Recurrent Clostridium difficile-associated colitis responding to cholestyramine.
We describe a patient with relapses of Clostridium difficile cytotoxin-positive pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) after treatment with vancomycin, a course of metronidazole and a trial of bacitracin. She remains free of disease after a prolonged course of cholestyramine. We suggest there may be a role for anion-exchange resins in patients with PMC relapsing after vancomycin therapy.
D000328:Adult; D002792:Cholestyramine Resin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence
D002792:Cholestyramine Resin