Dr. Khan performed the stool transfer procedure at University of Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital in August to help the child battle a persistent Clostridium difficile infection.
The patient received the FMT transplant from his mother. Subsequent tests revealed no evidence of C. diff, and the child has remained symptom-free.
Dr. Kahn is assistant professor of pediatrics at University of Chicago Medicine.
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