Fulminant Clostridium difficile colitis: patterns of care and predictors of mortality

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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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Authors Sailhamer EA;Carson K;Chang Y;Zacharias N;Spaniolas K;Tabbara M;Alam HB;DeMoya MA;Velmahos GC;;
Journal Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
Year 2009
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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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