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Successful faecal microbiota transplant for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection delivered by colonoscopy through a diverted ileostomy in a patient with severe perianal Crohn’s disease

Summary

We present the first reported case of successful treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection with faecal microbiota transplantation delivered antegrade with a colonoscope through a diverting ileostomy.

  • endoscopy
  • infection (gastroenterology)

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-222958

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