Clostridium difficile colitis causing toxic megacolon, severe sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Dobson
Giles
G
Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia, Department of Clinical Anaesthesia, The Royal Group of Hospitals, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 68A, Northern Ireland. gtdobson@hotmail.com.|Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, BT16 1RH, Belfast, Northern Ireland. gtdobson@hotmail.com.
Hickey
Caroline
C
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, BT16 1RH, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Trinder
John
J
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, BT16 1RH, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
D000368:Aged; D016360:Clostridioides difficile; D003082:Colectomy / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008532:Megacolon, Toxic / Q000382:microbiology*; D009102:Multiple Organ Failure / Q000382:microbiology*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000382:microbiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed