Weight gain after fecal microbiota transplantation.

Open Forum Infect Dis

Division of Gastroenterology, Center for Women's Gastrointestinal Medicine at the Women's Medicine Collaborative , The Miriam Hospital, Warren Alpert School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Published: January 2015

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a promising treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. We report a case of a woman successfully treated with FMT who developed new-onset obesity after receiving stool from a healthy but overweight donor. This case may stimulate further studies on the mechanisms of the nutritional-neural-microbiota axis and reports of outcomes in patients who have used nonideal donors for FMT.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4438885PMC
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