Defining surgical therapy for pseudomembranous colitis with toxic megacolon

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 476-480

  Berman, Loren ^a   Carling, Tobias ^a   Fitzgerald, Tamara N ^a   Bell, Robert L ^a   Duffy, Andrew J ^a   Longo, Walter E ^a   Roberts, Kurt E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Colectomy; Immunosuppression; Pseudomembranous colitis; Toxic megacolon

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NARCOTIC AGENT; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RISK FACTOR; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOXIC MEGACOLON; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLECTOMY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; MEGACOLON, TOXIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42449117675     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e31804bbe12     Document Type: Article

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