Case 35-2000
| Autor: | Robert Udelsman, Henry Y. Dong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 343:1477-1483 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| DOI: | 10.1056/nejm200011163432008 |
| Popis: | Presentation of Case An 82-year-old woman was admitted to the ambulatory care center because of bilateral adrenal masses and low-grade fever. The patient had been in good health until five months earlier, when myalgia developed, with a vague headache and a temperature of 37.2°C. A physician prescribed ciprofloxacin because of scheduled cataract surgery. A week later, the patient began to pass three or more loose stools daily, without bleeding. A stool specimen contained Clostridium difficile toxin; another antibiotic was prescribed, and a repeated test for C. difficile toxin was negative. The diarrhea subsided. The cataract extraction was uneventful, and she . . . |
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