Fulminant Clostridium difficile Enteritis after Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastamosis

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection of the small bowel is very rare. The disease course is more severe than that of C. difficile colitis, and the mortality is high. We present a case of C. difficile enteritis in a patient with ileal pouch-anal anastamosis (IPAA), and review previous case...

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Autores principales: Boland, Elena, Thompson, Jon S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19197378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/985658
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description Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection of the small bowel is very rare. The disease course is more severe than that of C. difficile colitis, and the mortality is high. We present a case of C. difficile enteritis in a patient with ileal pouch-anal anastamosis (IPAA), and review previous case reports in order to better characterize this unusual condition.
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spelling pubmed-26334542009-02-05 Fulminant Clostridium difficile Enteritis after Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastamosis Boland, Elena Thompson, Jon S. Gastroenterol Res Pract Case Report Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection of the small bowel is very rare. The disease course is more severe than that of C. difficile colitis, and the mortality is high. We present a case of C. difficile enteritis in a patient with ileal pouch-anal anastamosis (IPAA), and review previous case reports in order to better characterize this unusual condition. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2008 2009-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2633454/ /pubmed/19197378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/985658 Text en Copyright © 2008 E. Boland and J. S. Thompson. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Fulminant Clostridium difficile Enteritis after Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastamosis
title Fulminant Clostridium difficile Enteritis after Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastamosis
title_full Fulminant Clostridium difficile Enteritis after Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastamosis
title_fullStr Fulminant Clostridium difficile Enteritis after Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastamosis
title_full_unstemmed Fulminant Clostridium difficile Enteritis after Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastamosis
title_short Fulminant Clostridium difficile Enteritis after Proctocolectomy and Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastamosis
title_sort fulminant clostridium difficile enteritis after proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastamosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19197378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/985658
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