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Review
. 2019 Jul 29:2019:3469754.
doi: 10.1155/2019/3469754. eCollection 2019.

Are There Potential Applications of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation beyond Intestinal Disorders?

Youlian Zhou  1   2 , Haoming Xu  1   2 , Hongli Huang  1   2 , Yingfei Li  1   2 , Huiting Chen  1   2 , Jie He  1   2 , Yanlei Du  1   2 , Ye Chen  3 , Yongjian Zhou  1   2 , Yuqiang Nie  1   2
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Review

Are There Potential Applications of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation beyond Intestinal Disorders?

Youlian Zhou et al. Biomed Res Int. .

Abstract

Intestinal microbial dysbiosis is associated with various intestinal and extraintestinal disorders. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), a type of fecal bacteriotherapy, is considered an effective therapeutic option for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (rCDI) and also has important value in other intestinal diseases including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The purpose of this review is to discuss promising therapeutic value in extraintestinal diseases associated with gut microbial dysbiosis, including liver, metabolic, chronic kidney, neuropsychiatric, allergic, autoimmune, and hematological diseases as well as tumors.

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