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Case Reports
[Refractory colitis by Clostridium difficile treated with fecal microbiota transplant].
- Jorge V Martínez, Astrid Raush, Ernesto D Efrón, Ignacio Zubiaurre, María Victoria Pinoni, Patricia L Giorgio, María José Eusebio, Sergio C Verbanaz, and Rosana Jordan.
- Servicio de Infectología, Hospital Británico de Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: jorgevmartinez57@gmail.com.
- Medicina (B Aires). 2019 Jan 1; 79 (4): 291-294.
AbstractClostridium difficile infection is an increasingly recognized cause of diarrhea in inpatients, frequently associated to high mortality. Vancomycin is the treatment of choice for all Clostridium difficile- associated diarrheas, with different degrees of severity. However, some patients develop refractory forms to that treatment and there are no alternative antibiotic schemes recommended for these cases. Fecal microbiota transplantation has been shown to be successful in a series of cases of severe diarrhea associated with this organism. We present a case of refractory C. difficile infection successfully treated with fecal microbiota transplantation.
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