Safety of fecal microbiota transplantation using frozen, encapsulated inoculum for steroid resistant/dependent acute graft-versus-host disease of gut in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: A pilot study.
- Conditions
- Steroid resistant/dependent acute graft-versus-host disease of gut after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or donor lymphocyte infusion
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 6
Not provided
1) Patients who received other systemic therapy, or higher dose of steroid (>2 mg/kg of mPSL) for their aGVHD (exclusion: the use of immunosuppressants for the prophylaxis of GVHD, or topical steroid). 2) Steroid sensitive aGVHD. 3) Progressive aGVHD after steroid therapy. 4) Uncontrollable infection. 5) Patients symptoms are considered to be caused mainly by enteropathy other than gut aGVHD. 6) PS: 3 or higher. 7) With a risk of aspiration. 8) Inadequate condition judged by primary physician.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Safety of fecal microbiota transplantation using orally administered capsules. All adverse events which newly occurr or progress within 1 week after each FMT are evaluated for the safety of FMT, and are graded according to the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.0.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
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