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Case Reports
. 2008:2008:985658.
doi: 10.1155/2008/985658. Epub 2009 Feb 1.

Fulminant Clostridium difficile enteritis after proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastamosis

Elena Boland  1 , Jon S Thompson
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Case Reports

Fulminant Clostridium difficile enteritis after proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anastamosis

Elena Boland et al. Gastroenterol Res Pract. 2008.

Abstract

Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection of the small bowel is very rare. The disease course is more severe than that of C. difficile colitis, and the mortality is high. We present a case of C. difficile enteritis in a patient with ileal pouch-anal anastamosis (IPAA), and review previous case reports in order to better characterize this unusual condition.

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Figure 1
Flexible endoscopy of pelvic pouch demonstrating copious amounts of mucus with adherent pseudomembranes throughout the pouch and distal small bowel, consistent with C. difficile infection.
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