Fecal Microbiota Therapy for Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection

NCT02686645 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE2/PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2016-09-27

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Summary

Interventional, single arm, single-centre trial to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of fecal microbiota therapy (FMT) in the investigators population.

Conditions

  • Clostridium Difficile Infection

Interventions

BIOLOGICAL

Fecal Microbiota

The fecal microbiota will be by retention enema administered through a rectal tube.

DRUG

vancomycin

All subjects will be pre-treated with vancomycin 125 mg po qid X 7 days prior to the fecal microbiota.

DRUG

Loperamide

The subject will take 4 mg of loperamide after the morning bowel prep (approximately 1 hour prior to the procedure) and 2 mg again after the procedure.

DRUG

metronidazole

If unable to tolerate vancomycin, then it will be substituted with metronidazole 500 mg po tid X 7 days prior to the fecal microbiota.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ian R Davis, MD,FRCPC · Dalhousie University, Department of Medicine, Division Infectious Diseases

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-12-31
Primary Completion
2021-12-31
Completion
2021-12-31

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