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Trial reportGut microbes

Fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent C. difficile infection in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: experience of a large-volume European FMT center.

Gianluca Ianiro, Stefano Bibbò, Serena Porcari, Carlo Romano Settanni, Federica Giambò, Andreea Roxana Curta, Gianluca Quaranta, Franco Scaldaferri, Luca Masucci, Maurizio Sanguinetti and 2 more

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Trial report in Gut microbes. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

12 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gianluca IaniroDigestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8318-0515
Stefano BibbòDigestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Serena PorcariDigestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Carlo Romano SettanniDigestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Federica GiambòDigestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Andreea Roxana CurtaDigestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Gianluca QuarantaMicrobiology Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Franco ScaldaferriDigestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8334-7541
Luca MasucciMicrobiology Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Maurizio SanguinettiMicrobiology Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9780-7059
Antonio GasbarriniDigestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4863-6924
Giovanni CammarotaDigestive Disease Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a risk factor for

Indexed as

Fecal Microbiota TransplantationAdultAgedClostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsEuropeFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesMaleMiddle AgedProspective StudiesRecurrenceTreatment OutcomeYoung AdultClostridioides difficile infectionCrohn’s diseaseFecal microbiota transplantationgut microbiotainflammatory bowel diseasemicrobiomeulcerative colitis

Identifiers

PMID34709989
PMCPMC8555518
OpenAlexW3211217227

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