Pseudomembranous Colitis due to Clostridium <I>difficile</I> and the New Therapeutic Approach
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- KURATSUJI Tadatoshi
- Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine Yamato City Hospital
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- YAMADA Kaneo
- Department of Pediatrics, St. Mrianna University School of Medicine
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- OIKAWA Tadao
- Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine
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- FUKUMOTO Tetsuo
- Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine
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- SHIMIZU Shunichi
- Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine
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- IWASAKI Yukio
- Yamato City Hospital
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- TAKIZAWA Kinjiro
- Department of Bacteriology and Pathology, Kanagawa Prefecture Public Health Laboratory
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- ASAI Yoshio
- Department of Bacteriology and Pathology, Kanagawa Prefecture Public Health Laboratory
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- <I>Clostridium difficile</I>の分離された偽膜性腸炎の1例とその治療について
- Clostridium difficileの分離された偽膜性腸炎の1例とその治療について
- Clostridium difficile ノ ブンリサレタ ギマクセイ チョ
- Pseudomembranous Colitis due to Clostridium difficile and the New Therapeutic Approach
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A case of pseudomembranous colitis due to Clostridium difficile and the new th erapeutic approach.<BR>A 5 year 7 months old Japanese girl has been in good health untile 5 days before admission when she started to complain of abdominal pain, high fever, vomiting and generalized convulsion. The initial clinical impression was septicemia. She was given ampicillin 100 mg/kg and gentamycin 5 mg/kg. On the 5th hospital day severe colic and watery stools with blo od developed. The leukocytecount was 15, 400/cmm with 90% neutrophiles. The hemoglobin was 10.4 g/dl, serum protain 3.8 g/dl and albumin 1.99 g/dl. Blood and albumin transfusions were performed but the hypoalb uminemia and anemia persisted. The Gordon test was 2.8%. An X-ray film of the abdomen showed thumbprinting, and a scintigram of abdomen ruled out hemorrhagc gastroduodenitis and Meckel's diverticulitis. The proctosigmoidoscopy revealed an edemato us mucosa with white-yellow plaques indicating PMC. Administration of antibiotics was stopped. The plasma FDP was above 40 μg/ml and the thrombocyte count remained 30.5 × 104/cmm. The plasma factor XIII level was 42%, but the plasma plasmin activity, fibrinogen, bleeding time, coagulation time were normal<BR>A total of 1250 units (5 vials) of factor XIII concentrate (Behringwe rke-Hoechst) was administered in 3 days. The abdominal pains subsided and the bowel movement became normal.<BR>Clostridium difficile of over 108/g were found in the stool on the 7th hospital day. Heat labile enterotoxin to the mouse Y-1 adrenal cell was also demonstrated<BR>These results suggests that treatment with factor XIII offers a new possibility of controlling severe hemorrhagic diarrhea in antibiotics-associated PMC.
Journal
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- Kansenshogaku Zasshi
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Kansenshogaku Zasshi 54 (9), 518-524, 1980
The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
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- CRID
- 1390001205050950784
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- NII Article ID
- 130004328663
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- NII Book ID
- AN00047715
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- COI
- 1:STN:280:DyaL3M3hs1ynsA%3D%3D
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- ISSN
- 1884569X
- 03875911
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- NDL BIB ID
- 2223650
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- PubMed
- 6787148
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- JaLC
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