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KMID : 0882420210960040358
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Korean Journal of Medicine
2021 Volume.96 No. 4 p.358 ~ p.362
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Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Treating Steroid-Refractory Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease of the Gut
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Yeon Sang-Hoon
Lee Myeong-Won
Jo Deog-Yeon
Heo Bu-Yeon
Kwon Jae-Yul
Song Ik-Chan
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Abstract
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Restoring the microbiota via fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) can be an effective treatment for steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) of the gut. Here, we report two adult patients who underwent FMT to treat steroid-refractory acute GVHD of the gut. The first patient was a 43-year-old man who underwent allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) with cells from a matched sibling donor. The second patient was a 70-year-old woman who underwent haplo-identical HSCT with cells from her son. Gut GVHD developed at 7 and 4 weeks after HSCT, respectively. After undergoing FMT, the clinical symptoms improved; the first patient had a complete response and the second patient had a partial response. Microbial analyses using RNA gene sequencing showed that a diverse fecal microbiome was recovered by 4 weeks after FMT. FMT should be considered an effective therapeutic option for managing steroid-refractory acute GVHD of the gut.
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KEYWORD
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Fecal microbiota transplantation, Graft vs host disease, Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
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