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Clostridioides difficile infection leading to fulminant colitis with toxic megacolon
Autopsy and Case Reports, 2023 Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is the culprit of millions of nosocomial infections in the United States. Programs that successfully decrease its incidence, therefore, render cost savings for the healthcare system.
Fareed Rajack +2 more
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Two Cases of Severe Ulcerative Colitis with Colonic Dilatation Resolved with Tacrolimus Therapy
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2015 We report 2 cases of ulcerative colitis (UC) with intestinal tract dilatation treated with tacrolimus. They were 53- and 64-year-old males, who had been admitted to local hospitals for increasing severity of their UC symptoms. Treatment for severe UC was
Ryohei Hayashi +10 more
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IJU Case Reports, Volume 9, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT Introduction Combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has become a standard treatment for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). However, ICIs may also cause immune‐related adverse events. We report a case of mRCC that developed fulminant immune‐related enterocolitis.
Kasumi Kanai +9 more
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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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Radiology of acute toxic megacolon
, 2018 A case is described in which the transition from acute idiopathic ulcerative colitis to acute toxic megacolon was followed radioJogically, and the features which indicate the development of this dangerous complication are identified.S. Afr. Med.
Werbeloff, L +7 more
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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).
GENTILE, MAURIZIO +2 more
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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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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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