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Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 1980
A case of pseudomembranous colitis is reported in which computed tomography (CT) played an important role in the diagnosis and differentiation from other causes of fever and abdominal pain. It is important to look for CT evidence of primary bowel disease when scans are performed for possible abdominal abscess, since these two conditions may present ...
P C, Goodman, M P, Federle
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A case of pseudomembranous colitis is reported in which computed tomography (CT) played an important role in the diagnosis and differentiation from other causes of fever and abdominal pain. It is important to look for CT evidence of primary bowel disease when scans are performed for possible abdominal abscess, since these two conditions may present ...
P C, Goodman, M P, Federle
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Pseudomembranous enterocolitis
Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, 1959The etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of pseudomembranous enterocolitis are discussed.
P T, CARROLL, L H, VAN DER HOEVEN
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Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2001
Little is known of pseudomembranous esophagitis, a condition of striking endoscopic appearance. Presented here is a description of its nature and outcome.Information on all patients with upper GI disease seen in our unit are held in a computerized database that includes presentation, diagnosis (including pseudomembranous esophagitis), treatment, and ...
A K, Nayyar +3 more
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Little is known of pseudomembranous esophagitis, a condition of striking endoscopic appearance. Presented here is a description of its nature and outcome.Information on all patients with upper GI disease seen in our unit are held in a computerized database that includes presentation, diagnosis (including pseudomembranous esophagitis), treatment, and ...
A K, Nayyar +3 more
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Surgical Clinics of North America, 1993
Pseudomembranous colitis is an inflammatory disease of the colon and rectum characterized by the development of elevated mucosal plaques. It usually is associated with antibiotic therapy and is caused by elaboration of toxin from the anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium difficile. The hallmark of treatment is orally administered vancomycin or metronidazole.
T C, Counihan, P L, Roberts
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Pseudomembranous colitis is an inflammatory disease of the colon and rectum characterized by the development of elevated mucosal plaques. It usually is associated with antibiotic therapy and is caused by elaboration of toxin from the anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium difficile. The hallmark of treatment is orally administered vancomycin or metronidazole.
T C, Counihan, P L, Roberts
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IS PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS INFECTIOUS?
The Lancet, 1981A cluster of eight patients in two adjacent hospital wards acquired acute diarrhoea within a period of 11 days. All their stool samples contained Clostridium difficile toxin and C. difficile was isolated in every case. Three patients had rectal biopsy findings compatible with pseudomembranous colitis (PMC).
Greenfield, C +5 more
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Pseudomembranous enterocolitis in infancy
The Journal of Pediatrics, 1955Summary Ten cases of pseudomembranous enterocolitis are presented which represent twelve years of autopsy experience at the Denver Children's Hospital. The clinical and pathologic findings of the ten cases are analyzed and a discussion of etiological and associated factors is presented.
E C, BEATTY, C R, HAWES
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Rifampin and Pseudomembranous Colitis
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1983Isolates of toxigenic Clostridium difficile, the most frequent cause of antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis, are almost always highly susceptible to rifampin. However, resistant isolates exist and have been associated with colitis in both hamsters and humans given rifampin.
R, Fekety, R, O'Connor, J, Silva
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A study of pseudomembranous enterocolitis
The American Journal of Surgery, 1960Abstract A study was made of nine fatal and three non-fatal cases of pseudomembranous enterocolitis occurring postoperatively during a recent five-year period. Only two of these patients underwent operative procedures on the colon. Fever and diarrhea were the most common initial manifestations of the disease, and appeared an average of 5.7 days after
C, PEARCE, P, DINEEN
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Fulminant Pseudomembranous Colitis
Digestive Surgery, 2008Pseudomembranous colitis is an increasingly frequent nosocomial infection; it commonly occurs after the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, that allow overgrowth of Clostridium difficile. Although this microorganism has been associated with relapse of ulcerative colitis, pseudomembranous colitis complicating inflammatory bowel disease is unusual.
Marchena, J. +3 more
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A Case of Esophageal Pseudomembranes
Gastroenterology, 2013290 Question: A 36-year-old woman presented for evaluation of chronic retrosternal burning. She continued to have daily symptoms despite using omeprazole twice daily. She rarely had liquid regurgitation. Otherwise, she denied dysphagia, odynophagia, and weight loss.
Phil A, Hart +2 more
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