Bacterial communities from subjects treated for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (rCDI) by fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), using either heterologous donor stool samples or autologous stool samples, were characterized by Illumina next-generation sequencing. As previously reported, the success of heterologous FMT (90%) was superior to that of autologous FMT (43%) (P = 0.019), and...

BACKGROUND Fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) is employed to replace the 'unhealthy' microbiota of the patient with the 'healthy' microbiota of a pre-screened healthy donor. Given the growing importance of gut microbiota dysbiosis in the pathogenesis of intestinal or extraintestinal diseases; it is conceivable that FMT becomes integrated in the routine clinical practice. Our objective was to ass...

OBJECTIVES To compare L-3-[18F]-fluoro-a-methyltyrosine (FMT)-positron emission tomography (PET) and 2-[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG)-PET in the differential diagnosis of maxillofacial tumors. METHODS This study included 36 patients (16 males, 20 females; 31-90 years old) with untreated malignant tumors (34 squamous cell carcinoma, one mucoepidermoid carcinoma, one rhabdomyosarcoma) and...

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been reported as a safe and effective therapy in patients with refractory and recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). FMT has also been reported as a promising therapy in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). Both, CDI and UC, are believed to be caused by dysbiosis, such as altered compositions or decreased diversity of the intestinal microbi...

یکی از جذاب ترین روش های ماشینکاری مدرن، تخلیه الکتریکی است که در اواخر دهه 1960 معرفی شد. با سیم کاربردهای مختلفی دارد، جمله دقت بالا تمام مواد رسانا مانند فلزات، آلیاژهای فلزی، گرافیت و سرامیک همچنین صنایع هوافضا، خودروسازی سایر صنایع. به منظور افزایش سرعت کاهش زبری سطح عرض شکاف، پارامترهای برش بهینه نقش مهمی انتخاب خروجی دارند. این مطالعه، ورودی (دبی، مدت پالس، فرکانس سیم، کشش جریان دی الکتر...

To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Suskind et al evaluating the safety and potential efficacy of fecal microbial transplant (FMT) in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD). The author found that FMT for CD may be a possible therapeutic option for CD. Because their findings are important to current therapy for CD, several questions deserve further attention. FMT has come to the fore...

HYPOTHESIS Round window (RW) stimulation with a floating mass transducer (FMT) can be studied experimentally and optimized to enhance auditory transduction. BACKGROUND The FMT (MED-EL Vibrant Soundbridge) has been recently implanted in patients with refractory conductive or mixed hearing loss to stimulate the RW with varying degrees of success. The mechanics of RW stimulation with the FMT hav...