Clostridium difficile-associated small bowel enteritis after total proctocolectomy in a crohn's disease patient

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-77

  Kurtz, Leon E ^a   Yang, Steven S ^a   Bank, Simmy ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; NEPHROLITHIASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; SMALL BOWEL ENTERITIS; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; TACHYCARDIA;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROHN DISEASE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; PROCTOCOLECTOMY, RESTORATIVE;

EID: 75149158555     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e3181a7481b     Document Type: Letter

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