Risk factors for mortality following emergency colectomy for fulminant clostridium difficile infection

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 400-405

  Pepin, Jacques ^a,e   Vo, Thanh Truc ^a   Boutros, Marylise ^b   Marcotte, Eric ^a   Dial, Sandra ^b   Dub, Serge ^c,d   Vasilevsky, Carol Ann ^b   McFadden, Nathalie ^a   Patino, Carlos ^c   Labb, Annie Claude ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Clostridium difficile; Colectomy; Septic shock

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLITIS; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT INDICATION; EMERGENCY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLECTOMY; EMERGENCIES; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK MANAGEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64549156532     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e31819a69aa     Document Type: Article

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