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ArticleMedicine in microecology2020

Fecal microbiota transplantation: Uses, questions, and ethics.

Zoya Grigoryan, Michael J Shen, Shaina W Twardus, Marc M Beuttler, Lea Ann Chen, Alison Bateman-House

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Article in Medicine in microecology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
32citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Antimicrobial Resistance: The Answers.British journal of biomedical science · 2026
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  18. Awareness and acceptability of gut microbiome transfer.Frontiers in gastroenterology (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024
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  19. The Next Generation Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: To Transplant Bacteria or Virome.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Zoya GrigoryanDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, 462 First Avenue, 10E1, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
Michael J ShenDivision of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
Shaina W TwardusDivision of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge St Floor 9, Boston, MA 02114; Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St Floor 7, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Marc M BeuttlerDivision of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
Lea Ann ChenDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, 462 First Avenue, 10E1, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
Alison Bateman-HouseDivision of Medical Ethics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA.
New York University · USLouisiana State University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

The Study of Families with Heritable Crohn's Disease to Support Rational Design of Microbiota-based TherapiesK23DK119544 · NIDDK · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES · PI CHEN, LEA A · 2020 to 2024
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NIDDK NIH HHS K23 DK119544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has rapidly grown in notoriety and popularity worldwide as a treatment for both recurrent and refractory

Indexed as

BioethicsC. difficileExpanded accessGastrointestinal microbiomeInvestigational drugsRegulation

Identifiers

PMID33834162
PMCPMC8026161
OpenAlexW3094072901

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