Min Dai, Yafei Liu, Wei Chen, Heena Buch, Yi Shan, Liuhui Chang, Yong Bai, Chen Shen, Xiaoyin Zhang, Yufeng Huo, Dian Huang, Zhou Yang, Zhihang Hu, Xuwei He, Junyu Pan, Lili Hu, Xinfang Pan, Xiangtao Wu, Bin Deng, Zhifeng Li, Bota Cui, Faming Zhang
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) is a risk factor for exacerbating the outcome of critically ill patients. Dysbiosis induced by the exposure to antibiotics reveals the potential therapeutic role of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in these patients. Herein, we aimed to evaluate the safety and potential benefit of rescue FMT for AAD in critically ill patients. METHODS: A series of critically ill patients with AAD received rescue FMT from Chinese fmtBank, from September 2015 to February 2019...
October 21, 2019: Critical Care: the Official Journal of the Critical Care Forum