Community hospital experience of refractory Clostridium difficile colitis: treatment and efficacy of diverting loop ileostomy and colonic lavage

Am Surg. 2014 Aug;80(8):E247-9.

Authors

Connie M Dela'O¹, Asif Quyyum, Russell D Dumire, Thomas J Simunich, S Lee Miller, Aurelio Rodriguez

Affiliation

¹ Department of General Surgery, Conemaugh Health System, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA.

PMID: 25105383

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Clostridioides difficile / isolation & purification
Cross Infection / microbiology
Cross Infection / therapy*
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / microbiology
Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / therapy*
Female
Hospitals, Community
Humans
Ileostomy*
Male
Middle Aged
Retrospective Studies
Therapeutic Irrigation*
Treatment Outcome