faecal transplant) her body over produced antibodies to fight the C - Diff and now those antibodies are pooling in her ankle and knee as they are the weakened spots on her body due to sprains and surgeries (skier).

The faecal transplant, also known as trans - poo - sion, surely has the title of medicine's most disgusting procedure.

«The faecal transplant is fairly disgusting but it works really well,» says Emma Allen - Vercoe at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

«In certain cases, people require reseeding of their intestines with healthy bacteria by faecal transplant — a process where intestinal bacteria is transplanted to a sick person from a healthy individual,» Professor Belz said.

The technique, known as a faecal transplant, is thought to pass beneficial bacteria from the gut of a healthy individual to a sickly one.

As regulators struggle to classify faecal transplants, people are doing it themselves to ease symptoms of colitis, Parkinson's disease and even autism

This article appeared in print under the headline «Stomach this... faecal transplants reveal gut bug menace»

Your special report on faecal transplants (1 March, p 10) mentioned «a nasogastric tube, which runs from the nose down...

«Faecal transplants have been heralded as a wonderful thing... but we don't know what the long - term consequences are,» she says.

Faecal transplants reveal how gut bacteria have an important role to play in the onset and treatment of a form of malnutrition called kwashiorkor

Transplanting bacteria cultured from healthy human faeces can provide an alternative treatment to faecal transplants for people with chronic infection

Not exact matches

Reetta Satokari's group has an interesting ongoing project where they look at the effects of faecal microbiota transplant on antibiotic resistance genes detected in the patient's microbiota.

Reetta Satokari's group and the hospital clinicians have in collaboration created a unique «faecal bank» where the tested transplants are kept.

«Our review looked at taking probiotics, prebiotics, changing the diet — for example, to gluten - and casein - free diets, and faecal matter transplants.

Liver cirrhosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, with complications such as HE resulting in recurrent emergency hospitalizations, irreversible brain injury, and a poor prognosis.2 - 5 There is some evidence that HE patients have a reduced relative abundance of certain beneficial gut microbiota (e.g. Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae) and an enrichment of potentially pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae ¬ - a microbial profile that has been linked to cognitive impairment and systemic inflammation in cirrhotic patients with HE.1 Faecal microbiota transplants have been used successfully to correct dysbiotic conditions such as recurrent Clostridium difficile and ulcerative colitis,6 - 8 and a preliminary report suggested that FMT may be promising in the management of HE.9

Faecal microbiota transplant: a novel biological approach to extensively drug - resistant organism - related non-relapse mortality — Innes AJ — Bone Marrow Transplantation