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This 78-year-old female, diabetic due to a cat bit in her distal leg develop a celulitis, her family practice physician prescribed clindamycin therapy, one week after was hospitalized because of watery...
Pseudomembranous Colitis (8 of 11)
Typical pseudomembranes adherent to the colonic mucosa in antibiotic-associated colitis. The illness occurs after a course of broad-spectrum antibiotics, which permit overgrowth of the bacteria Clostridium...
Pseudomembranous Colitis (7 of 11)
The presence of pseudomembranes is virtually diagnostic of pseudomembranous colitis. In general, colonoscopy is superior to sigmoidoscopy because in 10% of patients, pseudomembranous colitis is rectosigmoid-sparing....
Pseudomembranous Colitis (6 of 11)
As soon as pseudomembranous colitis is suspected, the implicated antibacterial should be withdrawn, symptomatic treatment of diarrhea started and specific antibacterial therapy initiated. The diagnosis...
Pseudomembranous Colitis (5 of 11)
Clostridium difficile-associated pseudomembranous colitis is an increasingly common nosocomial infection that usually responds to oral antibiotics. Two antibacterials have been shown to be effective...
Pseudomembranous Colitis (4 of 11)
Image of Typical Pseudomembranes The frequency of pseudomembranous colitis with potential fatal outcome is underestimated especially in elderly patients. Proton pump inhibitors appear to increase...
Pseudomembranous Colitis (3 of 11)
Endoscopic Image of Pseudomembranous Colitis Colonoscopy in skilled hands is safe,the risk of perforation is not very great in the early stages of Pseudomembranous colitis with less severe mucosal...
Pseudomembranous Colitis (2 of 11)
This endoscopic image has a characteristic appearance, with yellow adherent plaques 2–10 mm. demonstrating multiple yellowish patches ("pseudomembranes") and erythematous, friable mucosa. Pseudomembranous...
Pseudomembranous Colitis (1 of 11)
This 90-year-old male was hospitalized with dysnea, edema of bilateral pretibial edema, reactive arthritis and tenosynovitis, malaise and rectal mucoid sanguinolent discharge, the WBC count of 43.250...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (70 of 110)
Mural thickening is a common manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease; in general, however, ulcerative colitis produces less wall thickening than does Crohn disease.
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (69 of 110)
Another picture of the surgical specimen from the rectosigmoid juntion to the terminal ilium.
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (68 of 110)
The clinical severity of ulcerative colitis depends on both the length of colon involved and the severity of colonic inflammation. The symptomatic criteria most commonly used to define the severity...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (67 of 110)
Pseudopolyps are seen here in a case of severe ulcerative colitis. The remaining mucosa has been ulcerated away and is hyperemic. A colonoscopic view of active ulcerative colitis, but not so eroded...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (66 of 110)
Approach to the pseudopolyps and the extensive ulcers At higher magnification, the pseudopolyps can be seen clearly as raised red islands of inflamed mucosa. Between the pseudopolyps is only remaining...
Multiple Rectal Ulcers (65 of 110)
The opened resected specimen of the colon with dilatation and extensive ulcerations and pseudopolyposis. Inflammation with ulcerative colitis tends to be continuous along the mucosal surface and tends...
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