著者

田中 孝昌 濱口 智大 西郷 拓海 津田 和彦 Takamasa Tanaka Tomohiro Hamaguchi Takumi Saigo Kazuhiko Tsuda

雑誌

SIG-KSN = SIG-KSN

巻号頁・発行日

vol.20, 2017-03-01

著者

Takamasa Tanaka Haru Kato Takushi Fujimoto

出版者

一般社団法人 日本内科学会

雑誌

Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.55, no.8, pp.999-1000, 2016 (Released:2016-04-15)

参考文献数

8

被引用文献数

1 5

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A 64-year-old woman developed diarrhea after taking clindamycin for a dental infection. We diagnosed her with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and performed fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) as the initial therapy using colonoscopy on an outpatient basis. The frequency of her bowel movements decreased from 10 times per day to two times per day three days after the procedure. The key component of FMT is to restructure the protective microbiome of the natural intestinal flora. We consider that FMT could be used as an effective first-line therapy for CDI if the efficacy and safety of this procedure is established in the future.