Fecal Transplantation Administered Through the NOSE!

Fecal transplant is nothing new as it has been around since the 1950's... It is used to treat multi-drug resistant clostridium dificile infection by replacing the "bad" gut bacteria with normal "good" bacteria. However, what is new is the fact that such fecal transplantation is being administered through the nose using a tube threaded into the small bowel. [Thanks to  @GuildfordENT who brought this to my attention!] Historically, such fecal transplantation (aka fec…

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Woman Undergoes Successful Voicebox Transplant

USA Today published a story on January 20, 2011 about a courageous woman who underwent a voicebox transplant October 2010. The surgery took over 2 days and was led by a team of doctors at the University of California, Davis Medical Center and included experts from England and Sweden. The first voicebox transplant took place at Cleveland Clinic in 1998 on Timothy Heidler after a motorcycle accident and who now talks completely normally. Read more of the story here . Reference: Laryngea…

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