A Case of Pseudomembranous Colitis after Voriconazole Therapy

This is a case report on a 35-year-old man with acute myelogenous leukemia who presented fever and intermittent mucoid loose stool to the emergency center. He had been taking voriconazole for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. The flexible sigmoidoscopy was consistent with the diagnosis of pseudomemb...

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Autores principales: Kwon, Jae-Cheol, Kang, Min-Kyu, Kim, Si-Hyun, Choi, Su-Mi, Kim, Hee-Je, Min, Woo-Sung, Lee, Dong-Gun
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21786455
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2011.52.5.863
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author Kwon, Jae-Cheol
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description This is a case report on a 35-year-old man with acute myelogenous leukemia who presented fever and intermittent mucoid loose stool to the emergency center. He had been taking voriconazole for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. The flexible sigmoidoscopy was consistent with the diagnosis of pseudomembranous colitis.
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spelling pubmed-31599262011-09-07 A Case of Pseudomembranous Colitis after Voriconazole Therapy Kwon, Jae-Cheol Kang, Min-Kyu Kim, Si-Hyun Choi, Su-Mi Kim, Hee-Je Min, Woo-Sung Lee, Dong-Gun Yonsei Med J Case Report This is a case report on a 35-year-old man with acute myelogenous leukemia who presented fever and intermittent mucoid loose stool to the emergency center. He had been taking voriconazole for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. The flexible sigmoidoscopy was consistent with the diagnosis of pseudomembranous colitis. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2011-09-01 2011-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3159926/ /pubmed/21786455 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2011.52.5.863 Text en © Copyright: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2011 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kim, Hee-Je
Min, Woo-Sung
Lee, Dong-Gun
A Case of Pseudomembranous Colitis after Voriconazole Therapy
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