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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03477032
Date of registration: 19/03/2018
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
Public title: FMT in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Scientific title: Faecal Transplantation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Date of first enrolment: June 1, 2018
Target sample size: 50
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03477032
Study type:  Observational
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Countries of recruitment
Australia
Contacts
Name:     Chamara Basnayake, MBBS
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Affiliation:  St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
Name:     Amy Hamilton, PhD
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Telephone: 03 9231 2211
Email: svhm.fmt.ibd@svha.org.au
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Name:     Amy Hamilton, PhD
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Name:     Amy Hamilton, PhD
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Affiliation:  St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
Name:     Emily Wright, MBBS
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Affiliation:  St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
Name:     Michael Kamm, MBBS
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Affiliation:  St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease or Ulcerative colitis) or
Microscopic Colitis proven on the basis of radiology, endoscopy or histology.

- Patients with clinically and endoscopically active, Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative
Colitis or Microscopic Colitis

- Patient must have attempted reasonable medical therapies to control their disease
without sufficient response.

- All patients have to be capable of attending appointments, as well completing surveys
and diagnostic tests for the duration of study follow up

- The patient must be able to identify a likely stool donor

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients with an enteropathy or colitis which cannot definitively be diagnosed as
Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's disease or Microscopic colitis

- Patients with concurrent Clostridium difficile infection

- Women who are pregnant or intending to become pregnant in the near future (less than 6
months).

- Neutrophils less than 1.0 x 109/L

- Albumin less than 20g/L

- Active gastrointestinal infection as identified by testing

- A patient on steroids (prednisolone, budesonide) at a dose that cannot be safely
tapered to zero within 6 weeks of initial FMT, due to the risk of adrenal
insufficiency

- Short gut syndrome and/or small intestine less than 1.5m in length as measured
intra-operatively

- Perforation or active internal fistulising disease or enterocutaneous fistulae.

- Any patient that the clinicians feel is incapable of participating in the safe use of
FMT.

- Current use of antibiotics for any condition



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Faecal Microbiota Transplantation
Crohn Disease
Microscopic Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
Intervention(s)
Biological: Faecal Microbiota Transplantation
Primary Outcome(s)
Clinical remission as defined by Crohn's disease activity index less than 150 [Time Frame: 8 weeks]
Clinical remission in Ulcerative colitis: Total MAYO score [Time Frame: 8 weeks]
Clinical remission in Microscopic colitis [Time Frame: 8 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
St Vincent's Hospital
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available:
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