Clostridium difficile colitis causing toxic megacolon, severe sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome

Intensive Care Med. 2003 Jun;29(6):1030. doi: 10.1007/s00134-003-1754-7. Epub 2003 May 7.

Authors

Giles Dobson^{1

2}, Caroline Hickey³, John Trinder³

Affiliations

¹ Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia, Department of Clinical Anaesthesia, The Royal Group of Hospitals, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 68A, Northern Ireland. gtdobson@hotmail.com.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, BT16 1RH, Belfast, Northern Ireland. gtdobson@hotmail.com.
³ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, BT16 1RH, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

PMID: 12734650
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-1754-7

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter
Review

MeSH terms

Aged
Clostridioides difficile*
Colectomy / mortality
Colectomy / statistics & numerical data
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / diagnosis
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / microbiology*
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / mortality
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / surgery
Humans
Male
Megacolon, Toxic / microbiology*
Multiple Organ Failure / microbiology*
Sepsis / microbiology*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed