Catching up with...stool transplants for C. diff
Submitted by michael on Thu, 2010-07-29 11:00
This must be C. Diff week here at InteractMD.com, because we have a few new papers on the challenging subject.
Today's latest is an update of stool transplants from Norway--researchers report up to 73% efficacy in treating this often deadly infection by taking stool from a family donor and transferring it by colonoscopy to the patient. If it didn't work the first time, sometimes it works after a second attempt.
I'll leave the jokes for the late-night talk show hosts, but if we have a treatment that is almost 75% effective for a very challenging clinical problem, why aren't we using it more?
