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Pseudomembranous Colitis: Not Always Caused by Clostridium difficile [PDF]
Case Reports in Medicine, 2014 Although classically pseudomembranous colitis is caused by Clostridium difficile, it can result from several etiologies. Certain medications, chemical injury, collagenous colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, ischemia, and other infectious pathogens can ...
Derek M. Tang +5 more
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Case of Pseudomembranous Colitis Caused by a Clostridioides difficile Infection Concomitant with Cytomegalovirus colitis Mimicking Ischemic Colitis [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology, 2023 A Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is one of the major nosocomial diarrheal diseases. Pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) is a characteristic endoscopic finding of CDI, manifested by white or yellowish plaque covering the colonic mucosa.
Hyo Suk Kim, Hye Min Kim, Tae-Geun Gweon
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Recurrent Pseudomembranous Colitis in an Ovarian Cancer Patient Undergoing Carboplatin Chemotherapy [PDF]
Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2016 Background. Diarrhea is a common problem in ovarian cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and Clostridium difficile infection has been identified as a cause.
Valerie A. Allen +2 more
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Ischemic Colitis Presented as Pseudomembranous Colitis: An Untypical Case from Vietnam [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022 Ischemic colitis (IC) is an underreported chronic disease characterized by the hypoperfusion of the bowel mucosa. The diagnosis and treatment may be challenging because its clinical course resembles other colitis or even colorectal malignancies.
Tien Manh Huynh +5 more
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Acute renal failure in the onset of pseudomembranous colitis
Лечащий Врач, 2023 Pseudomembranous colitis in recent years has become a fairly aggressive and widespread form of infection associated with the use of antibacterial therapy, refers to the most severe inflammatory bowel diseases, the cause of which is the grampositive ...
S. G. Alexandrova +5 more
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Pseudomembranous colitis on aytopsy materials of large multi-type hospital [PDF]
Журнал инфектологии, 2014 As a result of wide and irrational antibiotics using the problem of AAC has become an issue. According to medical sources Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (pseudomembranous colitis) is not registered and its clinical diagnostics is ...
E. I. Belinskaya +2 more
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Pseudomembranous Colitis: An Update [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2000 Clostridium difficile is the most common nosocomial infection of the gastrointestinal tract. Most cases are associated with antibiotic therapy that alters the fecal flora, allowing overgrowth of C difficile with production of its toxins.
Harpreet S Brar, Christina M Surawicz
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Pseudomembranous colitis [PDF]
Jornal de Pediatria, 1999 OBJECTIVE: To alert about the pseudomembranous colitis in children, a consequence of the use of antibiotics. METHODS: This report is the result of the clinical follow-up of a patient with chronic diarrhea after the use of several antibiotics. The bibliography was obtained through Medline system. RESULTS: Case report of a girl two years and seven months
C T, Ferreira, A A, Pires, J V, Cruz
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Sulphasalazine-Induced Pseudomembranous Colitis [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1991 An 18-year-old female with ankylosing spondylitis developed fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea on two occasions after starting sulphasalazine therapy. Flexible sigmoidoscopy revealed pseudomembranous colitis; fecal cultures were positive for Clostridium ...
Hugh J Freeman +3 more
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Synchronous Occurrence of Collagenous and Pseudomembranous Colitis
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2000 Synchronous collagenous and pseudomembranous colitis has not been previously reported. A 73-year-old woman presented with chronic watery diarrhea and abdominal cramping of six weeks’ duration.
Z Vesoulis, G Lozanski, T Loiudice
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