Eosinophilic gastroenteritis and graft‐versus‐host disease induced by transmission of Norovirus with fecal microbiota transplant
Jarosław Biliński, Karol Lis, Agnieszka Tomaszewska, Aleksandra Pechcinska, Paweł Grzesiowski, Tomasz Dzieciątkowski, Alicja Walesiak, Beata Gierej, Bogna Ziarkiewicz‐Wróblewska, Martyna Tyszka, Piotr Kacprzyk, Lidia Chmielewska, Anna Waszczuk‐Gajda, W Wiktor-Jędrzejczak, Grzegorz Basak
Abstract
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) was performed to decolonize gastrointestinal tract from antibiotic-resistant bacteria before allogeneic hematopoietic cells transplantation (alloHCT). AlloHCT was complicated by norovirus gastroenteritis, acute graft-versus-host disease, and eosinophilic pancolitis. Norovirus was identified in samples from FMT material. Symptoms resolved after steroids course and second norovirus-free FMT from another donor.
Topics & Concepts
NorovirusMedicineFecesPancolitisGraft-versus-host diseaseHematopoietic stem cell transplantationTransplantationImmunologyMicrobiologyInternal medicineColonoscopyBiologyVirusColorectal cancerCancerViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiologyClostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens researchClinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology