A New Look at Toxic Megacolon: An Update and Review of Incidence, Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Management

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 98, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2363-2371

  Gan, S Ian ^a   Beck, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTOKINE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MEPREDNISONE; MESALAZINE; METRONIDAZOLE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLITIS; COLON DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIARRHEA; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMBOLISM; ENTAMOEBA; ENTERITIS; HUMAN; HYPERALIMENTATION; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOKALEMIA; ILEOSTOMY; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTRAVENOUS FEEDING; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHLEBITIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOPHLEBITIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SHIGELLA; STOMACH DISTENSION; TOXIC MEGACOLON; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 0345358730     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2003.07696.x     Document Type: Review

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