Pseudomembranous colitis with fatal outcome in a 43-year-old man

Legal Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 246-250

  Türk, Elisabeth E ^a   Sperhake, Jan P ^a   Tsokos, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

AIDS; Antibiotic therapy; Clostridium difficile; Immunodeficiency; Pseudomembranous colitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MORPHINE; PENICILLIN G;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARDIOTOXICITY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON PERFORATION; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FECES CULTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERITONITIS; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; TONSILLITIS; TOXIC MEGACOLON;

EID: 0036891596     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(02)00050-0     Document Type: Article

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