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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of fecal microbiota transplantation in adults with slow transit constipation.


Clinical Trial Description

Constipation is a chronic disease estimated to affect about 10% - 15% of the worldwide general population. Constipation frequency appears to augment with increasing age, particularly after 65 years old.

Recent evidence in the literature and collected in the investigators' laboratory confirm that constipation can be a consequence of intestinal dysbiosis, with an increase of potentially pathogenic microorganisms and a decrease of potentially beneficial microorganisms. These alterations may affect the motility and metabolic environment of colon, especially the production of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs).

A new and under-explored method to manipulate the gastrointestinal microbiota involves fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). There has been growing interest in the use of fecal microbiota for the treatment of patients with chronic gastrointestinal infections (e.g. CDI) and other extraintestinal conditions (e.g. IBD). Similarly, the investigators suppose that reshaping the gut microbiome with FMT would be effective for patients with slow transit constipation. ;


Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


NCT number NCT02526849
Study type Interventional
Source Jinling Hospital, China
Contact Jianfeng Gong, MD
Phone +86-25-80860036
Email jinlingh_gongjf@126.com
Status Recruiting
Phase Phase 2
Start date November 2015
Completion date June 2017

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