Le cas clinique du mois. Colite a clostridium difficile.

Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use; Clostridium difficile/isolation & purification; Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous/diagnosis/drug therapy; Humans; Immunocompromised Host; Male; Middle Aged; Peritonitis/drug therapy/microbiology

Abstract :

[en] A 55-year-old patient with mant e cels underwent a cytotoxic chemotherapy (D.H.A.P. + Rituximab). During the medullar aplasia related to the third cycle, diarrhoea due to Clostridium difficile arised and relapsed 15 days later despite normal blood counts. This colitis was very severe with pluribacterial peritonitis, but resolved with intensive medical treatment. The incidence, the patient's risk factors, the iatrogenic and nosocomial characters of cl. difficile colitis are discussed.

Disciplines :

Radiology, nuclear medicine & imaging

Author, co-author :

Laret, Vinciane ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Cardiologie

Sion, C.

Bataille, Christian; Centre Hospitalier Régional de Huy - CHRH > Service de gastro-entérologie

Hustinx, Roland ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Médecine nucléaire

Reginster, Michel

Language :

French

Title :

Le cas clinique du mois. Colite a clostridium difficile.

Alternative titles :

[en] Clinical case of the month: clostridium difficile colitis

Publication date :

2006

Journal title :

Revue Médicale de Liège

ISSN :

0370-629X

eISSN :

2566-1566

Publisher :

Université de Liège. Revue Médicale de Liège, Liège, Belgium

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

750-2

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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