SEVERE CASES OF PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS

Authors
MOHAMMEDI I GACHOT B SOUWEINE B VACHON F
Citation
I. Mohammedi et al., SEVERE CASES OF PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS, Annales francaises d'anesthesie et de reanimation, 14(4), 1995, pp. 362-365
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Anesthesiology
Journal title
Annales francaises d'anesthesie et de reanimation → ACNP
ISSN journal
07507658
Volume
14
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
362 - 365
Database
ISI
SICI code
0750-7658(1995)14:4<362:SCOPC>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
Clostridium difficile causes a broad spectrum of enteric diseases in h umans, ranging from mild antibiotic-associated diarrhoea to more sever e pseudomembranous colitis. The authors report four cases of life-thre atening pseudomembranous colitis with haemodynamic changes. Infection due to Clostridium difficile should be kept in mind whenever a patient undergoing antibiotic therapy develops a symptomatology of an acute a bdomen.