Combination of oral vancomycin and intra-colonic vancomycin: Successful treatment of complicated pseudomembranous colitis in a child patient

dc.authorid0000-0001-7430-8452en_US
dc.authorid0000-0003-2097-2950en_US
dc.contributor.authorBozkurt, Huseyin Sancar
dc.contributor.authorKara, Banu
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T21:53:19Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T21:53:19Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.departmentMaltepe Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe Clostridium difficile infection-related disease varies from mild diarrhoea to pseudomembranouscolitis. Although C. difficile infection is commonly considered to be a hospital-acquired infection, a significant number of cases are community acquired. Community-acquired C. difficile infection can exhibit itself as ileus or toxic megacolon. Severe C. difficile infection that is unresponsive to intravenous metronidazole therapy requires more aggressive medical management and even surgical intervention. We present our case results for which vancomycin was administered both orally and intra-colonically. With this method, we treated the community acquired C. difficile infection patient who was presented as ileus.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/2050313X19838442
dc.identifier.issn2050-313X
dc.identifier.pmid30911393en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ4en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X19838442
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/8473
dc.identifier.volume7en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000461771000001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAGE PUBLICATIONS INCen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSAGE OPEN MEDICAL CASE REPORTSen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.snmzKY03375
dc.subjectPseudomembranouscolitisen_US
dc.subjectileusen_US
dc.subjectintracolonic vancomycinen_US
dc.titleCombination of oral vancomycin and intra-colonic vancomycin: Successful treatment of complicated pseudomembranous colitis in a child patienten_US
dc.typeArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication

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