Intracolonic vancomycin for severe Clostridium difficile colitis

Surgical Infections

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 532-539

  Kim, Peter K ^a   Huh, Heesun C ^a   Cohen, Hillel W ^a   Feinberg, Elyssa J ^a   Ahmad, Salman ^a   Coyle, Christina ^a   Teperman, Sheldon ^a   Boothe, Hugh ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BICARBONATE; ENEMA; METRONIDAZOLE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACIDOSIS; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON RESECTION; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INTRACOLONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLECTOMY; ENEMA; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 84893005971     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2012.158     Document Type: Article

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