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Patients with Crohns' disease (CD) are always complicated with malnutrition. Exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) is an effective treatment to improve nutritional status and induce remission in patients with CD however a reduction in microbiota diversity was the most frequently reported effect of EEN. There was a raised critical question that whether EEN combining microbiota transplantation can bring much more benefits to those CD patients with malnutrition.
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an effective way of remodeling microbiota. The improved methodology of FMT in our group since 2014 was different from the traditional manual FMT and was recently coined as washed microbiota transplantation (WMT), which is dependent on the automatic facilities and washing process in a laboratory room with biosafety level 3.
Importantly, the worse nutritional status might decrease the efficacy of FMT. Therefore, there was a raised critical question that when is the proper time to combine WMT for those CD patients requiring EEN. This trial aimed to explore the timing of WMT in CD patients with malnutrition and assess the efficacy and safety of the strategy using WMT combined with EEN in CD patients.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early WMT and EEN | Experimental | WMT (day1), EEN (day1-15) |
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| Late WMT and EEN | Experimental | WMT (day8), EEN (day1-15) |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WMT | Procedure | Washed microbiota transplantation (WMT) through mid-gut |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| changes in hemoglobin | Day 8 and day 15 | |
| changes in albumin and prealbumin in g/L | Day 8 and day 15 | |
| changes in lymphocyte count in 10^9/L | Day 8 and day 15 |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| rate of clinical remission | HBI score ≤ 4 | day 15 |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
|---|---|---|
| rate of adverse events | abdominal pain, fever, increased frequency of defecation, etc. | in 1 month following WMT |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faming Zhang, MD; PHD | Contact | 15005160838 | fzhang@njmu.edu.cn |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Faming Zhang, MD; PHD | Nanjing Medical University | Study Chair |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Center for Digestive Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University | Recruiting | Nanjing | Jiangsu | 210011 | China |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23016828 | Background | Tjellstrom B, Hogberg L, Stenhammar L, Magnusson KE, Midtvedt T, Norin E, Sundqvist T. Effect of exclusive enteral nutrition on gut microflora function in children with Crohn's disease. Scand J Gastroenterol. 2012 Dec;47(12):1454-9. doi: 10.3109/00365521.2012.703234. Epub 2012 Sep 28. | |
| 25168749 | Background |
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D003424 | Crohn Disease |
| D044342 | Malnutrition |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D015212 | Inflammatory Bowel Diseases |
| D005759 | Gastroenteritis |
| D005767 | Gastrointestinal Diseases |
| D004066 | Digestive System Diseases |
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| EEN | Dietary Supplement | Exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) through feeding tube |
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| Cui B, Feng Q, Wang H, Wang M, Peng Z, Li P, Huang G, Liu Z, Wu P, Fan Z, Ji G, Wang X, Wu K, Fan D, Zhang F. Fecal microbiota transplantation through mid-gut for refractory Crohn's disease: safety, feasibility, and efficacy trial results. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2015 Jan;30(1):51-8. doi: 10.1111/jgh.12727. |
| 31919742 | Background | Zhang T, Lu G, Zhao Z, Liu Y, Shen Q, Li P, Chen Y, Yin H, Wang H, Marcella C, Cui B, Cheng L, Ji G, Zhang F. Washed microbiota transplantation vs. manual fecal microbiota transplantation: clinical findings, animal studies and in vitro screening. Protein Cell. 2020 Apr;11(4):251-266. doi: 10.1007/s13238-019-00684-8. Epub 2020 Jan 9. |
| 34746161 | Derived | Xiang L, Yu Y, Ding X, Zhang H, Wen Q, Cui B, Zhang F. Exclusive Enteral Nutrition Plus Immediate vs. Delayed Washed Microbiota Transplantation in Crohn's Disease With Malnutrition: A Randomized Pilot Study. Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Oct 22;8:666062. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.666062. eCollection 2021. |
| D007410 | Intestinal Diseases |
| D009748 | Nutrition Disorders |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |