Early diagnosis and antibiotic treatment for fulminant Clostridium difficile infection

Kazutaka Fukushima; Ryota Inokuchi; Ichiro Hirayama; Takahiro Hiruma; Kent Doi

doi:10.1002/ccr3.3613

Clinical Case Reports (Feb 2021)

Early diagnosis and antibiotic treatment for fulminant Clostridium difficile infection

Kazutaka Fukushima,
Ryota Inokuchi,
Ichiro Hirayama,
Takahiro Hiruma,
Kent Doi

Affiliations

Kazutaka Fukushima: Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine The University of Tokyo Hospital Bunkyo‐ku Japan
Ryota Inokuchi: Department of Health Services Research Faculty of Medicine University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Japan
Ichiro Hirayama: Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine The University of Tokyo Hospital Bunkyo‐ku Japan
Takahiro Hiruma: Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine The University of Tokyo Hospital Bunkyo‐ku Japan
Kent Doi: Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine The University of Tokyo Hospital Bunkyo‐ku Japan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3613
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 2
pp. 729 – 731

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Abstract In fulminant Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), early diagnosis is important, and early diagnosis could save fulminant CDI patients that do not qualify for surgery due to severe complicating conditions by conservative antibiotic therapy.

Published in Clinical Case Reports

ISSN: 2050-0904 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20500904

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