Clostridium difficile

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Clostridium difficile: Infection, Impact and...

Specialty:  Infectious Diseases
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Clostridium difficile infection is a serious condition that can lead to colon destruction. In this virtual lecture, Michael Miller, PhD, Microbiology Technical Services, LLC, talks about what the organism...

Pseudomembranous Colitis

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The following video shows the pseudomembranous colitis caused by Clostridium difficile.

Endoscopic View of Pseudomembranous Colitis

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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

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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...

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(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 (29 of 30)

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(Third Colonoscopy)

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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)

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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 (26 of 30)

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There are still some raised reddened lesions with scanty Pseudomembranes.

Rectum (25 of 30)

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In spite of twenty days of treatment and improvement of the symptoms there are some ulcerated lesions in phase of remission.