In this interview, Professor Ng introduced fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), a new treatment to restore the intestinal microbial ecological balance by introducing filtered stool solution of healthy people and showed us how this can be done via gastroscopy or colonoscopy. A patient with recurrent C. difficile infection recovered after receiving FMT.

The use of microbiota transplantation may be able to treat obese patients with type II diabetes mellitus.

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腸道微生物群移植可能有助治療患有二型糖尿病的肥胖人士。

The CUHK Gastroenterology team has been the pioneer in introducing FMT for recurrent C. difficile infection in Hong Kong since 2013.

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中大腸胃科團隊於2013年率先把「腸道微生物移植」引入本港，用以治療復發性難辨梭菌感染。