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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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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.
Kim Vaiphei +3 more
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Antibiotic-associated fulminant pseudomembranous colitis without toxic megacolon.
, 1992 Presented is a middle-aged male who developed a fulminant case of antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis characterized by leukocytosis, hypoalbuminemia, ascites, and anasarca without toxic megacolon.
Volpe, R J +4 more
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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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Псевдомембранозный колит, осложненный токсическим мегаколоном, после закрытия превентивной стомы [PDF]
, 2016 Toxic megacolon complicating pseudomembranous colitis is a very rare condition that confirms by a few reports. In our case report probably described a case after extraperitoneal preventive colostomy closure toxic megacolon was developed with fatal final ...
Д. В. Ересько +7 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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BMC Gastroenterology, 2004 Background Disorders of coagulation have long been associated with inflammatory bowel disease. Children, as well as adults, with both active and inactive ulcerative colitis have been found to have abnormal coagulation and fibrinolysis.
Christie Dennis +2 more
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Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2004 Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of acute diarrhea worldwide, usually mild and self-limiting. No adequate hypothesis has yet been formulated to explain why in an otherwise healthy host this infection is occasionally severe.
Jennifer L Shin +3 more
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Toxic megacolon in Clostridium difficile colitis
IDCases, 2023 Sayato Fukui +3 more
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