Clostridium difficile infections elevate the risks for colectomy, mortality and postoperative complications after a colectomy for patients with ulcerative colitis, according to NEJM Journal Watch.
Q: I'm not sure you'll take this question because of the subject matter, but it seems pretty important. Our dad had a fecal transplant as a last-ditch treatment for C. diff (Clostridioides difficile), ...
Since its introduction in 2011, adoption of diverting loop ileostomy for fulminant Clostridioides difficile colitis has more than doubled, and the procedure appeared to be a viable alternative to ...
A fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) not only cured a case of Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection in a 66 year old man; it eliminated populations of multi-drug resistant organisms both in the ...
Four patients with severe disease were cured after receiving the new broad-spectrum antibiotic tigecycline. When patients with Clostridium difficile colitis do not respond to usual treatment with ...
An inflammation of the colon associated with C. difficile — C. difficile colitis — has increased nearly 50 percent from 2001-2005 to 2006-2010, according to a study in the Journal of the American ...
Fifteen isolates of Clostridium difficile from hamsters and human patients were inhibited or killed by low concentrations of metronidazole, vancomycin, penicillin, and ampicillin; the isolates were ...
Successful treatment of severe Clostridium difficile colitis has been reported with the use of adjunctive intracolonic vancomycin (ICV) therapy. We report a descriptive case series and review the ...
SEATTLE — The bacteria in our digestive system is necessary for processing food, preventing allergic reactions and helping out our immune system. However, upsetting the delicate balance of the ...
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C. Diff Deaths More Likely Among Women, Whites, and Urbanites
More than four out of five deaths (83.9%) were in white patients. That group is more likely to be exposed to risk factors ...
A Massachusetts nursing home will face a medical malpractice suit for allegedly failing to diagnose a resident’s bacterial infections that led to his death, an appeals court ruled recently. The case ...
A Massachusetts nursing home will face a medical malpractice suit for allegedly failing to diagnose one of its resident’s bacterial infections leading to his death, an appeals court ruled recently.
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