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Post-Radiation Colitis (3 of 13)
(Post-irradiation mucosal vascular changes) Colonoscopy demonstrates multiple twisted small telangiectasias compatible with her history of radiation exposure. The most common symptom is rectal bleeding...
Post-Radiation Colitis (2 of 13)
Endoscopic view of Post-irradiation proctitis Post-irradiation proctitis with extensive rectal musocal hypervascularity The image and the video clip show evidence of radiation injury. The changes...
Post-Radiation Colitis (1 of 13)
This 77 year old woman underwent radiation therapy for cervical cancer approximately one and a half years ago. She remained well over one year. But over the past five months, she has had increasingly...
Endoscopic View of Pseudomembranous Colitis
A 26 year-old man, who was under course of antibiotic therapy underwent a watery diarrhea and sepsis. Typical pseudomembranes adherent to the colonic mucosa in antibiotic-associated colitis. The...
Pseudomembranous Colitis
A 43 year-old woman, Suffering of deformed rheumatoid arthritis, underwent a cholecystectomy. Broad-spectrum antibiotics were administered, and one week after she was released from the hospital, she...
Rectum (30 of 30)
(Third Look) Pseudomembranous colitis was first described in 1893 when a patient with severe diarrhea was found to have "diphtheritic colitis" at autopsy. The condition was attributed to mucosal...
Rectum (28 of 30)
Unproven therapies Tapering course of standard antimicrobials Yeast (Saccharomyces boulardii) with AB Cholestyramine Lactobacillus acidophilus Nontoxigenic C. difficile (oral) Bacterial enemas Rectal...
Rectum (27 of 30)
Confusing Terminology Antibiotic-associated diarrhea C. difficile is only one cause Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea diarrhea + positive stool test Clostridium difficile colitis underlying pathologic...
Rectum (25 of 30)
In spite of twenty days of treatment and improvement of the symptoms there are some ulcerated lesions in phase of remission.
Rectum (24 of 30)
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality among elderly hospitalized patients. A small but increasing number of patients have developed fulminant CDI, and...
Rectum (22 of 30)
(Third Colonoscopy) Again a follow up endoscopy Smaller plaques, but already confluent.
Rectum (21 of 30)
Practically most of the Pseudomembranes have been disappeared observing most of the lesion are in phase of remission. Toxic megacolon is well-established as an unusual presentation of C. difficile...
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Michael Hawke
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Gastroenterology Atlas
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SAGES - Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
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Orthopaedic Academy
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World Health Summit
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