ALLMedicine™ Toxic Megacolon Center

Jul 15th, 2021 - Inflammatory bowel diseases are gaining more interest in the past few years. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic disease that requires accurate follow-up for a good treatment plan. Colonoscopy alone cannot be efficient to detect disease extent an...

May 25th, 2021 - Antibiotic-associated diarrhea and Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) occur frequently among adults. The pathophysiology of CDI is related to disruption of normal gut flora and risk factors include hospitalization, use of antibiotic therapy,...

May 6th, 2021 - Gastrointestinal tract duplication is a rare congenial anomaly which can be found anywhere along the gastrointestinal tract. While many patients are incidentally diagnosed during operation, in some cases it can present with severe gastrointestinal...

Mar 5th, 2021 - To study the association between detection of the Clostridioides difficile gene encoding the binary toxin (CDT) and direct detection of toxinB (TcdB) from feces with the appearance of serious disease, complications, or recurrence in a prospective ...

Jan 21st, 2021 - Clostridioides difficile is a bacterial pathogen that causes a range of clinical disease from mild to moderate diarrhea, pseudomembranous colitis, and toxic megacolon. Typically, C. difficile infections (CDIs) occur after antibiotic treatment, whi...

Oct 31st, 2018 - Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is one of the most common nosocomial infections and is increasingly seen in non-hospitalized patients. Although more than 90% of patients have symptom resolution with a course of standard antimicrobial therapy...

Mar 15th, 2018 - Documentation of patient is performed by using the web-based survey platform www.ClinicalSurveys.net which was set up by researchers of the University Hospital of Cologne. This survey platform enables an optimal performance in epidemiological, obs...

Aug 21st, 2017 - Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic idiopathic relapsing-remitting or continuously active inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) which almost exclusively affects the colonic mucosa. Acute severe flares of UC may lead onto potential lethal complications...

Jun 29th, 2017 - To investigate microbiology and/or drug resistance patterns related to: Geographical region, Source of IAI, Upper GI tract perforation (stomach & duodenum), Lower GI tract perforation (jejunum, ileum, colon, rectum), Primary peritonitis, Peritonea...

Apr 7th, 2017 - Hirschsprung's disease is a complex genetic disorder. The etiology of this disease is not completely understood. It is characterized by the absence of ganglia (nerve cells) in de distal colon. This impairs bowel relaxation which can lead to bowel ...

Oct 31st, 2019 - Two patients who received fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) in clinical trials contracted extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing (ESBL) Escherichia coli bacteremia, and one of them died, according to a report published online October 5 in the ...

Jul 12th, 2018 - UC is a surgically curable disease. However, CD can involve any segment of the GI tract from the mouth to the anus; surgical resection is not curative, as recurrence is the norm. In addition, repeated need for surgery and bowel resection may resul...

Jun 29th, 2018 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved topical glycopyrronium (Qbrexza, Dermira) for the treatment of adults and children as young as age 9 years who have primary axillary hyperhidrosis. Qbrexza is a topical anticholinergic cloth a...

Mar 9th, 2018 - Emergencies require quicker decisions. In ulcerative colitis, emergency cases may include toxic megacolon, perforated colon, or obstruction from either a stricture or cancer, as well as bleeding in rare cases.

1-28-2020 Comunicación de la FDA sobre la seguridad de los medicamentos ¿Qué preocupación relativa a la seguridad está anunciando la FDA? La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (Food and Drug Administration, FDA) está reforzando una adverte...