Adjunctive Intracolonic Vancomycin for Severe Clostridium difficile Colitis: Case Series and Review of the Literature

Successful treatment of severe Clostridium difficile colitis has been reported with the use of adjunctive intracolonic vancomycin (ICV) therapy. We report a descriptive case series and review the literature on patients with C. difficile colitis who received adjunctive ICV therapy. Nine patients rece...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical infectious diseases 2002-09, Vol.35 (6), p.690-696
Hauptverfasser:	Apisarnthanarak, Anucha, Razavi, Behzad, Mundy, Linda M.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abdominal pain Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Antibacterial agents Antibiotics Antibiotics. Antiinfectious agents. Antiparasitic agents Bacterial diseases Bacterial diseases of the digestive system and abdomen Biological and medical sciences Clostridium difficile Colitis Colitis - diagnostic imaging Colitis - drug therapy Colitis - physiopathology Cytotoxins Diarrhea Dosage Drug Administration Routes Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - diagnostic imaging Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous - drug therapy Epidemiology Female Human bacterial diseases Humans Ileus Infections Infectious diseases Major Articles Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Pharmacology. Drug treatments Radiography Risk Factors Treatment Outcome Vancomycin - therapeutic use
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