Pseudomembranous Colitis (1 of 11)

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Case description

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 43.250 103/μL with 99% neutrofils. Approximately 4 weeks earlier, he had started a 10-day course of a third-generation cephalosporin for pneumonia. An abdominal computed tomographic scan showed diffuse thickening of the colonic wall with pericolonic inflammation of the transverse and cecum, at endoscopy found this images and video clips here presented.

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