title: Current Status of the Treatment of Fulminant Colitis.
abstract: Fulminant colitis is not a well-defined entity, that constitutes a severe complication. It usually occurs in the course of úlcerative colitis and Clostridium difficile colitis. A multidisciplinary management combining gastroenterologist and surgeons is crucial with intensive medical treatment and early surgery in non-responders. It is important to distinguish if we are facing a flare of IBD or, on the contrary, it is an infectious colitis, due to the fact that although general therapeutic measures to adopt will be the same, they will demand opposed specific measures.
authors: Servicio de Cirugía General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Torrecárdenas, Almería, España. Electronic address: Manuferrer78@hotmail.com.
authors: Manuel
authors: M
authors: Ferrer Márquez
authors: Servicio de Digestivo, Hospital Torrecárdenas, Almería, España.
authors: Álvaro
authors: Á
authors: Hernández Martínez
authors: Servicio de Cirugía General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Torrecárdenas, Almería, España.
authors: Ángel
authors: Á
authors: Reina Duarte
authors: Servicio de Cirugía General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Torrecárdenas, Almería, España.
authors: Rafael
authors: R
authors: Rosado Cobián
mesh_terms: D003015:Clostridium Infections; D003092:Colitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
keywords: Clostridium; Colectomy; Colectomía; Colitis fulminante; Colitis ulcerosa; Fulminant colitis; Ulcerative colitis