Fecal Microbiota Transplantation As a Potential Treatment for Parkinson's Disease: A new clinical trial (March 2019)

[Farooqji]

Brief Summary:

this pilot study aims to further explore the potential usage of Fecal microbiota transplantation in treating constipation and possibly also motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, and to increase understanding of the potential relationship between the identities of intestinal microbial communities and PD.

Soroka Medical CenterRecruiting

Be'er Sheva, Israel, 151

Contact: naomi amochai, mrs 972-8-6403772 [e-mail]

Contact: keren moyal, Ph.D 972-52-7129531 [e-mail]

clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show...

[munchybunch]

This is the area I’m interested in. Looks like the gut and microbiome is where they will make the breakthroughs. How will we hear the results of this trial ? It comes out in dec this year ? Keep us posted !!

[GymBag in reply to munchybunch]

The results , Iqbaliqbal will post it of course

Like the research , dislike the method

[felixned]

I find it interesting and puzzling that their exclusion criteria has colonoscopy listed as one of the conditions.