Fecal Microbiota Transplant As Treatment of Hepatic Encephalopathy

Donors will be healthy individuals, selected through a previously published, rigorous screening process. Elizabeth Hohmann M.D. of MGH has demonstrated the safety and therapeutic efficacy of oral frozen FMT capsules in Clostridium difficile infection, and her lab will produce the capsules for this study.

Oral placebo capsules filled with glycerol and cocoa powder. These capsules are identical in appearance to FMT capsules.