Publication at First Faculty of Medicine, Second Faculty of Medicine |
2013
Abstract
Infections caused by Clostridium difficile (CDI) in recent years the most common infectious diseases associated with hospital care. The disease presents as a simple diarrhea, pseudomembranous colitis and toxic megacolon as rare.
For typical CDI recurrence. The following case report describes a case of fifty men, which was two weeks before the first signs of symptoms of CDI outpatients treated with broad-spectrum antibiotic.
At first, hemorrhagic colitis gradually progressed to the development of toxic megacolon and sepsis, and the patient had to be of vital indication a subtotal colectomy, after which it recovered. The course of treatment is discussed in the article.