Sentences with phrase «performed fecal microbiota»

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The procedure of transferring stool to a patient — technically called fecal microbiota transplantation — was first performed in the United States in 1958 to treat an intractable case of C. difficile colitis, a gastrointestinal condition caused when the balance of microbes in the gut — called the microbiome — is destabilized or destroyed.

After the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, performed its first fecal microbiota transplant in 2011, a patient who had been bed - ridden for weeks left the hospital 24 hours later.