Fulminant Clostridium difficile colitis: patterns of care and predictors of mortality
Abstract
Despite awareness and treatment, fulminant C difficile colitis remains a highly lethal disease. Reliable predictors of mortality exist and should be used to prompt aggressive surgical intervention. Survival rates are higher in patients who were cared for by surgical vs nonsurgical departments, possi …
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCBI
NLM
MEDLINE
humans
pubmed abstract
nih
national institutes of health
national library of medicine
treatment outcome
research support
non-u.s. gov't
female
male
N.I.H.
Extramural
age factors
aged
risk factors
Retrospective Studies
multivariate analysis
hospital mortality
survival rate
predictive value of tests
massachusetts / epidemiology
intensive care units / statistics & numerical data
clostridium infections / mortality*
enterocolitis
pseudomembranous / microbiology*
clostridioides difficile*
heart failure / complications
pmid:19451485
doi:10.1001/archsurg.2009.51
elizabeth a sailhamer
katherine carson
george c velmahos
clostridium infections / surgery*
colectomy*
pseudomembranous / mortality*
pseudomembranous / surgery*
leukocytosis / complications
leukopenia / complications
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