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Table 1 Participant demographic characteristics

From: Long-term safety of fecal microbiota transplantation in Chinese children from 2013 to 2023: a single-center retrospective study

Characteristic

n (%)

Nasogastric tube (n)

Nasal jejunal tube (n)

Enema

(n)

Capsule

(n)

Colonoscopy

(n)

Age (mo)

< 36

101 (12.4)

25

31

34

4

7

> 36

712 (87.6)

25

90

44

521

32

Sex

Males

553 (68.0)

23

64

46

393

27

Females

260 (32.0)

27

57

32

132

12

Diseases

Infectious diseases

rCDI

175 (21.5)

19

54

35

62

5

MDROs

6 (0.7)

3

1

2

0

0

AAD

5 (0.6)

0

3

0

2

0

Hepatitis B

1 (0.1)

0

0

0

1

0

CAEBV

2 (0.3)

0

0

2

0

0

Gut diseases

Chronic intractable diarrhea

75 (9.2)

9

34

20

12

0

CD

47 (5.8)

0

7

3

37

0

Functional gastrointestinal disorder

41 (5.0)

6

9

3

23

0

UC

29 (3.6)

2

9

2

11

5

Pouchitis

9 (1.1)

0

1

6

2

0

Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction

3 (0.4)

0

3

0

0

0

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis

1 (0.1)

0

0

0

1

0

Psychiatric diseases

ASD

403 (49.6)

2

14

0

356

31

ADHD

18 (2.2)

0

0

0

18

0

Anorexia nervosa

9 (1.1)

0

1

0

8

0

Metabolic diseases

Metabolic syndrome

1 (0.1)

0

1

0

0

0

Immune diseases

Rheumatoid arthritis

12 (1.5)

0

2

0

1

0

Allergic eczema

9 (1.1)

1

2

9

4

0

Others

 

13 (1.6)

9

0

0

4

2

  1. Abbreviations: rCDI: recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection; MDROs: multidrug-resistant organisms; AAD: antibiotic associated diarrhea; CAEBV: chronic active epstein-Barr virus; UC: ulcerative colitis; CD: Crohn’s disease; ASD: autism spectrum disorder; ADHD: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder