Family Medicine & Primary Care ReviewClostridioides difficile infection is the most common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. IDSA/SHEA, ESCMID and ACG updated the clinical practice guidelines for CDI in 2021. This paper is an attempt to summarize these guidelines.
Mateusz Piotr Baran +4 more
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A young leukemic patient with unusual catastrophic intestinal complication
Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2015 A 14-year-old child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who had completed induction chemotherapy presented with fever and diffuse musculoskeletal pains which was thought to be a constellation of myositis, arthralgias and arthritis.
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Toxic megacolon: physiopathologic mechanism and surgical choices
, 1989 Toxic megacolon is the most dreadful complication arising in patients affected with inflammatory bowel diseases. Its incidence is rather rare, bur mortality rate is significantly high (about 40% of cases).
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A patient who survived total colonic ulcerative colitis surinfected by cytomegalovirus complicated by toxic megacolon and disseminated intravascular coagulation [PDF]
, 2005 peer reviewedThe authors report the case of a patient aged 60-year-old who survived ulcerative colitis complicated by toxic megacolon and disseminated intravascular coagulation.
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Campylobacter Jejuni superinfection causing toxic megacolon in asymptomatic ulcerative colitis: Case Report [PDF]
, 2021 1. C. jejuni is the most common cause of foodborne illness in resource-rich settings and is associated with an increased short and long term risk of inflammatory bowel disease. 2.
Holbrook, Anne, Weatherall, Mark
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Current Diagnostic and Treatment Approach of Clostridioides difficile Infection
Acta Medica Indonesiana, 2023 C. difficile infection is related to wide spectrum of disease, from self-limiting diarrhea to fulminant disease that can cause toxic megacolon or pseudo-membrane colitis. Difficult approach to diagnose this disease is also problem. C.
Bella Yunita, Achmad Fauzi
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AIDS related Kaposi's sarcoma presenting as ulcerative colitis and complicated by toxic megacolon
, 1987 Gastrointestinal Kaposi's sarcoma is a well described and usually asymptomatic manifestation of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. We report a patient who had extensive colonic Kaposi's sarcoma and presented with an ulcerative colitis like illness.
Biggs, BA +5 more
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[The development of a toxic megacolon due to Amanita phalloides poisoning. A rare complication]
, 2004 HISTORY: A 71-year-old previously healthy man consumed a mushroom meal containing Amanita phalloides, which he had confused with Agaricus campestris.
Eyer, F;Felgenhauer, N;Zilker, T
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Megacolon tóxico. Tratamiento quirúrgico
, 2020 Toxic megacolon represents a complication resulting from mainly inflammatory or infectious conditions of the colon. It is most commonly associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), that is, ulcerative colitis or ileocolonic Crohn's disease ...
Pozo Gualpa, Daniela Alejandra +3 more
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Toxic megacolon and human Cytomegalovirus in a series of severe ulcerative colitis patients [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection has been reported to be a cause of refractory ulcerative colitis (UC). Toxic megacolon (TM) is a rare but severe complication of an acute attack of UC.
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