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Aliment Pharmacol Ther ; 42(4): 470-6, 2015 Aug.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26096320

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BACKGROUND: Severe and severe/complicated Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) can result in ICU admission, sepsis, toxic megacolon and death. In this setting, colectomy is the standard of care but it is associated with a 50% mortality. AIM: To evaluate safety and efficacy of a sequential faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) and antibiotic protocol in severe and severe/complicated CDI patients who are at high risk for colectomy. METHODS: All patients with severe and severe/complicated CDI refractory to oral vancomycin ± rectal vancomycin and intravenous metronidazole therapy were offered FMT. Treatment consisted of sequential FMTs via colonoscopy with the need for repeat FMT and continued vancomycin guided by clinical response and pseudomembranes at colonoscopy. RESULTS: A total of 29 patients underwent FMT between July 2013 and August 2014. The overall treatment response of endoscopic sequential FMT was 93% (27/29), with 100% (10/10) for severe CDI and 89% (17/19) for severe/complicated CDI. A single FMT was performed in 62%, two FMTs were performed in 31% and three FMTs in 7% of patients. The use of non-CDI antibiotics predicted repeat FMT (odds ratio = 17.5). The 30-day all-cause mortality after FMT was 7%, and the cumulative 3-month survival was 76%. Of the two patients who died within 30 days, one underwent colectomy and succumbed to sepsis; the other died from septic shock related to CDI. CONCLUSION: The success of a treatment protocol for severe and severe/complicated involving faecal microbiota transplantation and continued vancomycin in selected patients was high, and it warrants further evaluation.


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Antibacterianos/uso terapéutico , Infecciones por Clostridium/tratamiento farmacológico , Trasplante de Microbiota Fecal/métodos , Vancomicina/uso terapéutico , Adulto , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Clostridioides difficile/aislamiento & purificación , Colectomía , Colonoscopía/métodos , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Metronidazol/uso terapéutico , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estudios Retrospectivos , Sepsis/epidemiología , Choque Séptico/epidemiología
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Mol Biol Cell ; 10(11): 3595-605, 1999 Nov.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10564258

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Elastic fibers consist of two morphologically distinct components: elastin and 10-nm fibrillin-containing microfibrils. During development, the microfibrils form bundles that appear to act as a scaffold for the deposition, orientation, and assembly of tropoelastin monomers into an insoluble elastic fiber. Although microfibrils can assemble independent of elastin, tropoelastin monomers do not assemble without the presence of microfibrils. In the present study, immortalized ciliary body pigmented epithelial (PE) cells were investigated for their potential to serve as a cell culture model for elastic fiber assembly. Northern analysis showed that the PE cells express microfibril proteins but do not express tropoelastin. Immunofluorescence staining and electron microscopy confirmed that the microfibril proteins produced by the PE cells assemble into intact microfibrils. When the PE cells were transfected with a mammalian expression vector containing a bovine tropoelastin cDNA, the cells were found to express and secrete tropoelastin. Immunofluorescence and electron microscopic examination of the transfected PE cells showed the presence of elastic fibers in the matrix. Biochemical analysis of this matrix showed the presence of cross-links that are unique to mature insoluble elastin. Together, these results indicate that the PE cells provide a unique, stable in vitro system in which to study elastic fiber assembly.


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Cuerpo Ciliar/metabolismo , Proteínas Contráctiles/metabolismo , Proteínas de la Matriz Extracelular , Microfibrillas/metabolismo , Animales , Bovinos , Células Cultivadas , Condrocitos , Desmosina/análisis , Tejido Elástico/metabolismo , Elastina/genética , Elastina/metabolismo , Matriz Extracelular/ultraestructura , Fibrilinas , Técnica del Anticuerpo Fluorescente , Humanos , Técnicas In Vitro , Microfibrillas/ultraestructura , Proteínas de Microfilamentos/química , Microscopía Electrónica , Factores de Empalme de ARN , Transfección , Tropoelastina/genética , Tropoelastina/metabolismo
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