Fulminant Clostridium difficile toxic megacolon in a pediatric heart transplant recipient

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Patel, Angira ^a   Gossett, Jeffrey J ^a   Benton, Tara ^a   Rowell, Erin ^a   Russell, Hyde ^a   Cham, Elaine ^a   Pahl, Elfriede ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; heart transplant; NAP1; toxic megacolon

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLON RESECTION; CONVALESCENCE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; NONHUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECIPIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOM; TOXIC MEGACOLON;

CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLECTOMY; COLON; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFLAMMATION; INTRA-ABDOMINAL HYPERTENSION; MEGACOLON, TOXIC; RISK;

EID: 84856005111     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2010.01397.x     Document Type: Article

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