Everyday Medicine by Dr Luke Crantock

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Episode 151. Faecal Microbial Transplant for IBD

The use of faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) to treat severe C. Difficile enterocolitis was visited in episode 14 of Everyday Medicine with Dr Darcy Holt as our guest. If you haven’t had an opportunity to listen to that conversation, please do and hopefully it will pique your interest. In this episode we invite a guest involved in active research at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital to discuss FMT in IBD broadly then more specifically as it applies to her current research project evaluating its efficacy in Crohn’s disease.

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