Clostridium difficile colitis causing toxic megacolon, severe sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
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.
Giles
G
Dobson
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, BT16 1RH, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Caroline
C
Hickey
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, BT16 1RH, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
John
J
Trinder
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