With the increasing prevalence of recurrent/refractory Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), alternative treatments to the standard antibiotic therapies are being sought. One of the more controversial of such alternative treatments is fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). Although the notion of FMT is foreign-even startling-and not esthetic to most people, the concept has been around for man...

The past year has seen major therapeutic advances in gastroenterology and hepatology. Two areas with notable gains are related to infectious diseases: novel treatments directed against recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and against the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Clostridium difficile infection is an infectious colitis with high associated morbidity and mortality. Broad-spectrum antib...

Halkjær et al searched systematically nine articles including 48 patients, and concluded that fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) can be an ideal treatment option for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) subjects. Regardless of the few successes in current traditional therapies (change in diet, herbal medicine and antibiotics) in IBS, a sharp increase in interests in the FMT option has been report...

In this paper, a novel wireless transmission system is proposed. The system is composed of two cascaded subsystem: an inner filtered multitone (FMT) modulator with transmission over multiple antennas, and an outer Single carrier cyclic prefix (SCCP) system. The FMT modulator can efficiently avoid the inter-carrier interference, and with multiple antennas the cyclic delay diversity (CDD) can inc...

Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) represents one of the most common healthcare-associated infections. Due to increasing numbers of recurrences and therapy failures, CDI has become a major disease burden. Studies have shown that fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) can both be a safe and highly efficacious therapy for patients with therapy-refractory CDI. However, patients undergoing solid...

(1) Background: Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an effective treatment for ulcerative colitis (UC). Metabolomic techniques would assist physicians in clinical decision-making. (2) Methods: Patients with active UC undergoing FMT were enrolled the study and monitored 3 months. We explored short-term changes serum metabolic signatures of groups association between baseline metabolomic pr...