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Role of surgery in antibiotic-induced pseudomembranous enterocolitis

The American Journal of Surgery, 1990
With the increased use of prophylactic and broad-spectrum antibiotics, pseudomembranous colitis has emerged as a significant clinical problem. Management with specific anti-Clostridium difficile therapy (vancomycin or metronidazole) has reduced mortality to less than 2%.
Thomas A. Stellato, Robert M. Zollinger, Jon B. Morris   +2 more
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Pseudomembranous Enterocolitis: A Review of Its Diverse Forms

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1977
Recognized since the 1890s, pseudomembranous enterocolitis is a distressing paradox of medical progress. It occurs as an untoward, and often fatal, complication of modern therapy and hospitalization. Pseudomembranous enterocolitis has been associated with gastrointestinal surgery, staphylococcal infections, high-risk newborns, and antibiotic therapy ...
John G. Bartlett, Sherwood L. Gorbach
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Pseudomembranous enterocolitis

The American Journal of Surgery, 1961
A. Laufer, M. Freund, D. Birnbaum
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Drug-induced pseudomembranous enterocolitis

Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, 1976
Pseudomembranous enterocolitis is an iatrogenic illness resulting from the oral or intramuscular use of broad-spectrum antibiotics. It is characterized by diarrhea, mucosal inflammation, and pseudomembrane formation in the gastrointestinal tract. The diagnosis is established by an index of suspicion in individuals who have been on antibiotic therapy ...
Gene W. Slagle, H. Whitney Boggs
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Pseudomembranous enterocolitis after gynecologic endoscopy

The Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, 1994
A 21-year-old nulligravida underwent diagnostic hysteroscopy and laparoscopic potassium-titanyl-phosphate laser ablation of pelvic peritoneal endometriosis (revised American Fertility score of 10) for dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, and dyschezia. Preoperatively the patient had an electrolyte bowel preparation but no antibiotic prophylaxis.
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Pseudomembranous enterocolitis

The American Journal of Surgery, 1957
H W, HALE, J H, COSGRIFF
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Staphylococcus pseudomembranous enterocolitis, a complication of antibiotic therapy

The American Journal of Surgery, 1954
I N the past live years the medical profession has become aware of the increasing incidence of cases of pseudomembranous or diphtheritic enterocoIitis found at necropsy. It has been suggested that the increase of the incidence of these cases runs parallel with the universal use of antibiotic drugs.
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Pseudomembranous Enterocolitis

American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1966
THIS REPORT is to record the occurrence of the death of an infant with congenital aganglionic megacolon which is attributed to the development of pseudomembranous enterocolitis. It is believed that this combination of events has not been previously reported.
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STAPHYLOCOCCAL PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS ENTEROCOLITIS

The Lancet, 1954
I.F. Sutherland, S.E. Keidan
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Clarithromycin and pseudomembranous enterocolitis

The Lancet, 1994
David Nadal, C. P. Braegger
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