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Filter by:A prospective study to assess the efficacy and safety of fidaxomicin in Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) recipients (heart, lung, kidney, liver, kidney-pancreas, and pancreas) with a first-episode of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI).
This study evaluates whether patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) who are treated with fidaxomicin have less contamination of their skin and surrounding environment with spores of C. difficile than patients treated with other drugs (metronidazole or vancomycin)
Recurrent or refractory Clostridium difficile Infection (RCDI), with a recent increased incidence, is one of the most difficult and increasingly challenges for CDI. Since Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) has been accepted as the first-line therapy for RCDI, it is prudent to consider less invasive and more convenient means of administering FMT. The majority of reported FMT procedures have been performed with fresh or frozen stool suspensions via colonoscopy or nasojejunal tube. Nowadays, using acid-resistant hypromellose capsules, Youngster et al. significantly simplified the clinical practice of FMT and removed the need for invasive gastrointestinal procedures. However, to avoid undesirable disintegration, those capsules containing stool suspensions must be kept frozen all the time, which extremely limits their widespread application. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of freeze-dried, capsulized FMT for RCDI.
This is a medical research study designed to look at the safety and efficacy of 30-day course of fidaxomicin for treatment of recurrent CDI (Clostridium difficile Infection). CDI is an infection that results when the normal flora (resident bacteria) of the colon is substantially altered by antibiotic treatment. The decrease in this normal flora allows for the growth of the C. difficile bacteria. Fidaxomicin is an antibiotic which is approved by Health Canada for treatment of CDI. Only patients with a primary case of CDI or 1st episode of recurrent CDI have been studied using a 10-day course of fidaxomicin.
The authors retrieved in-patient medical data, including the expense, from the 2010 Thailand Nationwide Hospital Admission Database, which is part of the National Health Security Office (NHSO). The diagnosis of digestive diseases with any form of colitis listed in the causes, either as principal diagnosis or co-morbidity, coding by the ICD-10 was recorded. The inclusion criteria were: 1) diagnosis of enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile (ICD10-A07); and 2) age of more than 18 years. If the data was incomplete, the case was excluded. The baseline characteristics, including age, sex, co-morbidity disease and history of endoscopy or surgery, were recorded. The burden of CDI was evaluated by length of hospital stay (LOS), mortality rate, and hospital charge.
The purpose of this research is to investigate the efficacy of transplanting screened donor fecal material in treating patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. Participants with refractory Clostridium difficile infection will be given healthy donor stool administered by colonoscopy or enema and their response will be evaluated by symptom questionnaire and stool testing for Clostridium difficile at 4 weeks after the treatment.
This is a randomized controlled trial to compare the effect of a 10-day course of per oral metronidazole versus a one-time rectal instillation of an anaerobically cultivated human intestinal microbiota for the treatment of a first occurrence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Recurrent CDI is common after standard antibiotic treatment. We hypothesize that the instillation of a healthy intestinal microbiota will be more effective in inducing a durable cure than metronidazole for primary CDI.
The purpose of the study is to determine the safety and efficacy of Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) for the treatment of the recurrence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) as compared to standard antibiotic therapy. Patients who have tested positive for CDI within 90 days of an admission for relapse of CDI will be approached to participate in this open-label, randomized controlled trial. Patients will either be randomized to the intervention group (receive FMT via retention enema) or the control group (receive antimicrobials targeting CDI).
We are doing this research study to determine if taking vancomycin in addition to a broad-spectrum antibiotic will decrease the chance of developing recurrent Clostridium difficile infection.
The aim of this study is to conduct an Asia-Pacific, multi-center, prospective observational study to characterize patients with CDI as well as to understand treatment and management of the disease.