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Pseudomembrane colitis (PMC)
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Pseudomembrane colitis (PMC)
- an acute, exudative colitis usually caused byClostridium difficile
can be caused by other bacteria than C. diff
- Staphylococcus spp
- enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens
- Campylobacter spp.
- Listeria spp.
- Salmonella spp.
Symptoms
- Typically, symptoms come on between 5 and 10 days after antibiotic therapy. Occasionally patients will not have had antibiotic exposure
- Most patients become unwell during their course of antibiotics, but 25-40% may not do so for as many as 10 weeks afterwards
- Most affected individuals experience watery diarrhoea (varies from self-limiting to severe and debilitating) ± blood-stained stools, abdominal cramps, fever (especially so in severe cases), rigors ± septicaemia.
- Severe abdominal pain is uncommon but may mimic an acute abdomen.
- Frank rectal bleeding suggests other causes (for example, inflammatory bowel disease).
lethal to elderly patients
Información
- Descripción
- GI infections
- Creado por
- Karo · abr 2014
- Actualizado
- 19 feb 2016
- Visitas
- 47
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